Extending boot partition (Vista)

[danielf]

Originally Posted by zing

Move the Page file over also make it a static file on D

Like here?

That looks good, and should get me over 2 gig, plus some performance gain (hopefully).

http://joshmouch.wordpress.com/2007/...tion-in-vista/ this looks like full info on how to change USER directory location

That looks scary!

yeah just make sure page on C: is set to off set it to user managed ( or similar) on D nd make bottom and top limits the same . I would make them 4000 each

As for the other looking scary lol I am looking for an easier way for ya

[Aragorn]

Originally Posted by danielf

. I guess I could reduce the amount of space available for system restore (that's what shadowcopy is isn't it?), but I'd rather not.

System Restore and Shadow Copy are different things. You are very unlikely to need Shadow Copy on a laptop. On my new laptop it was using 18Gb of wasted space. From a cmd prompt, "vssadmin list shadowstorage" will show what is allocated.

[danielf]

Originally Posted by Aragorn

System Restore and Shadow Copy are different things. You are very unlikely to need Shadow Copy on a laptop. On my new laptop it was using 18Gb of wasted space. From a cmd prompt, "vssadmin list shadowstorage" will show what is allocated.

It says currently allocated 5 Gig with a maximum of 9and a bit, which is 15% of the HD space. I'm pretty sure that what I read on shadowstorage suggested that reducing the allocated size will limit system restore points though?

Like here for example.

Edit: page file is now on D. 2.5 Gig gained on C

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Originally Posted by zing

As for the other looking scary lol I am looking for an easier way for ya

This looks easier, but still scary...

ive tried a couple of ways in a vm and they made a mess I will try that way and report back

[Aragorn]

Yes, it shares the space now but you shouldn't need 9Gb. I've set mine down to 2Gb and with two restore points it's using 460Mb.

As for moving profiles - in most cases just moving the Documents, Music etc special folders should be sufficient, which is very easy (shown at top of your last link).

[danielf]

Originally Posted by Aragorn

Yes, it shares the space now but you shouldn't need 9Gb. I've set mine down to 2Gb and with two restore points it's using 460Mb.

Ah. ok. I'll do that.

As for moving profiles - in most cases just moving the Documents, Music etc special folders should be sufficient, which is very easy (shown at top of your last link).

Presumably, I can simply move the desktop folder for the two accounts? Seeing that's where most of the data live/get saved, that would probably give me sufficient space and make sure that most future data makes it to the D drive.

I don't think junction points are an option

couldnt get that to work either

[danielf]

Originally Posted by zing

couldnt get that to work either

Thanks for trying. I think I've created sufficient space now. Last night I had 5 Gig left, which went up to about 18 after disk cleanup, deleting restore points etc. I have since:

- Moved the page file
- Reduced shadowstorage to 2GB.
- Moved my desktop folder to the D drive.
- Noticed that the Spotify storage directory on C takes up 1Gig, so moved that to D as well.

I currently have 28 Gig free and, with the changes I made, I think it'll take a while for that to be filled up. Thankfully, I was able to do this without touching any of the wife's folders/settings (she has about 5 Gig on C), so she can just carry on as she was rather than having to fit into my regime.

Thanks for all the help guys. It's much appreciated

[Matty_]

Do you use the Hibernation feature on the laptop?

If not you can remove Hiberfile.sys by doing "powercfg.exe -h off" form an elevated Cmd prompt. Could save you up to 2 Gb