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    RapidDrive vs SSD/SATA combo

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Fletchman1313, Dec 15, 2011.

  1. Kshow

    Kshow Newbie

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    Hey
    I have a Lenovo Y480. It came with a 32GB solid state and a 1TB hard. But with Rapid Boot, C: has all the hard drive space except for 24GB which has been put to the D drive. I have tried everything i can to increase the partition size of D to atleast 500GB so i can put in my other files. But have failed :(
    I know i cant make any new virtual drives coz the max no has been made. :( but only ended up resetting the computer into factory default like 9times.
    Finally i quit for fear of harming the hard drives by reseting so much!

    Any help would be great!
     
    Kshow, Aug 9, 2012
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  2. Fletchman1313

    Fletchman1313 Notebook Consultant

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    I copied everything from D: to a thumb drive. Then I deleted the D: partition, shrunk the C: partition, combined the unallocated partitions and named it D:
     
    Fletchman1313, Aug 9, 2012
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  3. popolocroix

    popolocroix Notebook Enthusiast

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    hi Fletchman,

    May I ask how did you install the rapiddrive? without getting boot drive corruption?

    I did try a clean install before and my c drive gets corrupted after installing all drivers and some softwares for some unknown reason..

    Did you do a clean install? and how? any special steps?
     
    popolocroix, Feb 19, 2013
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  4. Fletchman1313

    Fletchman1313 Notebook Consultant

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    It was pretty much automatic. I never did do a clean install, however. All I ever did were OKR restores.
     
    Fletchman1313, Feb 19, 2013
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  5. popolocroix

    popolocroix Notebook Enthusiast

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    hey fletchman thanks for your answer, and btw.. can you check your hdd partitions in disk management? is it in gpt mode or mbr mode?

    im still wondering how to enable rapiddrive with clean OS installation.. does anyone here had a luck with rapiddrive enabled system with clean install of OS?
     
    popolocroix, Feb 25, 2013
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  6. Fletchman1313

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    MBR mode. I have the original drives in place with the Lenovo-modified Windows OS.
     
    Fletchman1313, Feb 26, 2013
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