Challenge: Expand the C: Drive - Any ideas?
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@anonymous said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Hybrid drives were typically 500GB starting sizes like a few years ago. Was this like old stock somewhere?
Could be, once again it's Argentina!
What is required on it? It may be easier to just re-install Windows 8 on a larger disk and call it good. That is something the "IT Help" could probably do?
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@scottalanmiller said:
For example, I live halfway between Texas and Brazil right now. But Argentina is like 12 hour flight away!
Ah, that I wasn't aware of.
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The only option that might work is:
- Move the Reserve Partition from D to C
- Format the D drive, and Span the drives....
Still hate it
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@scottalanmiller said:
@anonymous said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I have to ask... how old is a laptop with a 30GB drive?
Bought 3 months ago... Hybrid drive.
Hybrid drives were typically 500GB starting sizes like a few years ago. Was this like old stock somewhere?
This is a 500GB drive would be my guess just looking at the partitions. Probably has the OS and Data drive on the same disk, just logically separate. I don't think you will be able to expand it without deleting data... your best bet is to wipe the partition table and install Windows to a new partition that spans the entire disk.
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Although like @gjacobse said you may need to use GParted to wipe the partition table there may be some manufacture funny-ness happening.
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@coliver Reloading a computer in Argentina takes days
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@anonymous said:
The only option that might work is:
- Move the Reserve Partition from D to C
- Format the D drive, and Span the drives....
Still hate it
Seems like that is about it.
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@anonymous said:
@coliver Reloading a computer in Argentina takes days
No local storage there to store images on?
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@scottalanmiller That is correct.
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Are these home sites in Argentina or is it an office there? Maybe a small investment in upgrading the office would make sense. Could you potentially have a locally sourced NAS device (anything, does not need to be enterprise or anything special - thinking like a Netgear or Buffalo or something, whatever is available) put into the office and use this opportunity to upgrade the office before you start this drive change and have an image ready to go off of the NAS (plus you could use it for backups and scratch space for whatever) and make things better for this and for whatever happens down the road?
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That's not a bad idea, a small NAS unit of whatever is available down there would probably go a long way towards improving the capabilities for things like this. How big is the office?
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@scottalanmiller said:
Yup, @coliver has it here. The only way to make C bigger without doing something horrible like spanning to another physical drive would require you to replace the drive with something bigger.
Unless this is a VM then it's a 10second fix to expand it
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@scottalanmiller said:
@anonymous said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I have to ask... how old is a laptop with a 30GB drive?
Bought 3 months ago... Hybrid drive.
Hybrid drives were typically 500GB starting sizes like a few years ago. Was this like old stock somewhere?
Possible they configured it weird some
Hybrid drives let you separate it out to use the 40-60gb as an SSD rather than a cache for mass storage. -
@Jason said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@anonymous said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I have to ask... how old is a laptop with a 30GB drive?
Bought 3 months ago... Hybrid drive.
Hybrid drives were typically 500GB starting sizes like a few years ago. Was this like old stock somewhere?
Possible they configured it weird some
Hybrid drives let you separate it out to use the 40-60gb as an SSD rather than a cache for mass storage.That would make it two drives rather than a hybrid. I didn't know that any let you do that, what a horrible idea. You'd end up with a tiny drive only the size of a cache for the SSD and lose effectively all of the advantages of a hybrid drive's speed and be left with a terribly crippled itty bitty SSD and a really slow, cache-less storage drive.
And... that appears to be what they did
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I don't think that there is anything to be done except to span into the D drive to be quick and easy, or to reimage the entire machine to take a long time and do it "right".
Sounds like doing it right, though, wouldn't just make it easy to use long term but would massively upgrade the performance of the system since we are assuming that someone disabled the hybrid drive here.
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Did you end up getting this to work?
