Thanks for your notes, John, very interesting. What I am primarily curious about is that the Windows partitioner will only shrink C to about 50% of it's original size, Gparted says I can shrink it down a lot more. I was just wondering, if I did that with Gparted, will that clobber Windows.
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:23 AM, John Hupp <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/3/2014 1:30 PM, "J. Van Brimmer" wrote: > > Hello, > > I have just acquired a "new" refurbished Lenovo X140e netbook. tI has > Windows 7 Pro on it. The first thing I did after booting it up was to go > into Partition Management to shrink the C partition to make room for > Lubuntu. I was shocked to discover that the partition manager would only > shrink C by 50%. So, I went ahead and did that. > > Then, I booted up a live CD of Gparted. Gparted says I can shrink C way down > a lot more. I don't remember how far it was, but it was way down, less than > 100 GB. > > Can I safely follow Gparted's recommendation and not impact Winbroke? I am > not too terribly worried about it though. I am going to create a restore > image DVD, but I just thought I'd ask to see if anyone has any experience on > this before I get started. > > Thanks, > > -- > ->Jerry<- > > > I set up dual-boot on a Lenovo 3000 C200 laptop running Vista. My notes: > > Rescue and Recovery hidden system folder C:\RRbackups is unmovable by any > defrag program I tried and keeps me from further shrinking the Windows > partition more than an initial 30 GB. > > Lenovo forum notes that the folder and/or its contents may be reliably > removed under any Live CD. > > Current RRbackups folder size: 14.0 GB (probably holds a system image I did > at some point). Delete folder under Lubuntu Live. > > This triggered Installing device driver software at next Vista boot. No > Unknown Devices when done. > > There was still an unmovable $UsnJrnl file near the end of the partition. > From an elevated command prompt, I deleted it with: > fsutil usn deletejournal /n c: > It will eventually be recreated. > > I shrank the Windows partition to 53GB, leaving 25GB free there, and 53GB > for Lubuntu. > > [I don't have explicit notes about what partition tool I was using at each > shrink. I may have started with the Windows tool and finished with > Gparted.] -- ->Jerry<- -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
