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sda1 is blank, I usually put Grub on it but haven't done so yet. Right now sda2 has Grub and Arch Linux. I'm willing to do work, but the Win7 install is relatively fresh. I could redo everything in just a couple hours after the install. The issue is that my laptop (Acer Aspire 4530) requires...

What drive are you saying to reformat? Are you suggesting that I reformat and then reinstall? Good idea, I should've initially done that. Here's my fdisk -l : Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280...

That's what's odd in my case. The partition I have to boot W& from has 100 MB of Windows-related stuff. There's no boot-related files on the W7 partition. It's as if the installer decided to use an existing partition as the 100MB partition it wanted to create. Any ideas on how to merge my boot...

I hadn't formatted the partition first. I had to delete the existing partition, recreate it, and format it from the installer. XP wasn't already installed, it was formatted as ext3.

It was a clean install. All partitions are 40GB in size, the way I originally created them. It boots from partition 3, while W7 is actually installed on partition 5. Partition 3 has the following files: $RECYCLE.BIN BOOTSECT.BAK Boot/ System Volume Information/ bootmgr It's like W7 decided to...

(Note: Linux knowledge not necessary, but possibly helpful.) I just installed Windows 7. I keep my laptop with several partitions, because I like to experiment with different operating systems. I had one partition in use (Linux), and several open. Partition 2 was already NTFS, Partition 3 was...