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SSD partitioning question

  • 02-03-2013 1:12pm
    #1
    iwb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,398 ✭✭✭


    I had a failing drive in my Dell laptop. I bought a 60GB SSD as I only use about 40GB ever on the old disk. I managed to clone the disk but unfortunately it has a recovery partition. I ended up with only 3GB of space left on the disk and the laptop worked perfectly. Very fast now with SSD.

    I wanted to get back the recovery partition space, so i deleted the partition and extended the C partition into the unused space. The laptop won't boot now. Is there a simple fix, or do I have to leave the recovery partition on there?

    There is a very small partition still on the drive, around 10MB which I haven't messed with at all.

    Thanks.


Comments

  • #2
    Torqay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,835 ✭✭✭Torqay


    I would wipe the disk completely and reinstall the operating system from scratch. Since disk space is a rather scarce commodity on SSDs why would you want to carry over all the "Windows rot" from the old installation anyway. There are other SSD specific settings you'll have to change manually after cloning from a HDD, such as partition alignment, enable TRIM support, disable silent defrag, etc. With a fresh installation, the OS will take care of it automatically.

    In case you ever want to restore the system to factory default, you might keep the old drive image as a backup.


  • #3
    iwb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,398 ✭✭✭iwb


    Thanks for the reply. That was an option but I don't know how to do it. The recovery partition is on the old hard drive. Is there a way to make a boot disk out of it or something?

    If I wanted to just leave it as is and save the hour or two of installing all windows updates and going to look for office licences and so on, is there a way to do it? I had thought it might be a simple thing of just pointing whatever is in the boot partition (I assume that is what the small one is) towards the partition.

    Thanks.


  • #4
    Torqay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,835 ✭✭✭Torqay


    Which operating system? Which Dell model?


  • #5
    iwb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,398 ✭✭✭iwb


    Hi There. It is an Inspiron N5030 running Windows 7


  • #6
    Torqay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,835 ✭✭✭Torqay


    And you don't have a Windows 7 Home Premium installation DVD?

    See if you can "borrow" one. Your OEM license is valid for both, the 32- and the 64-bit version. If your laptop has only 3 GB RAM (the base configuration of this series), 32-bit will be just fine and it requires less disk space than a 64-bit installation.

    If you can't get hold of a installation disk, you should restore the the laptop with the original HDD to its factory default state (backup your personal files first) and then clone the drive. Change the TRIM and defrag settings, uninstall the bloatware (PC Decrapifier will help) and disable hibernation, this will free up disk space equal to the amount of installed physical system memory (you don't need hibernation with a SSD, it will boot fast enough anyway). More info in this SSD tweaking guide.


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