1 TB hdd and no space to create a partition for linux !

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Published on 2010-04-02T16:31:16Z Indexed on 2010/04/02 16:33 UTC
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I have a brand new Acer aspire 5811 with core i5 processor and all that.

There is windows 7 Home Premium pre-installed on it. I want to install arch and setup a dual boot system.

The problem is:

Windows shows 4 partitions

14 MB UNKNOWN recovery partition
100MB NTFS System Reserved partition for Windows 7
448GB NTFS Windows 7 system partition
468GB NTFS Data partition for windows 7

But GpartedLive cd and also arch setup show 5 partitions

938Kb UNKOWN system reserved partition
14 MB UNKNOWN recovery partition
100MB NTFS System Reserved partition for Windows 7
448GB NTFS Windows 7 system partition
468GB unusable space

Because of this, I cannot create another primary partition.

Can any body guide me about how should I go for creating partition for installing arch ?

Note: I need to keep windows 7 working.

regards.

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