Challenge: Expand the C: Drive - Any ideas?
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@scottalanmiller It's a laptop.....
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No good option if it is a physical server and there isn't anyone to do the necessary work. Is there anything that you can clean off of the C drive rather than extending it? Like moving swap file(s) off to D?
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@anonymous said:
I should mention, computer is a 12 hour flight away with no technical staff on site
Is it mission critical? There is literally nothing you can do without being able to get your hands on it.
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@anonymous said:
@scottalanmiller It's a laptop.....
OH!. Well at least that makes more sense why it is like that.
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What is the D drive being used for?
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I have to ask... how old is a laptop with a 30GB drive?
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@anonymous said:
@scottalanmiller It's a laptop.....
Ship it.... it should take ~4-5 hours to clone the disk and restore to a larger one (if you are really slow
). They can have it back in two days. -
It's a Hybrid drive, the other site "IT Help" bought it with Win 8, and loaded Win 7 over it....
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I agree, ship it. It is almost certainly worth doing it "right". Put in a single, big SSD.
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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.
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@anonymous said:
It's a Hybrid drive, the other site "IT Help" bought it with Win 8, and loaded Win 7 over it....
Even hybrid, where do you find one that small? That's super tiny.
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@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.
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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.
