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Filling Up the Hard Drive on a Tablet PC

The 60 GB hard drive on my Tablet PC is full. This is the first time I have ever filled up a Tablet PC hard drive. Sure, other machines are stuffed, but never full. Once more, the contents are the Microsoft programs and my dissertation. Nothing else sits on the 60 GB drive. When I saw the notice last night that the drive was filled, I started to search around to delete items. There are some backup copies of the dissertation in a folder and so these will be off-loaded but otherwise I’m stuck with having outgrown the drive.

Any suggestions on what to do now? Should I move to an external drive for the dissertation? What solutions have you come up with for solving a filled hard drive?

Published Tuesday, July 04, 2006 11:43 AM by Layne P. Heiny

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minimage said:

I bought a 100gb drive and a 40-pin to 44-pin adapter at CompUSA. Sure, it would have been cheaper on the net, but I had gift cards.  Since I partition my drives and keep only the essentials on the first partition, it was no big deal to use the adapter to add the old drive to a PC and make a backup image of the boot partition with Drive Image Pro.  I then swapped the drives and put the image on the new drive.  the contents of the other partitions (data and backup) were transferred by sticking the old drive into a USB enclosure.

Granted, I had only a 30gb drive, and 1/3 of it was the backup partition.   However, if the PC's drive space were an issue, I'd compress the image or get two adapters and do a direct drive-to-drive.  I think I've read that some of the imaging programs will work with USB, but I don't have any of those.

And I did verify with tech support that my warranty would not be invalidated by my actions :)

Let's not discuss what issues I'm having with a filled 100gb drive :O
July 6, 2006 7:13 AM
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