New Lenovo Netbook

[J. Van Brimmer]

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 <andre.rodovalho at gmail.com>
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" <jerry.vb at gmail.com>:
>
>> 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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