Windows 7+Fedora 17 Dual Boot help

[avirok]

I Have Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit on my 1TB HDisk. I downloaded "Fedora 17 I686 Live KDE.iso" from fedora website and burnt it into a disk.
After choosing option to shrink volume,install in free space or custom installation,i get an unhandled exception.
I wasnt able to install fedora 11 and 14 for the same reason.

[PiElle]

It would be better to post the results of:

fdisk -l

parted -l

[avirok]

Cant execute those linux commands as I dont have fedora installed yet...(didnt work on live disk load)
but i did take photos while i was trying to install(sorry if they r unclear)...

Here, in IMG 1
sda1 is C drive(windows 7 OS)
sda5 is D drive
sda6 is E drive

IMG 1 - Disk layout before installing.
IMG 2 - After opting to shrink c drive from 149900 to 100000 and the rest for fedora.
IMG 3 - The result after agreeing to install.

Details.txt is the details i copied of the Unhandled Exception.
Review Exception Data.txt is the details in the bug report.

[glennzo]

I usually create an empty, unformatted partition using some of the free space (using the Windows thingy). Then I reboot with the Fedora install disk and choose that unformatted partition as the install target.

[avirok]

What install option did u choose...bcoz,i did d same thing once b4 and chose "install in free space" and it said insufficient memory...even tho i had about 50GB unalocated. Its like it didnt accept that free space at all..

[Penguinclaw]

Download SystemRescue. It's a really light live distro and is invaluable to setting up your partitions. The application you want to use is gparted. With this you can resize windows and then set up your Linux ones; Usually "/", swap and home. It can be handy to make these under an extended partition as hard-drives are limited to only 4 physical partitions; so if you have 3 windows partitions you will not have enough left for Linux. Please make up backups of windows and consider perhaps using something like Norton Ghost (I believe there are free ones also) to mirror your windows system. If you need documentation I believe this is available from the SystemRescue site:

http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage

Hope this works for you

[gossamer]

Hi, I'd like to install Windows 7 and fc17 on my laptop that has two disks. I'd like to use one disk for Windows and one for Linux.

Should I just install Windows first, then Linux?

How do I replace the Windows boot loader with grub and still be able to boot Windows?