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Linux Mint install on Winows 7 - 64 bit

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Having been a Ubuntu user for a while, I switched to Mint 13 recently. All was well until I had to buy a new PC which had Windows 7 - 64bit installed. It hasn't taken me long to realise how much I dislike it. So I thought I would dual boot using Mint 14 along side Windows 7. I used the Mint 14- 64 bit iso disc and got as far as the Linux Mint desktop. Everything worked great from the CD. From there I clicked on the install Mint icon on the desktop to start the dual boot install. When the install process came to choosing how much windows 7 and Mint should share of the Hard drive, I slid t (Hardware)

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Dualbooting Windows 7 And Linux Mint 12

Dualbooting means having installed two operating systems on one hard disk and being able to boot from any of them. This tutorial will explain how to install Linux Mint 12 alongside Windows 7 - the procedure however should be the same for all Ubuntu based distributions and only slightly different for every other.