topic title: 4 primary Windows Partitions
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#1
This thread is for telling how I changed the 4 primary partitions on a Compaq CQ57 319QM Laptop to 3 primary and one Logical without destroying Windows 7 or losing anything on the other 3 partitions Compaq loads at the factory. I am posting right now in Windows 7.

I used
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Free Download Bootable CD Now!
Bootable CD Version Platform Size Link
Home 8.1.1 Full version Windows XP, 2000 Professional, Vista SP2, Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8(all editions, 32 bit and 64 bit) 48.34 MB Local Download
I used
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since it is a 178KB download and is simple as it can get to burn a image file on a Sony CDRW disk I used for free in Windows 7.

I booted the cd. Saw tinycore.gz which I thought was cool.


Picked safe graphics. When partition manager showed. I went into the left tool bar and looked for anything that would manage a partition.
Then I found rename from primary to Logical ,and, I was on drive C which I forgot to mention first. That was the biggest partition where Windows 7 was Installed.

I let it do it's thing. When done. Drive C was a Logical Partition now.
I closed the Window which rebooted the computer. Frantically looking for the eject button so to eject the cd so I could boot into Windows 7
To check first.

I used Windows 7 disk manager to shrink drive C. It gave me 90gigs and gave Windows 120 gig. Figures but I am playing it safe. I will tell you why later.
When done.

I reboot one more time into Windows 7 to make sure nothing broke.



I now have a laptop that fought me with 4 primary partitions that now has room for Linux on a 90 gig partition.

Took me awhile to figure this one out. I have Slack0 5.7 installed inside Windows 7 as a .exe program file
With a save file in Windows. Grub is also used in that install. So next is add/remove programs to uninstall Slack0
and think and figure out what might I do yet with the 90 gigs.

Just thought I'd let you guys know. Next post will be in Puppy and some gparted screenshots with some blkid and inxi.

I am one happy camper with this solution.

Now.

Reasons. Compaq in their Wisdom/DRM decided you can only make recovery
media ONLY 1 time. Which my wife did in 2011 when I bought her this laptop. She now has a Dell E4310 I5, 8gig ram, 500gig HD,
I bought her. So she gave me this. Not trusting yet the backup disks she made. So, I went this route instead. I might wanna sell this thing
later for a couple hundred bucks locally and buy me something better. Later though.

More to follow.
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#2
Ok, I made my Repair Disk Windows 7 64bit CD (260MB or so). Booted it 1st to make sure it works.
It will come in handy to reinstall Windows MBR after removing grub when I sell this thing.



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# su spot
# whoami
spot
# inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: biker Kernel: 3.10.32 i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.7.1) 
           Desktop: JWM git-905 Distro: Slacko Puppy Linux Linux 3.10.32 [ arch]
Machine:   System: Hewlett-Packard (portable) product: Presario CQ57 Notebook PC version: 068C110003204910000620100
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 3577 version: 24.48
           Bios: Hewlett-Packard version: F.42 date: 11/07/2011
CPU:       Dual core AMD C-50 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB
           flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 3992.14 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 800.00 MHz 2: 800.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card: ATI Device 9804 bus-ID: 00:01.0 
           Display Server: X.Org 1.12.4 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: vesa) Resolution: 1366x768@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD PALM GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) 
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2 
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.10.32
Network:   Card: Ralink Device 5390 
           driver: rt2800pci ver: 2.3.0 bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: -1
           IF: wlan0 state: up speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter>
           Card: Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller 
           driver: r8169 ver: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 2000 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: -2
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 250.1GB (-) 1: id: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD2500BEVT size: 250.1GB 
Partition: 
RAID:      No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 64.2C mobo: N/A gpu: 64.0 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A 
Info:      Processes: 91 Uptime: 8 min Memory: 239.4/1623.5MB Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 
           Gcc sys: 4.7.1 Client: Shell (sh) inxi: 2.1.1 
# blkid
/dev/loop1: UUID="75c046fe-e263-4015-9712-c427241a9722" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda5: UUID="01CF54DDED227E00" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda4: LABEL="HP_TOOLS" UUID="E4C1-BF34" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sda1: LABEL="SYSTEM" UUID="10703818703806CE" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda3: LABEL="Recovery" UUID="EE34B6F134B6BBC1" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop4: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop5: TYPE="squashfs"
Specs and gparted shot like I promised before I delete this Puppy Install. But not tonight. Maybe later on.
This Puppy install worked quite well while it lasted.
Posts: 667
jdmeaux1952
Joined: 01 Nov 2013
#3
Puppy is fun at first, then you got to go with the Big Dogs. Like antiX and MX-14. __{{emoticon}}__