On 10/3/2014 2:32 PM, "J. Van Brimmer" wrote:
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.
I don't remember if I ran Gparted (to see what it would report) when the Windows tool balked, so I'm not able to respond directly to the question.
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.]
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