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Attempting to dual boot Win7 and Ubuntu11.04 - partitioning issue
Hello!
Background
I recently purchased an x220 Thinkpad by Lenovo and I've been trying to set up a dual boot partition between Windows 7 (which my system came with) and Ubuntu 11.04.
In the end I want to have three main partitions on my hard drive: one running Windows 7 with a total capacity of ~40-45GB, one running Ubuntu with ~10GB, and a third data partition called "Storage" with ~50GB to which both the Windows partition and the Ubuntu partition will have access. I found this set-up outlined on this site. Do those partition sizes sound OK?
I will eventually install Ubuntu onto a separate drive using Wubi, so as to keep my Windows boot loader safe from Ubuntu's GRUB boot loader!
Issue
Currently, I have one main partition (C drive) which has 55.39GB of space, 29.81GB of which is free space (you can see in the screen cap). There are also two smaller recovery partitions and the rest is 52.91GB of free space (which I will eventually turn into the data partition called Storage). Right now I'm trying to split the C drive so that 45GB can go towards a Windows7 partition and 10GB can be used for a Ubuntu partition.
When I try to do so using Window's Disk Manager (by right-clicking the C drive and selecting 'shrink volume'), a window pops up that tells me I only have 89MB of 'shrink space' even though it says I have 29.81GB of free space within my C drive on the disk manager window.
How can I go about splitting my C drive without causing any problems? I looks like I can force-shrink 10000MB and then turn that into the new partition, but will that have any adverse effects on my C drive?
Thanks for reading up till this point! I apologize if my post is unnecessarily long -- I am a 'computer illiterate' so I still don't have an eye for what's obvious vs. what's necessary to include in a post, lol
-shawli