hello, just delete the HP_Tools partition as it is not important for users and one thing which is important if you are supposing to reduce sda2 it ia a good idea .
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Alok Singh Mahor <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi everyone, > I have to install Linux on one friends laptop without wasting time in > backing up or moving data here and there. > > the hard disk scene is > > /dev/sda > /dev/sda1 of about 100MB which is part of window 7 installation > /dev/sda2 of about 300GB which contains window 7 OS, have lot of free > space > /dev/sda3 of about 10GB which is recovery drive > /dev/sda4 of about 100MB which is HP_TOOLS > > I will use free space from sda2. but 4 primary partitions are already > created so I cant create new partition. > > earlier I used to convince people to delete Recovery partition as they had > C/DVD's of window and drivers > > but some people dont have CD/DVS's of window and drivers so I have to take > long time to decide what should I do in this case as I dont want to waste > my time in creating recovery DVD's for them. > > do anyone have idea how much HP_TOOLS (sda4) is significant? what if I > delete this small partition? does this drive contains something important > for laptop? > > or suggest me what should I do in such cases? > > or can we convert primary partition to extended/logical partition? > > -- > -- > Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: > http://lug-iitd.org/Footer > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Linux User Group @ IIT Delhi" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Linux User Group @ IIT Delhi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
