About to shoot my laptop

"Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire" (arch-duke-maxyenko) 09/24/2014 at 19:30 • Filed to: Rage against the machine, fuck you dell, fuck you computers, kinja'd irl

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Who's call was it to set it up to have a partitioned hard drive where the C drive, with the OS on it, to only be 58.5 GB? Seriously, Dell, what the fuck, man? I just want to install Inventor 2015, but it won't let me because I don't have enough room. I have tried to route it to the D drive, which Dell, in their infinite wisdom, decided to give 397 GB. But, alas, it won't let me.

Manuél Ferrari > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 09/24/2014 at 19:32

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system partitions. lol

They remind me of the late 90s

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 09/24/2014 at 19:32

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buildityourselfmasterrace!

Turbo666 > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 09/24/2014 at 19:32

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Oh damn, thought I was going to get a video or gif of you actually shooting it.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Manuél Ferrari 09/24/2014 at 19:33

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FUCKING DELL

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 09/24/2014 at 19:34

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Tell me, how does one build a laptop?

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 09/24/2014 at 19:34

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I believe you can delete a partition and extend the other within Windows. What version are you running?

Kanaric > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 09/24/2014 at 19:34

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If I saw this I would immediately reformat the shit.

Nibby > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 09/24/2014 at 19:34

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Easeus Partition Master; resize C:.

Tis free!

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Nibby 09/24/2014 at 19:35

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How?

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 09/24/2014 at 19:35

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7 something

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 09/24/2014 at 19:36

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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows…

Jedidiah > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 09/24/2014 at 19:36

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How to have a faster computer:

1. Uninstall Windows

2. Install Linux

3. ???

4. Speed!

Nibby > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 09/24/2014 at 19:36

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I can show you how via twitch.tv stream if you like?

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Jedidiah 09/24/2014 at 19:37

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Kinda hard to get Inventor for Linux

Kanaric > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 09/24/2014 at 19:37

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xoticpc.com and sites like that take laptops from MSI and Sager and allow you to customize them.

Pretty much all you do is pick up a laptop by video card, you can put whatever processor you want in it, any ram, and hard drives, etc. Some have internal slots for different kids of wifi and bluetooth cars. Companies played around with laptop video cards that were upgradable but that seems to have died out.

Jedidiah > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 09/24/2014 at 19:38

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Damn. Nevermind.

All the free CAD stuff sucks.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Nibby 09/24/2014 at 19:39

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If you could just write out the steps, that'd be great. Especially if it doesn't wipe my hard drive

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Jedidiah 09/24/2014 at 19:41

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It's full Inventor Professional 2015.

Nibby > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 09/24/2014 at 19:42

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Download the free version and install from here http://www.partition-tool.com/landing/home-d…

Once installed, fire that sucker up and resize the D: (pun)

We want to shrink it a bit, so let's say we make it so that it has 100GB of space BEFORE the partition. Then press apply, wait for it to do its thing (if it asks for restart, then do it). Then you can resize your C: to take over that 100GB so you'll get a larger C: partition and smaller D: partition.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Nibby 09/24/2014 at 19:49

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I'll give it a shot after the browser download finishes/fails

Nibby > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 09/24/2014 at 19:56

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Cool, keep me posted

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Nibby 09/24/2014 at 20:22

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And my laptop is frozen, time to hard reboot.

Manuél Ferrari > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 09/24/2014 at 20:22

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Why do they even do it? Can't everything go on one master partition instead of subdividing the disk?

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Manuél Ferrari 09/24/2014 at 20:24

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Yes, but they fucked this one up.

Manuél Ferrari > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 09/24/2014 at 20:26

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They must have thought you were Nibby. He would prefer it this way because it would let him create other partitions to boot into Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and maybe even Windows ME just to be crazy.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Nibby 09/24/2014 at 20:45

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I'm trying to just use the built in disk manager. It let me shrink the D, but it won't allow me to extend the C.

JGrabowMSt > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 09/24/2014 at 20:47

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Dude, crack open disk management, delete the D: partition, and expand your C: partition. Just make sure you have no data on D:

I do this often for customers. The complicated times are when it's actually an SSD and HDD in the laptop, and they don't know the difference. Then I just pull the SSD, and clone everything to the HDD and leave the SSD out. It isn't worth the trouble of trying to explain it to them if they don't know what they bought.

You can re-map My Documents and the other libraries to the D: drive, and it's not hard, you just need to create those folders on D:, then on the OS partition, right click on the folder name, and designate the new location.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > JGrabowMSt 09/24/2014 at 20:52

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I'm in there now, it won't let me do shit to the C:

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 09/24/2014 at 21:00

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If it can be dismantled, it can be built. as far as I know, some companies offered modular kits for custom laptops.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 09/24/2014 at 21:03

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Windows 7 and up can resize partitions from the Disk manager. If you have Windows 8.1 just right click the start button, "disk management", delete D: (After backing up your stuff) and extend C. I don't think you even have to reboot.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/24/2014 at 21:06

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It wouldn't let me do shit to the C:

Nibby > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 09/24/2014 at 21:28

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Use Easeus.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Nibby 09/24/2014 at 21:30

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I would, but my laptop froze up. I rebooted it and the boot was missing...

uofime > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 09/24/2014 at 21:53

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you have the window's product key on the sticker on the bottom right? then all you need is a window's boot disk and a backup of any important stuff currently on there. just boot off the install disk and tell it you want to do a fresh install I think it will let you re-partition your drive. I'm pretty sure windows will let you do that if not you may need a Ubuntu live disk and then you can definitely use the partitioning tool on that.

It's been a few years since I did this, but its' pretty easy

Nibby > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 09/25/2014 at 08:20

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Try booting from the restore partition or if you have a Windows installer DVD, boot from that and follow this http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/32523/ho…

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Nibby 09/25/2014 at 08:46

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It was running tests when I left it this morning. We'll see how it goes when I get home from work. If something is busted, then I'll just buy a better laptop that will be more suited to running CAD.