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That's what I intend to do once I get the DVDs created. I was having
trouble with the Windows backup tool writing to my external ASUS DVD-RW USB
drive. It seemed to write data to disc 1, and then it would tell me to
insert another disc larger than 1GB as Disc 1 again. I'll have to retry
that tomorrow. Not sure what's going on there. I was using 4.7GB DVD-R
discs. I just can't express how much I dislike *dows. There were no
messages that Disc 1 was complete, or anything similar.

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Israel <israeldahl at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi,
> Every so often I get a computer with windows on it, and I resize the
> windows partition for the person, so they can run their Windows only apps.
> I have never once had an issue.  But really, most of the time, I only use
> Windows to update the BIOS.
> And then the next thing I do is install a flavour of Ubuntu.  Usually
> Lubuntu, but sometimes Xubuntu.
>
> That said, I never use the Windows partitioner.  I manually partition the
> system inside the LiveCD.  Windows has always "worked" during those times.  Usually,
> though it is better to reinstall Windows so you get a fresh registry.
> Though the newer NT based versions seem to handle things a bit better, they
> always seem to get slower, and full of viruses after they have been used
> for somewhere around a year.
>
> Most of the 'broken' computers I get have windows issues.  I had one that
> the sound wasn't working, and the DVD drive no longer functioned (in
> windows).  I simply booted a live CD (yes the drive did work), and voila...
> everything was working.
>
>
>
> On 10/03/2014 08:15 PM, "J. Van Brimmer" wrote:
>
>  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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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