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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