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Not much you can do besides deleting stuff. Check if you have a recovery partition. One of my friends had a netbook that came with windows 7 professional installed on a 16gb SSD. There was a hidden 5gb recovery partition, so that with windows 7 left less than a gig of free space. When I deleted it and expanded the windows 7 partition it worked out fine.
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Not much you can do besides deleting stuff. Check if you have a recovery partition. One of my friends had a netbook that came with windows 7 professional installed on a 16gb SSD. There was a hidden 5gb recovery partition, so that with windows 7 left less than a gig of free space. When I deleted it and expanded the windows 7 partition it worked out fine.
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Alright
No recovery partition unfortunately. Getting to the stage where it just tells me the files can not go haha I am up to 17.2gb though (from 6gb) - so I think I can push - will get it all back after anyway, as I don't intend to dual boot on one SSD..!
Why don't you just put everything on an external HDD and clean install?
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I recently had my 1 tb hdd on my sony laptop replaced with a 180 gig ssd. I let best buy do the switch because it was free and I figured why not. When I got it back with a clean install on the ssd there is only 95 gigs free. The c drive says 95 free out of 129 total. I knew I wouldn't get the whole 180 but why only 129? Just wondered if this is normal or not as this is my first ssd.
It's a matter of multiplication. 2 to the 10th power is 1024, so numerically you get a so-called 180 (or what not) but since the OS reads storage in terms of powers of 2, you get a different number.
Now, on the other hand, 130 seems way too low. I would say to go to disc management and see if there's another partition. Since this is a laptop, it likely has a recovery partition (unless you know your old drive didn't have one).
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Recovery partition is indeed the most likely reason. Disk Management will show you what the full size of the storage device (SSD in your case) is, as well as what volumes ("drives") it contains, and whether there's any unpartitioned space. It will also let you delete and resize partitions.
The easiest way to launch it on Win8 is to right-click the Start button (or hit [Win]+x) and select Disk Management from the menu, although you can also type "disk" into Start search and go to Settings, or type "diskmgmt.msc" and hit [Enter] immediately.
Thanks for the replies. I will check into the disc management.
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Thanks guys I found the disc management and I see that there are 4 other partitions besides my c drive. Would anyone know what ones are safe to delete if any?
OEM : 260 mb
Recovery: 1.44 GB
EFI System: 260 mb
Recovery: 36 GB
Im assuming I should probably keep the OEM and EFI partitions but what about the two recoveries. I have a recovery flash drive which is how the os got flashed to this ssd in the first place.
Thanks again if anyone has time to help me out.
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Thanks guys I found the disc management and I see that there are 4 other partitions besides my c drive. Would anyone know what ones are safe to delete if any?
OEM : 260 mb
Recovery: 1.44 GB
EFI System: 260 mb
Recovery: 36 GB
Im assuming I should probably keep the OEM and EFI partitions but what about the two recoveries. I have a recovery flash drive which is how the os got flashed to this ssd in the first place.
Thanks again if anyone has time to help me out.
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Both of the recoveries should be safe to delete, yea, though you'll have to resize the main partition (not hard, but not really for novices either) to get it back on there.
ROORnNUGZ said:
Thanks guys I found the disc management and I see that there are 4 other partitions besides my c drive. Would anyone know what ones are safe to delete if any?
OEM : 260 mb
Recovery: 1.44 GB
EFI System: 260 mb
Recovery: 36 GB
Im assuming I should probably keep the OEM and EFI partitions but what about the two recoveries. I have a recovery flash drive which is how the os got flashed to this ssd in the first place.
Thanks again if anyone has time to help me out.
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For the amount you gain I would suggest only deleting the 36 Mb partition. Do you really need the extra space?
One expands a partition by deleting the partitions that are not desired and then increasing the size of the active partition. It is not hard to do from the control panel. The only consideration is that to expand a partition, I believe the space has to be adjacent to the existing partition. This means that you may be limited as to which partitions can be retained and still provide a single space for your active partition.
Ok cool I think I will be safe to delete the 36 gig recovery since I have a recovery flash drive. I will look up some more info on deleting and expanding partitions. I'm no expert but I can handle following instructions so I should be able to figure it out. Thanks again.
