New Lenovo Netbook

Sat Oct 4 14:10:13 UTC 2014

Yeah,  I figured as much. I am looking into using clonezilla to create
compressed images, then burning those to DVDs.

I really appreciate everyone who has responded. I have read all of your
replies, and am cosidering all of your inputs.

At this point I have, like I said before,  shrunk C down to 226Gb, but I
think it'll go down a lot more. I would rather let W*dows shrink itself
rather than just smacking it down with Gparted. But, all options are still
open.

Well, here goes ...
 On Oct 4, 2014 6:50 AM, "John Hupp" <lubuntu at prpcompany.com> wrote:

>  I regard the Windows imaging tool as broken for the purpose of burning
> to DVD.  I think it worked in early versions of Windows 7, but then they
> broke it in a later version.  By the time they included the Win 7 tool in
> Win 8 (!!), DVD support was clearly broken, or I forget, not even presented
> as an option.
>
> But it should work fine if you save the image to a hard drive, a network
> share, or a *large* USB flash drive.
>
> Or use something other than the native Windows tool if you want to burn to
> DVD's.
>
> On 10/4/2014 12:24 AM, "J. Van Brimmer" wrote:
>
>  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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