LINUX LITE 7.2 FINAL RELEASED - SEE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENTS SECTION FOR DETAILS


Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
'Something Else' partitioning... unsure of disk type and BIOS settings
#4
I'm going to assume this is 64bit hardware and MBR. The first thing to do is completely defragment drive C using the Windows defrag tool. This can take quite some time if you haven't been running it on auto over the years. When that is complete your Windows 7 system should only need about 50G, but keep it at 100G . Shrink it to that size. Reboot. Delete sda3 (the 14G partition). Combine the leftover space and designate it all unallocated. Reboot. Create a new backup partition for Windows if you want. Windows will use the leftover space in sda2 to create sda3 if you tell it to. 10G is ample. Reboot. Check that Windows created and recognizes the new backup partition. Shutdown. Boot to DVD or USB and Install LL using the alongside option. You don't need all those separate partitions for LL and swap is unnecessary as LL uses swapfile. On a Windows dual boot MBR disk it's best to use as few partitions as possible as 5 is the general limit.

TC 
All opinions expressed and all advice given by Trinidad Cruz on this forum are his responsibility alone and do not necessarily reflect the views or methods of the developers of Linux Lite. He is a citizen of the United States where it is acceptable to occasionally be uninformed and inept as long as you pay your taxes.
Reply


Messages In This Thread
Re: 'Something Else' partitioning... unsure of disk type and BIOS settings - by trinidad - 05-13-2020, 02:01 PM

Forum Jump:


Users browsing this thread: 2 Guest(s)