Select “Something Else”, and click “Install” or “Next” or whatever … just make sure you select “Something Else” and move to the next screen.
THEN take s screenshot.
moved on to “Something Else” then clicked “Install Now” got this error message
Click OK to get rid of that warning.
then highlight the line that reads
Free Space
and click the “+” button
Add a partition at the beginning of the free space with these parameters:
size: 100GB (100000 MB)
type: EXT4
mountpoint: /
then create another that uses the other 5gb
size: whatever’s left (5GB ?)
type: swap
Now see the drop menu at the bottom that currently says it’s going to put the bootloader on /dev/sda ?
Well that needs to say it’s going to put the bootloader on the Linux / partition (probably /dev/sda5)
(that is IMPORTANT)
Once you think you have it right … take s screenshot BEFORE proceeding with the install
if i got this right it will be a miracle
OK, that’s perfect except for the size of the swap file … 13GB is a bit large (so wasteful)
One at a time highlight sda5 and sda6 and hit the “-” symbol to delete them again.
Now recreate them as before, but make the / partition 108GB … so the swap is around 5gb
also amke sure thee bootloader reads as it does now … the / partition (/dev/sda5)
then take a screenshot again BEFORE continuing
Once more
That’ll do nicely 
OK, click “Install Now”
When the install is finished and you reboot you’ll still only be able to boot into Windows … so boot Win7 and download and install EasyBCD from the link I provided earlier.
Meanwhile I’ll go make a coffee
Ok it’s installing now
How easy this would have been if we didn’t have to pander to the Windows obsession
heh … tell me about it
On second thoughts…
Having a slight problen I booted into Windows and logged into Linux uk but when I click on to the thread I sent straight to a Yahoo search engine so I downloaded your link on my PC onto a flash drive plugged it into the Netbook and when I click to install I told it’s not a valid Win32 application
I have an earlier version That I uninstalled I can re-install it if you want ?
Best work with the same 2.2 version
Here’s a link if you need one
http://files1.majorgeeks.com/e5815151957be36ad2085b7a1a02c5cc/admin/EasyBCD%202.2.exe
or click one of thee links here:
OK EasyBCD is installed now
Fire up EasyBCD 2.2 (say yes to the UAC warning)
on the left select “Add New Entry”
On the right, selct the “Linux/BSD” tab
Type: GRUB 2
Name: Peppermint 4
Drive: (probably partition 4 or 5 … the one that says(Linux - 108 GiB))
click the “Add Entry” button.
Close EasyBCD and reboot (watch the screen during boot because you should be ofered a choice of Windows 7 /Peppermint 4 with Windows 7 hightlighted, but it’ll only stay on screen for 19 secionds before automatically booting Windows 7, so use the down arrow to select Peppermint 4 and hit enter to boot)… was Peppermint 4 offered and did it boot ?
Be aware, selecting Peppermint 4 will take you to the GRUB screen … but we can get rid of that later if you wish, so it just boots straight into Pepperrmint without the delay at the GRUB screen.
if it works, you may want to consider uninstalling EasyBCD from Windows (uninstalling it will NOT undo the changes it made) … or at least removing any desktop shortcuts and telling her to steer clear of it
But before you uninstall it would you prefer to make Peppermint the default OS, or leave Windows as the default ? (the OS that will boot if the user doesn’t intervene)
I don’t have "Drive " option i have “Device” but I cant alter that as it says (automatically configured) and I don’t see this option “Use EasyBCD’s copy of GRUB”
Will I continue to reboot ?
Where it says
Automaticall locate and load
is that a drop menu ?
if so is there an entry that says “Partition 4 (Linux - 108GiB)” ?
Hold on I have 2.1.2
hang on I’ll try sort this out
Ok I got the right version now it says at the bottom I have the latest version, I’ can follow your instructions but I don’t see “Use EasyBCD’s copy of GRUB”
Ignore what I said about that … that only displays if you choose GRUB (legacy)
I’ll take that out of the original instructions too
Looking good I have 2 entries for Peppermint 4 but I selected one of them and it led me to a grub menu I selected Peppermint 4 and it’s booted,
I’ll try windows and report back
OK it’s booting into Windows no problem