Partition Software for 64 bit.

I have Win 7 64 bit. I have tried downloading a couple of things from this site but they won't install due to being 64 bit.

Any suggestions? Gotta be free.

I'm basically looking for something that will allow me to take my existing C drive and partition it so I can install Ubuntu without destroying my Win 7 partition.

 

Have tried to shrink your Win 7 partition using Win 7's own disk management?

 

Link to help with Earthling's question
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2672-partition-volume-shrink.html?ltr=P

 

Nope, and after reading this, I feel stupid...Sorry for the dumb question. :cool

 

Well don't, you learned something new today - hope I do too :cool

 

I learned that collinsj has the best avatar on this site.

 

Thank you very much, but it is collinsl (L)

I would also recommend gparted. It is a program where you can boot from CD, so it is OS independent and very reliable in my opinion.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

 

Yes Herr Flick!

 

Shrunk volume is all I needed to do. Now I have Ubuntu on a 100 Gig partition.

Now, if I want to delete that partition and reclaim everything under C, would I just dleeted the partitions, and then extend volume right?

 

Wrong I believe you will need to install a partition manager to get rid of the Linux partitions as Windows Disk Management probably won't see them at all. And as you are using 64 bit you might have to pay for it too, as the free ones atm only handle 32 bit. Someone will come up with an answer to that though - a boot disk probably.

 

o.k. I did this at home on my 32 bit, so I think the suggestion earlier should work. Thanks!

 

It isn't a 32 or 64 bit issue, it's that Windows can't see Linux partitions so it can't remove them. The 32/64 thing merely applies to disk partitioning programs - the 32 bit ones are free at present, but not the 64s'

 

Which free program do you recommend then for 32 bit when I'm ready to dump that partition and recover it from the Linux part.

 

Disk management sees the linux partitions as unknown, just rht-click on the the drive and delete it. Then you can format it or leave it raw. BTW, you will still need to get rid of the 'Grub' loader and you can do this by staring up your Win disk, enter repair options and run the following command

Code:

bootrec /fixmbr

, this will get rid of the now useless dual-boot screen. No need to spend any money.

 

EasyBcd will do you nicely as a Boot Manager for Win 7

http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1