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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">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.<br>
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But it should work fine if you save the image to a hard drive, a
network share, or a *large* USB flash drive.<br>
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Or use something other than the native Windows tool if you want
to burn to DVD's.<br>
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On 10/4/2014 12:24 AM, "J. Van Brimmer" wrote:<br>
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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. </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 6:50 PM,
Israel <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:israeldahl@gmail.com" target="_blank">israeldahl@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<div>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 <span
id="61f6f2ac-fbc5-4291-a012-8ca55d380cec"
class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">flavour</span> 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. <span
id="0b86e108-720d-4d9d-9a31-ef3c08495863"
class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">Usually, though it</span>
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... <span
id="d4be6e87-390f-4fdc-8fdc-8f853bbd4a50"
class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">everything</span> was
working.
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On 10/03/2014 08:15 PM, "J. Van Brimmer" wrote:<br>
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<div
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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
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target="_blank">andre.rodovalho@gmail.com</a>></span>
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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
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<div
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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
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I
just now booted up a Lubuntu
live 14.04 disc and ran
Gparted from inside Lubu. <span><span
id="0da6761d-8d53-49c2-9342-0eaf5a6d00a1" class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">Gparted</span></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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<div
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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Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 2:40
PM, Aere Greenway <span
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<div>On
10/03/2014
11:30 AM, "J.
Van Brimmer"
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<div
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I
have just
acquired a
"new"
refurbished
Lenovo X140e <span
id="0db23e36-a126-4aaa-b7f5-7850f2ba2038" class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">netbook</span>.
<span
id="bfb8da89-48df-4a50-8e4f-a6998420d04b"
class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">tI</span> 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 <span
id="e4e4d043-df8b-47e9-8d03-3700017f1650" class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">C</span>
by 50%. So, I
went ahead and
did that.<br>
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<div
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Then,
I booted up a
live CD of
Gparted. <span
id="b62ad9a9-9d89-4d97-8fd2-3fd21d936b8e" class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">Gparted</span>
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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<div
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
<span
id="236389b2-2671-4ee1-a585-0d913cd65936"
class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">on</span> this before I get started. <br>
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Jerry:<br>
<br>
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>
<br>
A year or so later,
that system was
in-trouble because
of insufficient
space. <br>
<br>
The culprit? The
space was used up by
the multitude of
Windows updates. <br>
<br>
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>
<br>
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 <span
id="67b2e4e7-b019-4caf-9493-24b91461a70d" class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">those</span>
restore-points take
up disk space as
well. <br>
<br>
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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