nikosd
November 30th, 2013, 06:52 AM
Hello all,
I am about to set up for dual boot, win7/ubuntu 13.10, or mint. Windows is pre installed. Setting up a windows virtual machine is not an option because HP does *not* provide warranty coverage if you remove the pre installed windows, which includes their "proprietary" diagnostic software (I already had to wipe out linux once to put windows back and get my dead battery replaced -one month of setting up ubuntu down the drain).
I am wondering if I can use the existing windows hibernation partition also as a swap partition for linux to save myself a few GB on my solid state drive (win7 will occupy 20 GB + 15 GB for recovery already!)
Current disk partitioning looks like:
System- 199 MB (primary NTFS)
C: 100 GB (primary NTFS)
D: 15 GB, Recovery (primary NTFS)
E: 101 MB, HP_TOOLS (Logical FAT32)
Hibernation 4GB (no file system listed)
If that is not an option, I will just remove the windows hibernation and not allow the poor sucker to hibernate from windows.
Thanks,
Nikos
I am about to set up for dual boot, win7/ubuntu 13.10, or mint. Windows is pre installed. Setting up a windows virtual machine is not an option because HP does *not* provide warranty coverage if you remove the pre installed windows, which includes their "proprietary" diagnostic software (I already had to wipe out linux once to put windows back and get my dead battery replaced -one month of setting up ubuntu down the drain).
I am wondering if I can use the existing windows hibernation partition also as a swap partition for linux to save myself a few GB on my solid state drive (win7 will occupy 20 GB + 15 GB for recovery already!)
Current disk partitioning looks like:
System- 199 MB (primary NTFS)
C: 100 GB (primary NTFS)
D: 15 GB, Recovery (primary NTFS)
E: 101 MB, HP_TOOLS (Logical FAT32)
Hibernation 4GB (no file system listed)
If that is not an option, I will just remove the windows hibernation and not allow the poor sucker to hibernate from windows.
Thanks,
Nikos