New Lenovo Netbook

[J. Van Brimmer]

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 <Aere at dvorak-keyboards.com>
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,
>
> --
> ->Jerry<-
>
>
>  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.
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Aere
>
>


-- 
->Jerry<-
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