I never did get Win10 running on an HP laptop with a 32Gb drive. I gave up and went Linux, which now leaves me about 21 gb to work with.
I didn't know that Microsoft provides support. First I have heard about it! Duncan > | From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <[email protected]> > > | SanDisk Cruzer Glide 16GB USB stick > > | 7135559680 bytes (7.1 GB, 6.6 GiB) copied, 1560.63 s, 4.6 MB/s > | real 26m4.152s > > ================ > > Corsair Voyager SliderX1 32G stick: > > 7135559680 bytes (7.1 GB, 6.6 GiB) copied, 279.491 s, 25.5 MB/s > real 4m44.206s > > ================ > > ADATA C103 USB Flash Drive 64G > > 7135559680 bytes (7.1 GB, 6.6 GiB) copied, 155.161 s, 46.0 MB/s > real 2m38.244s > > ================ > > (the real time includes the second or two that it takes me to enter my > password.) > > ================ > > [A slightly relevant Windows war story. Really a whine. Consider > skipping.] > > I've been wrestling with Win10. It really isn't good doing Windows > Update with a 32G "HDD". > > Why should it handle this size? Because Microsoft forced this size upper > limit on manufacturers with their licensing terms. I even bought a > few such machines from Microsoft itself. (They run Linux just fine.) > > I recently got stuck with not enough space on C: (think /root). Even > when I threw everything overboard. One possible victim was left: the > Paging File. It was stubbornly stuck at 1.1GiB. I wanted to put a > paging file on another drive so that I could get back the 1.1G of > space on C:. > > The documentation says that this is possible with a USB stick or SD > card iff it was ReadyBoost ready. That supposedly means "fast > enough". > > - ReadyBoost is an obsolete technology. Vendors don't sell ReadyBoost > ready devices > > - there is a ReadyBoost tab when you look at device properties in > Win10. It just tells me that it is disabled on my computer because > I have an SSD c:. Not useful. I want to know about ReadyBoost > ready, not actually use ReadyBoost. > > - the Paging File configuration setting (buried way deep in Win10) > doesn't see my USB flash sticks or my SD card. > > - the Paging File configuration setting does see an external USB HDD. > So I try that. > > When I reboot, Win10 says that it has to temporarily create the > Paging File on C:. So this is no advance. > > - Microsoft Support struggle with understanding the issue. When they > do, they give useless advice. > --- > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
