Jerry, I made 2 windows 7 backups... They take 4 DVDs (each). I used the Asus tool and Vaio tool, not that Windows tool.. (it was two different notebooks)...
2014-10-04 13:35 GMT-03:00 Phill Whiteside <[email protected]>: > That's plenty of room! > > I've watched this thread with interest, but I've always been advised to > make windows resize it's own stuff. Glad that patience is paying off! Do > let me know how many primary partitions you have free > > Regards, > > Phill. > > On 4 October 2014 16:58, "J. Van Brimmer" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Well, I just completed a Disk Cleanup and that removed over 1 Gb of >> files. Tjen I reran the Shrink Volume process. This time it allowed C to >> shrink down to 113 Gb. Hallelujah, I'm almost there! I'm going to another >> defrag/clean up, then try again. If nothing gives this time, I'll probably >> just leave it as is. This leaves me with over 300 Gb for Linux. I like >> installing 2 or 3 different distributions, just for fun. >> On Oct 3, 2014 10:30 AM, J. Van Brimmer <[email protected]> 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<- >>> >> >> -- >> Lubuntu-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users >> >> > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > >
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