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Discus and support Win 10 and small capacity SSDs- Need help maximizing capabilities in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; Greetings everyone. I needed a super cheap laptop for college and got a Black Friday Dell Inspiron 14 3000 series with W10 Home for a whopping $149.... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by krm944, Dec 8, 2015.

  1. KRM944
    krm944 Win User

    Win 10 and small capacity SSDs- Need help maximizing capabilities


    Greetings everyone.

    I needed a super cheap laptop for college and got a Black Friday Dell Inspiron 14 3000 series with W10 Home for a whopping $149. Have 2 WD pocket drives with 1TB each, I figured the 32G SSD would work just fine and all storage can be done with my externals or even a USB flash drive.

    I know I'm not the only one working with small storage on the C drive, what can be done to optimize and maximize the capabilities of this little laptop to browse the web, write college papers and run iTunes?

    --When I first purchased it, I was able to use both USB drives. Today my one Western Digital shows up as a CD drive? Any ideas how to remedy?

    --I have searched the Tutorials and read that a beta version of 10 allowed users to save apps to D: or E: Drives. This would really really help me out if this could be done today! My "Save Apps" is still grayed out.

    --32G is very small. I cant even download the 5G Win 10 Update! I have stripped all but 3 apps off this laptop and with Win 10 taking about 16G of storage, there simply isn't enough room. Help!

    Thanks

    :)
     
    krm944, Dec 8, 2015
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  2. NOUTA
    nouta Win User

    E51 memory card (max capacity and type)

    Is Nokia E51 capable to use SDHC (4GB, 8GB) or MicroSD only, and what is its maximal capacity (1GB, 2GB?). Thanks.
     
    nouta, Dec 8, 2015
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    Greg Carmack - Windows MVP Win User
    Greg Carmack - Windows MVP, Dec 8, 2015
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  4. KYHI
    Kyhi Win User

    Win 10 and small capacity SSDs- Need help maximizing capabilities

    first THING on that Dell Laptop > go into control Panel > recovery > create a recovery drive...

    This will copy the factory recovery image to a recovery USB...

    DELL usually will write the recovery image twice in the recovery partition, thus the recovery partition is twice the size needed..
    Thus robbing freespace from C:\

    I would like to see a pic of the contains in the SOURCES folder on the recovery usb before we process..
    As there are two files I would like to read first..

    we will proceed by booting from that recovery usb and resetting the laptop and partitions..
     
    Kyhi, Dec 8, 2015
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  5. KRM944
    krm944 Win User
    Headed to get a USB Drive now!

    I tried pulling the Win 10 update and I was able to get the 5G update to download to the external hard drive. Its 5G so that process is slow!
     
    krm944, Apr 4, 2018
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