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    Challenge: Expand the C: Drive - Any ideas?

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    • gjacobseG
      gjacobse @coliver
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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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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @Alex Sage
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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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        • coliverC
          coliver @scottalanmiller
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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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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @coliver
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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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              Alex Sage @scottalanmiller
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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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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller
                last edited by

                For example, I live halfway between Texas and Brazil right now. But Argentina is like 12 hour flight away!

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                • coliverC
                  coliver @Alex Sage
                  last edited by

                  @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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                  • coliverC
                    coliver @scottalanmiller
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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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                      Alex Sage
                      last edited by Alex Sage

                      The only option that might work is:

                      1. Move the Reserve Partition from D to C
                      2. Format the D drive, and Span the drives....

                      Still hate it 😞 😞 😞

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                      • coliverC
                        coliver @scottalanmiller
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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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                        • coliverC
                          coliver
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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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                            Alex Sage @coliver
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                            @coliver Reloading a computer in Argentina takes days 😞

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @Alex Sage
                              last edited by

                              @anonymous said:

                              The only option that might work is:

                              1. Move the Reserve Partition from D to C
                              2. Format the D drive, and Span the drives....

                              Still hate it 😞 😞 😞

                              Seems like that is about it.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @Alex Sage
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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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                                  Alex Sage @scottalanmiller
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                                  @scottalanmiller That is correct.

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                                  • StrongBadS
                                    StrongBad
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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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                                    • Reid CooperR
                                      Reid Cooper
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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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                                        Jason Banned @scottalanmiller
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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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                                          Jason Banned @scottalanmiller
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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.

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @Jason
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                                            @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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