Yeah, I understand that it's a loaded question. I was just wondering if anyone here had tried it before. After I get my DVD images complete and tested, I'm going to try it.
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Andre Rodovalho <[email protected]> wrote: > Nobody will answer you for sure. Even if you contact Windows support... > Give it a try. If you have any problems, you restore that. Better now that > you have nothing on your Windows than later... > > PS: Windows 7 requires 20GB for 64bits architecture. > > 2014-10-03 20:26 GMT-03:00 "J. Van Brimmer" <[email protected]>: > >> 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<- >> >> -- >> Lubuntu-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users >> >> > -- ->Jerry<-
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