[dba-Tech] g a dual boot laptop

[Rocky Smolin]

I use my SSD only for system software and apps.  Anything with data goes on
the old internal HD that the SSD replaced as the boot drive.  Although I do
have my current clients' apps on the SSD so my development time is more
efficient. And my documents and other stuff that I use a lot. But they don't
take up much space. 

The old internal HD is mostly the mirror of my Google drive plus books and
music downloads. 

I should think that the 512 would be enough space for all of the OS files
and other system software and apps?

R


-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
Jim Lawrence
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2018 1:36 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: [dba-Tech] g a dual boot laptop

Hi All:

I have come to realize that my knowledge of Windows 10, is lacking. 

In front of me is a Dell XPS-2 with a 13inch touch screen. It has a 512SSD,
32GB RAM, I7 intel CPU, with amateur Windows 10 version (Home edition). As I
know little or nothing this OS, I have been plugging away to install enough
features to make this OS useful.

I have installed Ubuntu WSL, SSH server/client, Remote (RDP) which doesn't
come with the home version apparently. I am also trying to get X2Go server
installed but really only the client is needed. There is a bunch of other
software packages that will need to be installed but that is a start.

My main problem is reducing the amount of SSD space used by Windows down to
about 200GB. The BIOS tricks I wouldn't go into as they are hardware
specific. If there is anything that anyone can suggest I will be more than
appreciative.

1. Downloaded WINRETOOL and I understand I can backup the entire system to a
USB stick. What all does the Windows 10 backup tool backup? Does it backup
all the current installed applications as well? I would really hate to have
to go through numerous updating sequences again as it took many hours. 

2. Use a Disk management application, booted from another USB stick which
will format the drive into the appropriate partitions. In the past I have
just used Windows Disk Management tool to create a partition of unused drive
space and then rebooted the computer to install my Linux OS in the
unallocated space but for some reason it is not recognized that new
partition...it may be something with the current UEFI settings but I am not
sure. (What is the Windows EFI system partition?)

3. Then re-install the backedup Windows OS on one new partition, using the
backup USB stick and then install Linux on the other partition.

In theory it should all work but I have never done this before and it seems
I have little time to investigate properly. If anyone has experience or
comment to add please do so.

MTIA
Jim



  
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