Disk Partition Management Help

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hamisht

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#242545 2-Nov-2018 19:55

Hi guys,

I'm trying to fix up a laptop I got for a niece of mine. I chucked in an extra 4Gb of ram to take it to 8, thinking this should speed it up just enough to do the basic stuff without too much lag.

I figured that because it's got a 24GB SSD and a regular 750GB drive..

What I didn't realize is how much of a mess the drives are.. they have been paritioned off in a weird format to me. The Operating System isn't on the SSD (Windows 10 should only require less than 24GB).

What I would like to do is just wipe everything and just have the 24GB as one accessible drive (C:) and the 750 as just a storage drive. I'm vaguely familiar with the Disk Management program in Windows, but a lot of these partitions can't be deleted and merged with others.. I right click on some and nothing but the HELP option comes up?

I've got a Windows Media creation USB drive made up ready to re-install windows on the SSD once these drives are sorted out.. could anyone lend a hand to help me figure out how to re-arange these mess just into those two drives?

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yitz

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#2118793 2-Nov-2018 22:10

timmmay:
I wonder if it's non-volatile memory meant to be used for readyboost rather than an SSD? That's a disk cache on a USB stick or internal version. What's the make and model of the laptop?

Yep, definitely this. You will need to install some driver and that will configure the 24GB device as cache.

Some googling reveals it is called ASUS ExpressCache.

Tbh with these machines I would just run the OEM recovery even if it restores the original Windows 8.

OldGeek

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#2118891 3-Nov-2018 10:53

You might want to consider a partition manager app that allows you to manage partitions using a GUI and a range of management options. Partition Wizard (partitionwizard.com) is one such tool - free for non-commercial use. For those of us with occasional exposure to partition management issues this is a great tool.

In your case you can expand the 24-gig drive partition to use the entire SSD, then try using the 'migrate OS to SSD' function. I would expect if the SSD space is not enough a warning would be given.

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