Challenge: Expand the C: Drive - Any ideas?
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I agree, ship it. It is almost certainly worth doing it "right". Put in a single, big SSD.
Can't recommend an SSD enough the user will be thanking you profusely for it.
And you can get a huge one, compared to these sizes, for $100.
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We thought about shipping it, but Argentina is a pay to ship from/to
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@anonymous said:
@scottalanmiller It's a laptop.....
Ah - then that answers that.
I'd start with GParted or similar and shift the partitions.
Back up your data first.
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@gjacobse said:
My first thought is
- Is Disk 0 a physical drive or logical drive?
If logical, you can use something such as GParted to resize the partitions.
I was thinking that too. I can't remember the last time I saw a 30GB hard drive. Even in a laptop.
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@anonymous said:
We thought about shipping it, but Argentina is a pay to ship from/to
I'll be there soonish. Can it wait till January?
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@scottalanmiller said:
I have to ask... how old is a laptop with a 30GB drive?
Bought 3 months ago... Hybrid drive.
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@anonymous said:
We thought about shipping it, but Argentina is a pay to ship from/to
Haha... it would probably be less expensive for you to fly down, repair it, and fly back.
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Argentina is under crazy import restrictions right now. All kinds of IT stuff falling apart there right now.
What city is it in? I know someone from SW in Argentina.
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@coliver said:
@anonymous said:
We thought about shipping it, but Argentina is a pay to ship from/to
Haha... it would probably be less expensive for you to fly down, repair it, and fly back.
You've never priced a flight to Argentina, clearly.
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@coliver said:
I was thinking that too. I can't remember the last time I saw a 30GB hard drive. Even in a laptop.
I used to split drives for OS and DATA, but didn't use a drive that small,.. more along the lines of 80-120GB for the OS.
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@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?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@anonymous said:
We thought about shipping it, but Argentina is a pay to ship from/to
Haha... it would probably be less expensive for you to fly down, repair it, and fly back.
You've never priced a flight to Argentina, clearly.
Nope, though we did to Brazil and it wasn't that expensive.
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@coliver said:
Nope, though we did to Brazil and it wasn't that expensive.
That's a few countries closer.
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@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!
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For example, I live halfway between Texas and Brazil right now. But Argentina is like 12 hour flight away!
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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.
