The company refused access to corporate necessities like their Access and VOIP server via my private Thinkpad W520 computer that also boots Win7.
So I had to accept a company computer and asked for something light and small, I just received a T430s with a 128GB SSD.
Because of the nature of my work I need near full admin access so I can install most things needed by myself.
I noticed it's a lovely little machine but with a rather lousy (LITEONIT LLCT-128) and small SSD, with just the bare essentials installed there is a little over 85GB free.
I'm looking at options to get it dual boot into Kubuntu but want to make it as reversible as possible.
I can shrink the C: drive by say 20GB for a the root and swap of a Kubuntu install and maybe put in a larger SD card (or extra SSD in a caddy) for /home.
Could I install Grub on the SD and boot directly into Win7 when I take out the SD?
Another thought is to clone the present SSD and copy it to a larger (and faster!) one owned by myself and put the company one in a safe place.
Presently there are two partitions, both ntfs, the first is ~105MB and not shown by Windows.
Would this cloning/copying be doable?
So I had to accept a company computer and asked for something light and small, I just received a T430s with a 128GB SSD.
Because of the nature of my work I need near full admin access so I can install most things needed by myself.
I noticed it's a lovely little machine but with a rather lousy (LITEONIT LLCT-128) and small SSD, with just the bare essentials installed there is a little over 85GB free.
I'm looking at options to get it dual boot into Kubuntu but want to make it as reversible as possible.
I can shrink the C: drive by say 20GB for a the root and swap of a Kubuntu install and maybe put in a larger SD card (or extra SSD in a caddy) for /home.
Could I install Grub on the SD and boot directly into Win7 when I take out the SD?
Another thought is to clone the present SSD and copy it to a larger (and faster!) one owned by myself and put the company one in a safe place.
Presently there are two partitions, both ntfs, the first is ~105MB and not shown by Windows.
Would this cloning/copying be doable?
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