errodiel
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- Newcastle, UK
Sorry if this is the wrong sub-forum; it seemed the best place.
My PC is exactly as listed in my profile specs. We added an SSD a month or so ago, and have been really happy with performance; we used this Lifehacker guide to migrate windows 8 to the SSD without re-installing. It all went smoothly, and now Windows is on the SSD (C and we have a 1TB Seagate barracuda as our D: drive. Browsers, anti-malware etc are installed on C:, but all data (My Documents, games, etc) are on D:.
We had noticed the C: drive filling up a little so have performed some tweaks: hibernation, system restore and defragging are all disabled. When we went into disk management to see where all our space was, we've noticed a 28.49GB partition which is marked "system reserved" and designated as a primary partition. There is then the standard C: partition (labelled primary, boot etc). There's then 349MB unallocated. The C: drive has a windows folder which is about 16GB; windows therefore has about 45GB of our 120GB hard drive at this point.
I can't for the life of me remember how the partitions looked when the SSD was freshly installed, but I seem to remember having a lot more space. So what in heck is this 28GB partition? All my googling finds reference to windows 8 needing a 100-350MB system reserved partition, not this monster. The only thing I can think of is that we tried to upgrade to windows 8.1, but the install failed. We've tried a couple more times, but gave up as a bad job (planning to wait for other people to do the de-bugging and trouble-shooting before we try again). That download was in the region of 30GB; is it now just sitting in this massive partition? If so, how do we get rid; just remove the partition? If not...what is it?!
Sorry if this is a little incoherent, I'm moderately over-caffeinated today...
My PC is exactly as listed in my profile specs. We added an SSD a month or so ago, and have been really happy with performance; we used this Lifehacker guide to migrate windows 8 to the SSD without re-installing. It all went smoothly, and now Windows is on the SSD (C and we have a 1TB Seagate barracuda as our D: drive. Browsers, anti-malware etc are installed on C:, but all data (My Documents, games, etc) are on D:.
We had noticed the C: drive filling up a little so have performed some tweaks: hibernation, system restore and defragging are all disabled. When we went into disk management to see where all our space was, we've noticed a 28.49GB partition which is marked "system reserved" and designated as a primary partition. There is then the standard C: partition (labelled primary, boot etc). There's then 349MB unallocated. The C: drive has a windows folder which is about 16GB; windows therefore has about 45GB of our 120GB hard drive at this point.
I can't for the life of me remember how the partitions looked when the SSD was freshly installed, but I seem to remember having a lot more space. So what in heck is this 28GB partition? All my googling finds reference to windows 8 needing a 100-350MB system reserved partition, not this monster. The only thing I can think of is that we tried to upgrade to windows 8.1, but the install failed. We've tried a couple more times, but gave up as a bad job (planning to wait for other people to do the de-bugging and trouble-shooting before we try again). That download was in the region of 30GB; is it now just sitting in this massive partition? If so, how do we get rid; just remove the partition? If not...what is it?!
Sorry if this is a little incoherent, I'm moderately over-caffeinated today...
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 x64
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- CPU
- Intel i5-3570k
- Motherboard
- Asus P8Z77-LX
- Memory
- 8GB Corsair Vengenace 1600Mhz DDR3
- Graphics Card(s)
- Sapphire HD 7870 GHZ OC edition
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 37" Samsung LCD TV
- Screen Resolution
- 1080-, 60Hz
- Hard Drives
- Kingston HyperX 3K 2.5-inch 120GB SSD;
Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm HDD
- PSU
- Corsair Builder series CX 500watt
- Case
- Zalman Z9 Plus midi tower
- Internet Speed
- 60gb
- Browser
- Firefox/Chrome
- Antivirus
- AVG free