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    Extending C: drive & Display won't turn on when awakened

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by VindictiveGnome, Aug 4, 2011.

  1. VindictiveGnome

    VindictiveGnome Notebook Geek

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    Sometimes when I open the lid of my M11x (which awakens it from sleep mode) the display won't turn on. The keyboard and lights are all on, but the display is just black. I have to hold the power off button to restart it. Also, when I first bought the laptop it awakened out of sleep quick. I didn't have to wait several long seconds before clicking a program to run. Now, everytime I awaken it, I have to wait thirty seconds before clicking Chrome or something becuase it will not respond. Only after it catches up I guess can I resume browsing. Anybody have any ideas?

    Edit: First question was answered thanks to hermitmaster. Thanks!
     
    VindictiveGnome, Aug 4, 2011
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    hermitmaster Notebook Consultant

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    You can only extend to an adjacent partition. Extend D: until only 8.79 gb is unallocated, create a new partition, copy the recovery patition to the new partition. Finally you can delete the original recovery partition and extend C: to fill the space. Hope this helps!
     
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    It worked! Thank you so much!
     
    VindictiveGnome, Aug 4, 2011
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    Glad I could help. :)
     
    hermitmaster, Aug 4, 2011
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