Thread: What would you do - Windows Drive - Big or Small

I'd go as big as I could with both drives, especially the C drive.

Remember that the Law of Sheds [1] applies to computers.

[1]. The Law of Sheds states that the amount of "stuff" will always expand to fit the available space.

128g is not big enough for windows 10 for long term use.

256g min

seeing it a lot lately and have done a couple in the last week or two, no room on 128 even with all the user directories mapped to a second drive after 6 months or so of use.

Thanks for those comments - makes it clear cut then - the 500SSD for Windows etc and the 128 for my other stuff.

Now all I need to do is copy the 128 over to the 500 and redesignate the 500 as C drive and the 128 as D drive - this last bit is harder than I expected as you cannot change it when it is in use.

Cheers

garry

I don't want to get into the whole Mac v Windows thing here, but I have an iMac with 3 TB, one TB of which is SSD. Apple use a thing called Fusion Drive, which apparently works out which stuff you use most and parks that on the SSD. This Mac is 5 years old, so I'm tipping that there will be a Windows feature that does the same thing. I have no benchmarks, apart from GeekBench, to suggest they are right, but I have never seen anything to see that they are wrong. Apple have a habit of being at the forefront, although admittedly less so these days. But Fusion Drive at PC level was something.

I run all my core programs on C drive (SSD) Windows, Firewall, Antivirus.

Beyond that everything is moved to another drive. All non critical programs get installed on a different drive.

Even my desktop resides on another drive other than C.

Its been years since i have investigated the SSDs but i was under the impression they dont like being rewritten so its best to keep all non critical stuff else where ie standard drive.

Originally Posted by garrycol

Thanks for those comments - makes it clear cut then - the 500SSD for Windows etc and the 128 for my other stuff.

Now all I need to do is copy the 128 over to the 500 and redesignate the 500 as C drive and the 128 as D drive - this last bit is harder than I expected as you cannot change it when it is in use.

Cheers

garry

Ok "cloned" the Windows M.2 drive across to the 500gb SSD and it seems it copied everything but not the boot stuff. Used different software with the same result. The boot descriptor stays it with the M.2 drive. To double check, I even removed the M.2 drive and rebooted with just the 500gb SSD with windows on it but the laptop had a dummy spit with windows not loading and error messages everywhere.

So if the 128 is not going to be big enough I rang a supplier of M.2 drives to see what was available and he indicated that putting in a bigger drive will mean a clean install which I would rather do now as I only have Win 10 (not sure how I do a reinstal of Windows as the laptop did not come with any product codes for windows - I have tried downloading the iso file etc from the Microsoft site but it does not work).

So on the look out for a new M.2 drive.

Oh don't buy a Chinese designed designed laptop - the hardware is fine but the software that runs things like bios is absolute crap (a lot like the crap menus in my Soniq TV) - clunky and not logical and difficult to use.

This Lenovo might end on Gumtree before too long - a bit of a disappointment.

A free software like imgburn should burn your iso without any issues.
Its what i use when i burn a disk but i prefer to mount the iso to a usb stick.
If thats the method you want then i suggest rufus and point it to your iso image. Should be fine unless its a corrupt file which happens from time to time.

Yes that is what I was trying to do but with different software - however the iso is downloaded from the microsoft website and then copied to the USB stick - not sure if the laptop modifies the downloaded file to include additional relevant computer information.

Any way when I first tried I had an old 32gb usb stick which worked fine on my Win 7 computer. When I put it into the Win 10 machine (noting I have never used Win 10) it said the stick would need formatting but then said the stick was not readable. Put it back into the old computer and all was fine - I reformatted it there and put it pack in the Win 10 machine with same response - still worked fine in the old computer - checking it was in Fat 32 format so I reformatted it to NFTS and when put back into the Win 10 machine it now worked fine (so I guess Win 10 cannot read Fat 32 usbs)

Tried to download the ISO again and copy to the USB and it failed halfway - on checking the USB if was no longer NFTS but back in Fat32 - the computer did that all by itself - bit could not then read the USB

I went and bought a new USB3 32gb stick thinking it would work and the same thing - when the USB is in NFTS the Win10 machine can read it but somewhere in the ISO copying process the formatting changes back to Fat32 which the Win10 system cannot read.

I do not like Win 10 - why Windows keeps taking out some of the functionality of operating systems when they upgrade is beyond me.