New Lenovo Netbook
John Hupp
lubuntu at prpcompany.com
Sat Oct 4 14:31:17 UTC 2014
Sadly, Clonezilla does not yet support burning directly to (or restoring
from) multiple DVD's. You seem to be well aware of that in the backup
part of your plan. As I recall, to restore you would have to copy all
those images from the DVD's to a single collection on a hard drive,
network share or flash drive, then aim Clonezilla at that collection
during the restore.
On 10/4/2014 10:10 AM, "J. Van Brimmer" wrote:
>
> 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
> <mailto: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
>> <mailto: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
>>> <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>>> <mailto: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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>>> --
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>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>>
>>
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>>
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