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    Just got another 8.32 GB of HDD space...

    Discussion in 'HP' started by suland, Aug 7, 2007.

  1. suland

    suland Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi guys, I have just got another 8.32 GB of useful space in my 160GB HDD. Made recovery discs and erased that recovery partition without reinstalling anything. Made it for Music files!
     
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    nice i bought the disks and made the copies but i have yet to delete the partition all you have to do it go to is recovery manager advanced options and then check remove recovery partition right? mabey ill do it later tonight then does it just add that space to your c drive? or is ther still a d drive
     
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  3. orev

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    I remember seeing an option for expanding your C: drive, which IMO is the smart thing to do. Having a separate partition is a pain from a management standpoint.
     
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    i clean installed XP and i just deleted all partitions and merged them into 1

    there are many different ways you can use your space

    :)
     
    mujjuman, Aug 7, 2007
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    mikelets456 Notebook Consultant

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    You'll gain another 12-15 GB if you "disable" restore points. i do it manually and on a 80 GB HD I gained about 9 GB!!!!
     
    mikelets456, Aug 7, 2007
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    In addition to completely disabling restore points, you can also change how much Vista uses. This still lets you have some backup, but not using 15% (default) of the disk. There's a howto on lifehacker for this. I turned it down from 20G to 4G on my system.
     
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    I have just deleted the recovery files from that partition and renamed it. All this in Control Panel Administration Tools. It was as easy as to delete a file. Did not remove the partition. Vista restore feature disabling made another 15Gb of space!
     
    suland, Aug 7, 2007
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