Fedora 17 install dualboot with Windows 7 Home Premium goes nowhere

[Jim]

On 10/09/2012 10:32 PM, JD wrote:
>
> On 10/09/2012 07:10 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>> Friends,
>>
>> After years of providing services to students for free in installing
>> Fedora, I hit a wall this afternoon and don't quite know how to get out
>> of it.
>>
>> The offending laptop is a HP Pavilion DV6 with Windows 7 Home Premium
>> on it. We paritioned the HDD using Windows 7 creating a separate
>> partition and went off to install Fedora on the new partition from a
>> Live CD. Installation went off as a breeze, however, after reboot all
>> hell broke loose.
>>
>> Grub did not show up, what is worse is that a broken Windows Error
>> Recovery did with the Launch Startup Repair, etc. However, it asks for
>> the original installation disc for Windows 7 which the retailer never
>> provided.
>>
>> I tried using PW o fix the MBR as mentioned here:
>> http://www.sevenforums.com/software/135486-how-do-i-repair-mbr-without-disk.html 
>>
>>
>> but no luck: it goes back to this screen.
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to fix this? I feel
>> embarrassed and responsible for this student's fancy laptop now. He
>> needs to have W7 to use the BluRay so we were thinking of a dual boot
>> originally, but at this point, I am trying to salvage whatever.
>>
>> Ranjan
>>
>>
> You need to contact HP and they will provide you
> with the recovery windows DVD. I have run into a similar problem.
> After fixing your windows, your Linux Grub will be
> overwritten, and windows booter will be in place.
>
> I suggest that you download and install the Fedora normal ISO:
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/17/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-17-i386-DVD.iso 
>     < this is for 32bit
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/17/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-17-x86_64-DVD.iso 
>     < this is for 64bit
>
>
Use Gparted when resizing the Windows Partition and create two Linux 
ext4 partitions , /  40% and /home 60%  of unallocated space

When installing Fedora 17 use the Customize method and then Edit the two 
new partitions . As  / and /home , format  /   and  /home as ext4.

it also helps to have at least a  1024  swap partition.

To get Gparted do a Google search of  " Gparted Download" or goto.

  http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php