Challenge: Expand the C: Drive - Any ideas?
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- Image the disk
- Rip out the hard drive
- Replace with a larger drive
- Deploy cloned image
CloneZilla would be able to do this if you have enough storage space somewhere for the full image of the disk.
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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.
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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.
You could do the disk spanning option but the would cause more issues then it would solve in the long run... especially in Windows.
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Clone to a larger drive is quite simply the easiest thing to do.
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I should mention, computer is a 12 hour flight away with no technical staff on site
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@coliver said:
@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.
You could do the disk spanning option but the would cause more issues then it would solve in the long run... especially in Windows.
And is just slow, risky and complex.
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@anonymous said:
@coliver Computer is a 12 hour flight away with no technical staff on site.
And the cost of not virtualizing rears its ugly head. Had this been virtual, it would have been trivial to deal with remotely.
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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
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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.
