Yeah, I figured as much. I am looking into using clonezilla to create compressed images, then burning those to DVDs.
I really appreciate everyone who has responded. I have read all of your replies, and am cosidering all of your inputs. At this point I have, like I said before, shrunk C down to 226Gb, but I think it'll go down a lot more. I would rather let W*dows shrink itself rather than just smacking it down with Gparted. But, all options are still open. Well, here goes ... On Oct 4, 2014 6:50 AM, "John Hupp" <[email protected]> wrote: > I regard the Windows imaging tool as broken for the purpose of burning > to DVD. I think it worked in early versions of Windows 7, but then they > broke it in a later version. By the time they included the Win 7 tool in > Win 8 (!!), DVD support was clearly broken, or I forget, not even presented > as an option. > > But it should work fine if you save the image to a hard drive, a network > share, or a *large* USB flash drive. > > Or use something other than the native Windows tool if you want to burn to > DVD's. > > On 10/4/2014 12:24 AM, "J. Van Brimmer" wrote: > > That's what I intend to do once I get the DVDs created. I was having > trouble with the Windows backup tool writing to my external ASUS DVD-RW USB > drive. It seemed to write data to disc 1, and then it would tell me to > insert another disc larger than 1GB as Disc 1 again. I'll have to retry > that tomorrow. Not sure what's going on there. I was using 4.7GB DVD-R > discs. I just can't express how much I dislike *dows. There were no > messages that Disc 1 was complete, or anything similar. > > > > On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Israel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> Every so often I get a computer with windows on it, and I resize the >> windows partition for the person, so they can run their Windows only apps. >> I have never once had an issue. But really, most of the time, I only use >> Windows to update the BIOS. >> And then the next thing I do is install a flavour of Ubuntu. Usually >> Lubuntu, but sometimes Xubuntu. >> >> That said, I never use the Windows partitioner. I manually partition the >> system inside the LiveCD. Windows has always "worked" during those times. >> Usually, >> though it is better to reinstall Windows so you get a fresh registry. >> Though the newer NT based versions seem to handle things a bit better, they >> always seem to get slower, and full of viruses after they have been used >> for somewhere around a year. >> >> Most of the 'broken' computers I get have windows issues. I had one that >> the sound wasn't working, and the DVD drive no longer functioned (in >> windows). I simply booted a live CD (yes the drive did work), and voila... >> everything was working. >> >> >> >> On 10/03/2014 08:15 PM, "J. Van Brimmer" wrote: >> >> 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<- >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Regards >> >> >> -- >> Lubuntu-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users >> >> > > > -- > ->Jerry<- > > > >
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