Expanding a partition is trivial, although (as @stevedebi said) it has to be adjacent (specifically, it must be located directly before) a block of free space. Deleting a partition that is right after your C drive will easily let you expand the C drive. Just right-click the drive (in Disk Management) and select Extend (might be Expand, something like that; it'll be obvious). It will default to using the maximum available size; confirm that dialog and a few seconds late you will have a newly enlarged drive.
The recovery was located right after the c drive so I was able to expand the c drive but first I had to delete the recovery through the command line. I found some you tube instructions and it was easy.
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This is win8 right? Deleting the recovery partition means you can't boot into the recovery environment. Though I was under the impression the recovery partition needed to be only a GB at most, since the actual recovery tools are stored on the main partition.
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This is win8 right? Deleting the recovery partition means you can't boot into the recovery environment. Though I was under the impression the recovery partition needed to be only a GB at most, since the actual recovery tools are stored on the main partition.
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Not sure about other systems, but my Toshiba has the option to make recovery media.
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I had already made a recovery flash drive using the sony software. This is what was used to install windows 8 on the ssd when it was put in. So I assumed that is as good as a recovery partition. Hopefully that is correct. I probably just can't use the refresh pc options anymore and would have to do a clean install with the flash drive. There is also still a 1.44 gig recovery partition that I left. So maybe that smaller one is made by windows and the larger one I deleted was from sony.
Well, I have the Cube i10 Android/Windows Tablet. Nice thing, except maybe the space for the Android OS being a bit too small.
I managed to upgrade my Windows 10 to 10586 and with seperate language pack, it back in my language.
Now i looked around the internet, if I could change the predefined space for either System. (It is possible to increase the partition size of the Andorid OS, but it requires a re-flashing, which I don't neccessarily want. In windows disc-management i saw all the partitions given for android etc, but did not dare to touch something as it was shown in RAW-format. Now i installed a "real" partitioning program (Paragon Partition Manager 15) and it shows me the "real" informations.
Total disk: 28.9 gb (which sums up to ~32gb advertised)
- then a lot of small (5x 16 and 3x 64 and 1x 32mb) GTP partitions, no label, all hidden (i expect these to be android Dalvik, recovery and cache partitions)
- then 4x Linux ext4 partitions (16mb, partially full, 1gb, hardly full, 256mb, half full another almost full 1gb partition) don't know what these are, also all hidden
- then a 3GB Linux ext4 partition (which surely represents the ROM from the Android part, with exact taken/free space data from android)
- then - my problem - a 128mb GPT-Volume, which i can't move
- then the 22.7gb Windows Partition (is resizeable)
- and last, a 450mb hidden backup/windows recovery partition
my problem is, that i can't move the 128mb GPT-Volume. So even if i can split ~2-3gb off the Windows partition, it stays after the GPT volume but it has to be before that to be merged with the android 3gb to make it bigger. I read around that you can delete the GPT-partitions, but don't want to risk it. I "could" merge my 3gb Linux partition with any of the 4 other partitions, but as all of those are not empty, i expect them to be some system recovery backup or whatever. Any information?
I'm afraid that you have to do repartitioning with android flasher and then reinstall Windows too.
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sad, i was afraid that it would be able by editing the partition.tbl file in the rom. Well then i have to stay with the few space i got.
On my axon 7 the guys putting together LOS have I believed shrunk system partition down from 6gb to 3gb. Is something like this possible on my old trusty S4? I ask as after installing LOS 14.1 Nightlies it leaves me with not slot of storage left.
Yes I know it's 16gb and I could add an SD card but I thought I would ask that's all. If we could reduce the system size in file explorer from around 5gb it shows to something less that would be awesome.
Cheees
Ok so read through it again and lineage on the axon 7 is only to use 3gb out of the 6gb partition.
Guessing no way to shrink partition sizes down then.
Cheers
My search-fu seems to be lacking but I can't locate information on resizing the partition of an external disk.
I have a shield 2019 pro. I had been using a 128gb San Disk Extreme Pro USB drive and decided to upgrade to a Samsung PSSD T7 1TB drive. I successfully DD'd an image file and copied it to the new drive without issue. The Shield works just fine with the new SDD, but now I can't figure out how to resize the partition.
I saw the post here about someone successfully doing the same, but they didn't give any real details. I'm a Linux user and figured they used standard tools to resize, but Neither GParted or Gnome-Disks seem to know how to handle the Android partition.
Are there any guides around for this, or is it even possible?
Thanks!