[dba-Tech] g a dual boot laptop

[John Colby]

go get a tb ssd. Then run windows in a vm. Windows screws around with
things to trust it to not screw up the dual boot.

On Mon, Dec 24, 2018, 4:36 PM Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca wrote:

> 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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