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I've been reading a How To Geek article about how to dual boot 7 with 10. I did manage to download an iso of 10 which will begin installation if I change BIOS boot sequence. My problem is that when I try to shrink volume in OS(C) not enough space is offered. Thinking that I may have corrupted space in (C) I decided to restore win 7 to factory condition. I sure did: My laptop went to windows 7 home edition with a message that 185 updates were pending. Well over an hour later I was back in business. There's a happy bonus to this. Somewhere along the line I blundered into upgrade windows now and discovered that entering my update key would bring me back to windows 7 professional.
Now when I go to disk management and right click to attempt shrink volume all I am offered is a default value of 4822 MB which is 4.7 GB when 20GB is required to install 10. So here's my dilemma: The total space before shrink is 461838MB. Clicking shrink brings up 4.7 GB unallocated. Not enough for 10.
Now I chickened out and thought "how do I reverse this mess"? I tried right click on (C) and then extend volume and delete partition which brought me back to 451.0 GB where I started from.
Conceding the fact that I'm a little over my head any helpful suggestions would be appreciated.
Now when I go to disk management and right click to attempt shrink volume all I am offered is a default value of 4822 MB which is 4.7 GB when 20GB is required to install 10. So here's my dilemma: The total space before shrink is 461838MB. Clicking shrink brings up 4.7 GB unallocated. Not enough for 10.
Now I chickened out and thought "how do I reverse this mess"? I tried right click on (C) and then extend volume and delete partition which brought me back to 451.0 GB where I started from.
Conceding the fact that I'm a little over my head any helpful suggestions would be appreciated.