I suggest trying ubuntu, give it a shot, it is a great alternative to Windows, and it is FREE!! I will focus on partitioning the SD card, but I will also cover how to get a simple and easy dual boot of windows and ubuntu going on your machine.
1. Install Wubi, get it here, May take some time, depending on how fast the download goes.
2.When you restart your PC, it will prompt for the basic Ubuntu setup, (time zone stuff like that.)
4. Now go to the ubuntu apps menu and there is something along line of Add or Remove Applications, open this.
5. Use the search bar at the top and search for "gparted". Install this.
6. Now that Gparted is installed go to the apps menu>accessories>command Line. Open command line.
7. Type "sudo gparted" without the quotes. when you type sudo gparted you will be prompted for your admin password, the password will not show as you type it.
8. Click the drop down box to select your sd card. (NOTE - make sure to select your card and not your computer hard drive. Easy way to tell is if you have a 8 gig card choose the one that is 8 gigs. Common Sense)
9. Your sd card will now be displayed. If you already had it partitioned you will see the partitions. Or if it is a brand new card it will say unallocated.
10. If you already have a partition or partitions on it right click each partition and choose unmount. Do that for every partition until you see the keys gone beside the partitions.
11. Right click every partition and choose delete until all partitions are gone and it says unallocated.
12. Right click unallocated and choose new.
13. A box will appear to create your first partition. Create your Fat32 partition first. Click the drop down box and click Fat32. Choose the size you want to make it (I just subtract 1000 from the number to save for my ext partition). And leave it as primary. Now click apply.
14. You will now see your Fat32 partition and unallocated.
14. Right click unallocated again and choose new.
15. This time we will set up our ext partition. Click the drop down box and choose ext2 or ext3. You can leave the size alone and make sure it is also on primary. Click apply.
16. If you are wanting to you can create the linux_swap partition to but it is not necessary.
17. You are now back at the box with Fat32, ext2/3, linux_swap and unallocated. Now click apply. A confirmation box will appear and click apply again.
18. It will format your card and then you are done.
19. You can now click the power icon in the upper right hand corner to turn off Ubuntu and restart into windows.
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