On 10/3/2014 1:30 PM, "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,
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->Jerry<-
I set up dual-boot on a Lenovo 3000 C200 laptop running Vista. My notes:
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.
Lenovo forum notes that the folder and/or its contents may be reliably
removed under any Live CD.
Current RRbackups folder size: 14.0 GB (probably holds a system image I
did at some point). Delete folder under Lubuntu Live.
This triggered /Installing device driver software/ at next Vista boot.
No Unknown Devices when done.
There was still an unmovable $UsnJrnl file near the end of the
partition. From an elevated command prompt, I deleted it with:
fsutil usn deletejournal /n c:
It will eventually be recreated.
I shrank the Windows partition to 53GB, leaving 25GB free there, and
53GB for Lubuntu.
[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.]
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