It has a 500Gb hard drive, but the "C" partition was only about 460Gb. When I ran the Partitoner from inside Windows, it would only shrink "C" down to 226Gb.
I just now booted up a Lubuntu live 14.04 disc and ran Gparted from inside Lubu. Gparted says I can shrink "C" down to 36.6 Gb minimum. But, I have no problem leaving it at 100 Gb. I just want to know, if I shrink it down below the 226 Gb boundary set by the Windows partitioner, will it clobber Windows? Will I have to factory restore the system just to have a running windows? I am tempted to just wipe the whole disc, but I thought if I can shrink "C" down to 100 Gb, I'd leave it there. On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Aere Greenway <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/03/2014 11:30 AM, "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<- > > > Jerry: > > I once had a Windows partition that I re-sized way down to a size that > seemed reasonable at the time. It seemed reasonable because I only use > that system for testing. > > A year or so later, that system was in-trouble because of insufficient > space. > > The culprit? The space was used up by the multitude of Windows updates. > > I had to re-size the Windows partition to a larger size to rescue the > system (which involved resizing and even moving my Linux partitions). > > So by word of experience, in re-sizing a Windows partition, be sure to > leave it room to install the many necessary Windows updates. On Windows 7 > and above, it also creates a restore-point whenever you install anything, > and those restore-points take up disk space as well. > > I do recommend keeping your Windows partition around (and usable) if you > have one. Over the years, there have been many cases where I was glad I > saved it for those occasional things that won't run on Linux, or for which > Linux has no practical alternative. > > Linux has been very reliable in re-sizing all of my Windows partitions. > In over 10 years of experience, it only failed once, and in that case, > there may have been disk errors in the Windows partition. So make sure you > do a disk check of the Windows partition before re-sizing it. > > Beware that on Windows 8, it may leave its partition in a 'suspend' > (hibernate) state, so re-sizing it could give you problems. > > -- > Sincerely, > Aere > > -- ->Jerry<-
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