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shezza2
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I am not that up on techie stuff so does this look right to you........can see no mention of 2TB as per sales description.
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Well does not look like it! C: looks about right for the ssd.However to save a lot of pain just bring up disk management. Type "disk man" in the search and "create and format hard disk partitions" will come up. Select that and lok at the disks in the lower part (not the partition list above). Alwasy gives an easier overview there.0
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Its hidden, along with the thread description in the title.
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Are you sure you get both SSD and HDD? Or is it a choice between the two?
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Looks like bothstragglebod said:Are you sure you get both SSD and HDD? Or is it a choice between the two?
https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/desktop-pcs/desktop-pcs/dell-xps-8930-intel-core-i7-desktop-pc-2-tb-hdd-512-gb-ssd-black-10193823-pdt.html
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This is what comes up.............Carrot007 said:Well does not look like it! C: looks about right for the ssd.However to save a lot of pain just bring up disk management. Type "disk man" in the search and "create and format hard disk partitions" will come up. Select that and lok at the disks in the lower part (not the partition list above). Alwasy gives an easier overview there.
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Yes so it is what was advertised, just that for some reason the Data drive is only half partitioned. That's your 2Tb drive.Easy to rectify, you can right-click on it and Extend Volume.0
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As Neil says, most (95% !) of your D drive is not accessible - extend it!
Your second problem (well not yet) is that all your games are stored on your C drive and so you're running out of room there. Not an issue yet, because there's 33GB left, but one day soon, Windows will start to complain.If you put your general location in your Profile, somebody here may be able to come and help you.1 -
Ha, so it was setup by a moron!Even the SSD looks odd. With win 10 there is no need for 3 recovery partitions and some unused space.HD is easy to sort out. right click and extend partiton and use all the space.SSD is harder but as people have mentioned you are using far too much of it. I would get a win 10 usb install media created. Do a fresh install and delete all partitons from disk 1 and then select the unpartitioned space for the install. Yes it's a pain. It will make life easier. And then start installing stuff og the HD. Most games really do not benefit much from being on the SSD. They would have to be designed for it. Yes with NG consoles and such it is coming and will make a difference. But right now not so much. Again yes reinstalling is a pain. But I do it now and then. And go to the pre release windows if it is nearing release, well I did last time, the last release was so delayed. (and yes if you are one of the unlucky with odd hardware you can always go to the release, always seems to work for me so far!).0
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@Carrot007
"Even the SSD looks odd. With win 10 there is no need for 3 recovery partitions and some unused space."
I thought so at first,but I think the extra partitions are for the Dell specific add-ons on the system(mainly junk I would guess).
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