New HP 500-223w desktop

[Jerry Lapham]

I just bought a new HP 500-223w desktop with Windows 8.1 installed.  It has 8 MB of 
memory and a 1 TB hard disk.   I want to shrink the Windows partition and add 
several Kubuntu partitions.

The 1 TB disk is partitioned:

free					           1MB
dev/sda1		ntfs 	    1072MB		    390MB 
used
dev/sda1		efi		       377MB		
       45MB used
dev/sda3				        134MB		
	   unk
dev/sda4		ntfs	 988329MB	25345MB used
dev/sda5		ntfs	    10282MB	   9024MB used
free						
       8MB

I plan to take advantage of the free Windows 10 upgrade.  I'd like to shrink the 
Windows partition and add several reasonable sized linux partitions and a large DATA 
partition.  On my old system I've been cloning a partition and then upgrading the 
clone.  That way I can go back easily if the upgrade isn't satisfactory.  The DATA 
partition is available from all the versions.

How does the UEFI disk and efi partition affect things.  Can I still use GRUB1 or do I 
have to go to GRUB2?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

	-Jerry
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Jerry Lapham
Monroe, OH  45050
rjlapham at gmail.com
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