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...@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 <a...@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<- > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > >
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