05-15-2020, 04:10 PM
(05-13-2020, 02:01 PM)trinidad link Wrote: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
I've been reading, trinidad. The red section quote... First thought you were referring to replacing deleted system recovery partition (mine is 14. + GB). Then thought, "No, that is 'system image'." Then thought, "Why don't you ask."
What is "a new backup partition...", please?
Thanks for the help...
Mike