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Shrink Large Partition
Goal is to set-up dual booting (choice of) OS systems on anaging Gateway laptop utilizing W7 and Linux Kubuntu 15.04. Was followinginstructions found athttp://www.pcsteps.com/961-install-ubuntu-linux-windows/and got to point in “disk management” where objective is to “shrink” thelaptop’s “Disk zero Basic 111.79 GB Online – (C:) 78.87 GB NTFS Healthy(System, Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)” attended by32.92 GB of “Free Space” in order to make room to add a “10 GB Raw Healthy(Primary Partition)” intended for Kubuntu use.Problems are: 1) 78.87 GB seems like an unreasonable amount of hard diskspace for the W7 OS, and 2) the shrink volume option reports that the 78.87 GBcan only be shrunk by 7733 MB which is way less than the 10 GB required forKubuntu.How might I proceed, orhopefully pare-down the 78.87 GB primary partition?