alokmahor
April 16th, 2013, 10:55 PM
Hi everyone,
I have to install Linux on one friends laptop without wasting time in backing up or moving data here and there.
the hard disk scene is
/dev/sda
/dev/sda1 of about 100MB which is part of window 7 installation
/dev/sda2 of about 300GB which contains window 7 OS, have lot of free space
/dev/sda3 of about 10GB which is recovery drive
/dev/sda4 of about 100MB which is HP_TOOLS
I will use free space from sda2. but 4 primary partitions are already created so I cant create new partition.
earlier I used to convince people to delete Recovery partition as they had C/DVD's of window and drivers
but some people dont have CD/DVS's of window and drivers so I have to take long time to decide what should I do in this case as I dont want to waste my time in creating recovery DVD's for them.
do anyone have idea how much HP_TOOLS (sda4) is significant? what if I delete this small partition? does this drive contains something important for laptop?
or suggest me what should I do in such cases?
or can we convert primary partition to extended/logical partition?
I have to install Linux on one friends laptop without wasting time in backing up or moving data here and there.
the hard disk scene is
/dev/sda
/dev/sda1 of about 100MB which is part of window 7 installation
/dev/sda2 of about 300GB which contains window 7 OS, have lot of free space
/dev/sda3 of about 10GB which is recovery drive
/dev/sda4 of about 100MB which is HP_TOOLS
I will use free space from sda2. but 4 primary partitions are already created so I cant create new partition.
earlier I used to convince people to delete Recovery partition as they had C/DVD's of window and drivers
but some people dont have CD/DVS's of window and drivers so I have to take long time to decide what should I do in this case as I dont want to waste my time in creating recovery DVD's for them.
do anyone have idea how much HP_TOOLS (sda4) is significant? what if I delete this small partition? does this drive contains something important for laptop?
or suggest me what should I do in such cases?
or can we convert primary partition to extended/logical partition?