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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi,<br>
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.<br>
I have never once had an issue. But really, most of the time, I
only use Windows to update the BIOS.<br>
And then the next thing I do is install a flavour of Ubuntu.
Usually Lubuntu, but sometimes Xubuntu.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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On 10/03/2014 08:15 PM, "J. Van Brimmer" wrote:<br>
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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.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Andre
Rodovalho <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div>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...</div>
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<div>PS: Windows 7 requires 20GB for 64bits architecture.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2014-10-03 20:26 GMT-03:00 "J.
Van Brimmer" <span dir="ltr"><<a
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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. </div>
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<div class="gmail_default"
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just now booted up a Lubuntu live 14.04 disc
and ran Gparted from inside Lubu. <span>Gparted</span>
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?</div>
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style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">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.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 3, 2014
at 2:40 PM, Aere Greenway <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div>On 10/03/2014 11:30 AM, "J.
Van Brimmer" wrote:<br>
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style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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.<br>
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style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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. <br>
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style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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. <br>
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Jerry:<br>
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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. <br>
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A year or so later, that system was
in-trouble because of insufficient
space. <br>
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The culprit? The space was used up by
the multitude of Windows updates. <br>
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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). <br>
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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. <br>
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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. <br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
Beware that on Windows 8, it may leave
its partition in a 'suspend'
(hibernate) state, so re-sizing it
could give you problems. <br>
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