Asus N71J assistance request

Working on this for a friend. Situation is this, C: is out of space. It appears this unit has 2 320 HD's. I cant make an image via windows before using partition wizard, it says I don't have enough space: 2 tera drive?

I also cant make the recovery disks, get the "Failed to modify the WinPE Boot Image" error. I don't feel confident in the resize process without the image backup.

Any thoughts or help would be appreciated.

DISK 0: 14.65 GB Healthy Primary, OS C: 74.5 NTFS Healthy System, New Volume D: 111 GB NTFS Healthy Logical (empty), New Volume H: 97.66 Healthy Page file - 93 gig free.

DISK 1: F: NTFS 149 Healthy Primary - 126 empty, G NTFS 149 - 77 empty

 

I don't quite understand that last part.

What are you trying to designate the image file to save to?

 

The last part is the breakdown for the 2 disks: Disk 0 and Disk 1, the 2 hard drives in the machine.

I was attempting to image them to a 2 tera byte dr, but everytime I tried, it would error out and say not enough space. Makes no sense to me but I read it has to do with shadow copies.

I have the drive imaged now and have used partition wizard to change its size on a new drive.

The only answer that remains is, when I look down at the underside where the hard drives are, 12 o'clock position, I don't know which is the c drive!

 

What was the solution to getting the installation finally imaged?

C: should be whatever drive is the lowest number in the SATA port order (probably port 0 or port 1). THAT is something you'll have to play around with; you can remove one drive and boot into BIOS to see which port is which. I doubt the board has the port number printed on it, but if it does, you can lead off of that!

Although this response is coming nearly a full day later, so you're probably way ahead of me by now.

 

I bought a new 320 HD and put it in a USB dock.

Booted to Acronis, imaged the c top the new drive in the usb dock.

Then rebooted PC to Partition Wizard DVD, viewed all 3 drives, then increased the size of the C drive on the new clone disk 3 in Partition Wizard. Shutdown laptop.

Removed one drive and looked at it in a dock on another PC and determined it was not "c drive." Removed other drive and replaced with new re partitioned drive and Boom, there it is!

While I have accomplished what they want, I still cannot make the recovery DVD's and there appears to be some left over old damage done by a malware or virus, when in IE11, cant go to some Microsoft websites or download.

 

I was wondering about that when you had initially brought up not being able to clone or create a recovery disc a couple of posts back. Are you considering a format + reload, then?

 

No, they don't want to do that. I asked them if they wanted to do win 10 and learn it, they said no! Said they will buy a new PC when forced out of win 7.

 

Got it. Fair enough. One can really see the disdain for upgrading Windows when a person is willing to stick with a damaged OS rather than obtain a new one for free.

Thanks for all the follow ups.