Program opening problem - previous help given

[Bruce]

I'd be getting a bigger m.2 drive myself, but 120GB is doable, you just have to tweak system settings and manage the space more carefully.
we have plenty of laptops at work with 120GB SSD's that work fine.

things like changing the system and user environment variable for TMP and TEMP locations to the HDD, turning off hibernation, moving the pagefile to the HDD, and when installing, change C:\program files\ to, say, D:\program files - that sort of thing.
programs you use a lot, like Office, keep those on C:\, but things like VLC, Adobe, 7Zip, browser cache, iTunes, etc - put all them on the HDD.

 

[PeterOz]

I think gaming is the killer

 

[maramessi]

While I do game on it, I dont think the hardware is given a good seeing to, Civ6 is probably the most intensive game I have and I thought that was pretty soft compared to other games out there.

I am more than confident enough to take the casing off the back to check the hard drive, do you want me to?

 

[maramessi]

Also, general running after initial boot seems to be fine - its just the boot process that is slow.

 

[PeterOz]

I noticed fast boot is off in the bios
if you enable you will most likely have to repair the install.
This is why we try and get windows running at best before installing other things.

Also, general running after initial boot seems to be fine

Since you have loaded a game already, does it play ok?

Civ6 is probably the most intensive game

Not so much how intense
How much disk space it uses.
You can get the drive details from device manager

 

[maramessi]

To be honest, I am more than happy to reboot again - I still have the disk with the media on it and I havent installed all that much.

Big drive is HDD, small drive is SDD

 

[maramessi]

My larger drive isnt even showing up on "my PC" only C drive @ 120gb and CD/DVD drive

 

[PeterOz]

Pic in post #65 shows large drive

 

[maramessi]

Sorry my bad, its the smaller drive that isnt showing.

 

[PeterOz]

Options as I see it.
1) leave as is
2) Turn on fast boot in bios - may need to repair boot with creation tool
3)Open case remove big drive and install windows on M2.
4) upgrade M2 to larger drive and reinstall windows
@Bruce

 

[PeterOz]

Can you open cmd with admin rights
Diskpart enter
list disk enter
Post a screen capture. To do a screen capture in Windows 10 press the windows key and the print screen button together. It will put the image in Pictures>Screenshots

 

[maramessi]

Please see attached.

 

[PeterOz]

So your 120 is still showing.
If you do go to the 120 to reinstall windows then you should really disconnect the 2nd drive.
Windows has a bad habit of putting files across multiple drives.
What can happen is @nd drive has boot record. 2nd drive dies. = computer no boot

 

[maramessi]

Even although it is not showing here? I am more than happy to follow your advice on how to proceed here.

 

[PeterOz]

This is what we are talking about when 2 drives are connected.
My bet is windows has written boot records to 120gig and now has hidden the partition.
Right click start>Disk management
What does it show.

Let's get other opinions about post # 90 @Rustys @Bruce

 

[maramessi]

Here you go ....

 

[PeterOz]

What you could try is use a program like Macrium Reflect (Link in Sig post#81)
Make a bootable usb or cd/dvd (can you burn cd/dvd).
Make an image of current drive
Reinstall image on 120 boot with 120 - should be faster.
Still will have the problem of space on 120

If you do the maths on your pic top line Capacity 930.87 free space 838.09 = 92.78 GB already used.
If you use 120 then it would be (roundup) 120-90 = 30gb free

I hope I am not confusing the issue for you

 

[maramessi]

I must admit it is a little confusing but dont worry.

So why have the drives ended up like this? Was it something I done wrong when I reinstalled windows from the USB media?

 

[PeterOz]

You can try turning on fast start up
ps. First, open the Windows Control Panel. Next, go to the Power Options screen. When there, select the Choose What the Power Button Does option. Finally, click the checkbox for Turn on Fast Startup and hit save.

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[PeterOz]

So why have the drives ended up like this? Was it something I done wrong when I reinstalled windows from the USB media?

Welcome to windows/ computers

I must admit it is a little confusing but dont worry.

What can I try to clear up for you.
In the end you have o be happy with what we do