How to increase memory drive C from drive D in Swift 1 114 32 C924 / model N17W6?

Patrickvdh
Patrickvdh Member Posts: 15 Troubleshooter
edited October 6 in Swift and Spin Series

Dear,

SWIFT1 114 32 C924 / model N17W6

I replaced orignal HDD with SSD ESO 860 500GB:

Drive C is running short, hence my questions:

1/ is it possible to delete users from drive, while it's also in double on drive D?

Up part of below os drive C:

2/ Is it possible to move memory space from D to C?

I tried 10X using "Ease US Partition" (and Samsung Magician) but didn't managed, then I created volume "E", but still can't merge/increase size of drive C (and have now unnecessary drive E !)

Many thanks!

[Edited the thread to add model number to the title]

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  • sri369
    sri369 ACE Posts: 2,774 Pathfinder
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    Correct. You are basically out of options, sorry. Please pick an answer that helped you so this thread could be marked as "answered".

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  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 34,313 Trailblazer
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    No there is a much better option. Make sure you haven't put anything on the larger drive that is important by copying that off. Next use disk cloning software to clone the eMMC drive to the new SSD. Reboot, go into the BIOS and enable the boot menu, save and exit. Enter the boot menu on the restart and choose the new, big drive as your boot drive. Open Disk Management in Windows and remove all partitions on the eMMC drive, then create one full sized data partition on it. Once done with those steps your C: will be much larger, since it will be 457GB, D: will be just under 60GB and you will be good to go. The eMMC drive will eventually fail, typically after a few years, but until then you can use it for file history backups.

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  • sri369
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    Windows on smaller/unsafe drive is always recommended with data folders on a better drive; this works well to keep data safe in case the windows drive fails or windows fails for any reason.

    Keeping both windows and data on the same drive is not a safe option, unless you have set up your data backup to one drive constantly (the way how work laptops are set up).

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  • sri369
    sri369 ACE Posts: 2,774 Pathfinder

    Your windows disk has a total capacity of 60GB; you need to replace it with a bigger one for more space.

    If you want more available space on Windows drive, you can map the folders under "user" to a different drive. In fact this is what i do to avoid windows crashes killing my data - mapping my documents folders to a non windows drive. Here is the post I had made about partitioning this way - https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/646039/recommendation-setting-up-disks-and-partitions-on-windows-nitro-7-an715-51

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  • Patrickvdh
    Patrickvdh Member Posts: 15 Troubleshooter

    Thank you Sri.

    Thanks to your adives, I (beginner) begin to understand.

    I realized my swift1 114 32 C92Y, does have 2 separated disks:

    SK Hynix hC8aP = eMMC 64GB; 4 GB RAM & 64 GB Space ⇒ it is soldered meaning impossible to replace by larger (e.g.128 GB).

    Hence I only can move datas on C to D using following advice: https://generationcloud.fr/post/disque-dur-invisible-windows-10

    https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/s38s5p/can_i_move_my_users_folder_from_my_c_drive_to_my/

    Many thanks for all your supports to Sri and acer community!

    Patrick

  • sri369
    sri369 ACE Posts: 2,774 Pathfinder
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  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 34,313 Trailblazer
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    No there is a much better option. Make sure you haven't put anything on the larger drive that is important by copying that off. Next use disk cloning software to clone the eMMC drive to the new SSD. Reboot, go into the BIOS and enable the boot menu, save and exit. Enter the boot menu on the restart and choose the new, big drive as your boot drive. Open Disk Management in Windows and remove all partitions on the eMMC drive, then create one full sized data partition on it. Once done with those steps your C: will be much larger, since it will be 457GB, D: will be just under 60GB and you will be good to go. The eMMC drive will eventually fail, typically after a few years, but until then you can use it for file history backups.

    Click on "Like" if you find my answer useful or click on "Yes" if it answers your question.
  • sri369
    sri369 ACE Posts: 2,774 Pathfinder
    Answer ✓

    Windows on smaller/unsafe drive is always recommended with data folders on a better drive; this works well to keep data safe in case the windows drive fails or windows fails for any reason.

    Keeping both windows and data on the same drive is not a safe option, unless you have set up your data backup to one drive constantly (the way how work laptops are set up).

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  • Patrickvdh
    Patrickvdh Member Posts: 15 Troubleshooter

    Thank you very much for your both supports.

    I really helped me.

    Take care

    Patrick