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]
<mailto:[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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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]
<mailto:[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,
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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.
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Sincerely,
Aere
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