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A2H GO

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7th Jan 13 at 22:38

Had a problem with the D: drive randomly filling up, even though it's the recovery drive.

Decided to clean upgrade to Windows 8 however its still full:

Do I need to put W8 on a disk/USB and clean install it that way?

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8th Jan 13 at 10:46

Yeah you need to fuck the recovery partition off completely!

A2H GO

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8th Jan 13 at 12:36

Yes people keep telling me to just use a program to delete it and extend the C: drive but won't I need it if the laptop goes tits up?

Sam

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8th Jan 13 at 12:49

If you intend on selling the laptop in the future with the factory install, yes.

A2H GO

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8th Jan 13 at 12:51

Probably not tbh, it's a 4 year old Dell but can guarantee at least once a year it will die out the blue and I have to reinstall everything from scratch.

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8th Jan 13 at 13:02

its 15gb, id just leave it

A2H GO

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8th Jan 13 at 13:55

Keep getting stupid error message poping up every 5 mins telling me drive space low

Dom

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8th Jan 13 at 14:08

Nuke the partition and then either create backup discs or clone the drive and keep that in case of emergencies.

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8th Jan 13 at 14:50

Or just buy a bigger hard drive and keep the factory partition and restore setup as-is on the old drive

A2H GO

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8th Jan 13 at 15:24

quote:
Originally posted by Sam
Or just buy a bigger hard drive and keep the factory partition and restore setup as-is on the old drive

I've still got 75gb free on this, don't need another HDD.

A2H GO

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8th Jan 13 at 15:24

quote:
Originally posted by Dom
Nuke the partition and then either create backup discs or clone the drive and keep that in case of emergencies.

Think I'll do this, if I do a full clean install of W8 tonight by burning the ISO to a disk rather than just updating, will this completely format both drives?

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8th Jan 13 at 15:31

depends on which options you pick. By default it probably won't.

You will need to delete your existing partitions and create a new single large one.

No need to reinstall though. Just go into Computer Management then Disk Management, delete the d: drive, extend the c: drive and jobs done (might be called something different now in Windows 8)

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8th Jan 13 at 18:07

quote:
Originally posted by A2H GO

quote:
Originally posted by Dom
Nuke the partition and then either create backup discs or clone the drive and keep that in case of emergencies.

Think I'll do this, if I do a full clean install of W8 tonight by burning the ISO to a disk rather than just updating, will this completely format both drives?

If doing a fresh install with disc's windows will allow you to shrink/delete and then extend the partions before installing but must do it from boot and not once booted.

edit: Doing it from boot = booting the computer with the disc drive as the primary boot (which many are as default)

[Edited on 08-01-2013 by Toby]

A2H GO

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8th Jan 13 at 19:15

Just sorting it now

A2H GO

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8th Jan 13 at 21:04

Deleted D:
Formatted C:
Clean installed windows 8, everything fine only C: is still 218gb so looks like I lost the 14gb that was the D:, ah well, no annoying message.

Sam

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8th Jan 13 at 21:12

Did you repartition the drive?

A2H GO

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8th Jan 13 at 21:18

quote:
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Did you repartition the drive?

No, should I have done? I just have one C: drive now?

A2H GO

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8th Jan 13 at 21:32

This is what it looks like now, have I messed it up

Edit, managed to get rid of the unallocated space and extend the C: so just got the one drive with all the space on now.

[Edited on 08-01-2013 by A2H GO]

Sam

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8th Jan 13 at 21:35

quote:
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
Did you repartition the drive?

No, should I have done? I just have one C: drive now?

Yes

You had two separate partitions before, with your C: drive on one partition and your D: drive on another.

All you have done is simply format both partitions and installed Windows on the first partition, leaving the second one empty.

Dom

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8th Jan 13 at 21:36

You want to now resize the C: partition adding the unallocated 14.65GB; although during reinstall it would have been easier to have removed all partitions and then create a single partition of 236 odd GB.

[Edited on 08-01-2013 by Dom]

A2H GO

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8th Jan 13 at 21:37

See edit above, now looks like this, one 232gb partition.

[Edited on 08-01-2013 by A2H GO]

A2H GO

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8th Jan 13 at 21:39

quote:
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You want to now resize the C: partition adding the unallocated 14.65GB; although during reinstall it would have been easier to have removed all partitions and then create a single partition of 236 odd GB.

[Edited on 08-01-2013 by Dom]

The 'remove' was greyed out as part of the install for some reason. Sorted now though (I think), glad I went back and sorted it out, it's like me to just leave it. Cheers for the help.