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Install Windows 7 and Fedora 18 x64 dual-boot

NOTE:  Currently this post is easily my most disorganized to date.  There is a ton of information here, and unfortunately I'm not exactly sure what data is important, or not - and I can't explain how things work.  The significant positive point is that it does work. ;-) I can't believe it is even necessary to document this.  After 30 years of PCs they continue to make things pointlessly difficult and challenging. I have an Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon with a 240 GB SSD.  Windows 7 is amusing and all, but I really prefer Linux.  Between UEFI, Secure Boot, GPT, etc... this has proved to be much more challenging than I had initially anticipated.  I guess the point that will exemplify my frustration - I don't know why I need all these stupid partitions, restore partitions.  I really did not have much of an issue with a BIOS and 4 partition drive to run my 2 OSes. This method will rely on the Fedora Grub boot loader.  I am not sure i...