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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/3/2014 1:30 PM, "J. Van Brimmer"
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style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Hello,<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<-
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I set up dual-boot on a Lenovo 3000 C200 laptop running Vista. My
notes:<br>
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Rescue and Recovery hidden system folder C:\RRbackups is unmovable
by any defrag program I tried and keeps me from further shrinking
the Windows partition more than an initial 30 GB.<br>
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Lenovo forum notes that the folder and/or its contents may be
reliably removed under any Live CD.<br>
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Current RRbackups folder size: 14.0 GB (probably holds a system
image I did at some point). Delete folder under Lubuntu Live.<br>
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This triggered <i>Installing device driver software</i> at next
Vista boot. No Unknown Devices when done.<br>
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There was still an unmovable $UsnJrnl file near the end of the
partition. From an elevated command prompt, I deleted it with:<br>
fsutil usn deletejournal /n c:<br>
It will eventually be recreated.<br>
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I shrank the Windows partition to 53GB, leaving 25GB free there, and
53GB for Lubuntu.<br>
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[I don't have explicit notes about what partition tool I was using
at each shrink. I may have started with the Windows tool and finished
with Gparted.]<br>
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