Hi,
I purchased a new Lenovo Thinkpad L540 laptop. This laptop was supposed to be installed with Windows 8 pro but instead it came with Windows 7 Pro with an option to upgrade to windows 8 Pro. Now they provided me four discs with following titles:
1. Operating System Recovery Disc Windows 8 Pro Disc 1
2. Operating System Recovery Disc Windows 8 Pro Disc 2
3. Windows 8 Recovery Media for Windows 8 Products Disc 1
4. Windows 8 Recovery Media for Windows 8 Products Disc 2
Now I want to install Ubuntu 14.04 on this laptop. Also I want to backup my license of Windows 7 so in case if in future if I need I'll install Windows 7 and not Win 8. I don't like Windows 8, I don't like Win 7 either but if I have to choose between them I'll choose 7.
Another problem I am facing is when I tried to shrink my 500GB windows partition I am not able to shrink it below 228 GB. I want to shrink it to 100GB so that I can use remaining 128 GB as my home partition. I followed [this][1] tutorial to shrink partition, but no luck. So I think I may have to remove Windows 7 and reinstall it using the backup I am creating above.
So can anyone please help me in telling me how can I create backup of Windows 7 before I start messing up by installing Ubuntu. I am in no rush, I want to know exactly what I am getting into, so I'll do as much reading as required. So pointing me in right direction will also help.
Thanks.
I purchased a new Lenovo Thinkpad L540 laptop. This laptop was supposed to be installed with Windows 8 pro but instead it came with Windows 7 Pro with an option to upgrade to windows 8 Pro. Now they provided me four discs with following titles:
1. Operating System Recovery Disc Windows 8 Pro Disc 1
2. Operating System Recovery Disc Windows 8 Pro Disc 2
3. Windows 8 Recovery Media for Windows 8 Products Disc 1
4. Windows 8 Recovery Media for Windows 8 Products Disc 2
Now I want to install Ubuntu 14.04 on this laptop. Also I want to backup my license of Windows 7 so in case if in future if I need I'll install Windows 7 and not Win 8. I don't like Windows 8, I don't like Win 7 either but if I have to choose between them I'll choose 7.
Another problem I am facing is when I tried to shrink my 500GB windows partition I am not able to shrink it below 228 GB. I want to shrink it to 100GB so that I can use remaining 128 GB as my home partition. I followed [this][1] tutorial to shrink partition, but no luck. So I think I may have to remove Windows 7 and reinstall it using the backup I am creating above.
So can anyone please help me in telling me how can I create backup of Windows 7 before I start messing up by installing Ubuntu. I am in no rush, I want to know exactly what I am getting into, so I'll do as much reading as required. So pointing me in right direction will also help.
Thanks.