flylehe
February 3rd, 2011, 07:24 PM
Following is the layout of the current partitions of my single hard drive viewed from Windows 7:
http://i.imgur.com/LEolw.png
As the figure shows, my current partitions are:
- C: has Windows 7 system files and my personal data;
- Q: for Lenovo recovery;
- SYSTEM_DRV: for Windows boot files;
My goals are:
- to create another partition D: for my personal data, and dedicate C: for Windows system files and applications only.
- to install Ubuntu alongside Windows. D: will be shared between the two OSes, and home of Ubuntu will not be served as the primary storage place for my data, and just for some current programming projects.
I know I have to shrink C:. But I was wondering
- Could you design a reasonable plan for my partition case? Specifically, for each partition, how much size, and primary or logical? Can you give a rough description of what steps shall I do within Windows 7, and what steps to do when I restart into Ubuntu installation CD?
- Shall I defragment the hard drive before the process starts? I was also wondering if and when I shall check the hard drive and file system for errors?
- My current C: partition has already been occupied with around 86 GB. If I want to shrink C: for storing Windows 7 system files and applications to a smaller size , such as 50 GB, shall I move out some files on C: to drop its occupied size below 50 GB before I am able to shrink C: to 50 GB in Windows 7?
Thanks and regards!
http://i.imgur.com/LEolw.png
As the figure shows, my current partitions are:
- C: has Windows 7 system files and my personal data;
- Q: for Lenovo recovery;
- SYSTEM_DRV: for Windows boot files;
My goals are:
- to create another partition D: for my personal data, and dedicate C: for Windows system files and applications only.
- to install Ubuntu alongside Windows. D: will be shared between the two OSes, and home of Ubuntu will not be served as the primary storage place for my data, and just for some current programming projects.
I know I have to shrink C:. But I was wondering
- Could you design a reasonable plan for my partition case? Specifically, for each partition, how much size, and primary or logical? Can you give a rough description of what steps shall I do within Windows 7, and what steps to do when I restart into Ubuntu installation CD?
- Shall I defragment the hard drive before the process starts? I was also wondering if and when I shall check the hard drive and file system for errors?
- My current C: partition has already been occupied with around 86 GB. If I want to shrink C: for storing Windows 7 system files and applications to a smaller size , such as 50 GB, shall I move out some files on C: to drop its occupied size below 50 GB before I am able to shrink C: to 50 GB in Windows 7?
Thanks and regards!