New Lenovo Netbook

[J. Van Brimmer]

Thanks for your notes, John, very interesting. What I am primarily
curious about is that the Windows partitioner will only shrink C to
about 50% of it's original size, Gparted says I can shrink it down a
lot more. I was just wondering, if I did that with Gparted, will that
clobber Windows.

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:23 AM, John Hupp <lubuntu at prpcompany.com> wrote:
> On 10/3/2014 1:30 PM, "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<-
>
>
> I set up dual-boot on a Lenovo 3000 C200 laptop running Vista.  My notes:
>
> Rescue and Recovery hidden system folder C:\RRbackups is unmovable by any
> defrag program I tried and keeps me from further shrinking the Windows
> partition more than an initial 30 GB.
>
> Lenovo forum notes that the folder and/or its contents may be reliably
> removed under any Live CD.
>
> Current RRbackups folder size: 14.0 GB (probably holds a system image I did
> at some point).  Delete folder under Lubuntu Live.
>
> This triggered Installing device driver software at next Vista boot.  No
> Unknown Devices when done.
>
> There was still an unmovable $UsnJrnl file near the end of the partition.
> From an elevated command prompt, I deleted it with:
>     fsutil usn deletejournal /n c:
> It will eventually be recreated.
>
> I shrank the Windows partition to 53GB, leaving 25GB free there, and 53GB
> for Lubuntu.
>
> [I don't have explicit notes about what partition tool I was using at each
> shrink.  I may have started with the Windows tool and finished with
> Gparted.]



-- 
->Jerry<-