"Free space" doesn't really help.
Need to know "occupied space", counting ONLY the HDD and the external, omitting the SSD.
First copies ONLY; not backups or second copies.
Trying to...
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"Free space" doesn't really help.
Need to know "occupied space", counting ONLY the HDD and the external, omitting the SSD.
First copies ONLY; not backups or second copies.
Trying to...
You still haven't answered the question.
I know the size of your hard drives.
I do NOT know how much data you have.....excluding second copies, backups. Just the "original" first copies.
If...
Personally..........I don't want the cloud. For reasons of speed, privacy, and reliance on an Internet connection.
I want local only.
Suit yourself.
Getting a new external?? More rank...
Yes....with the understanding that if you make a mistake or have a power outage or god knows what, you could be in a bind.
Which of course means you should have everything on F backed up somewhere...
Never used Easus for that purpose, but "combining" volumes is terminology I wouldn't expect.
More often its resize or delete.
You can do it to an extent with Windows Disk Management but it has...
Rule of thumb size: 50 to 60 percent of the sum of the occupied space on whatever partitions are included in the image.
Your C is about 100?
Figure 50 to 60 for the image. You'd want to include...
There is a free version and a paid version.
Free will do all you need.
Macrium Software | Macrium Reflect Free
Don't worry about that till you get your current problem solved.
There's an...
Even if it worked, the HP recovery partition would return you to "factory specs".......Windows 7 I assume. Who wants that?
You've already lost "the official operating system that came out of the...
You can certainly do that with an application like Macrium Reflect.
In my opinion, that method would be more complex and time consuming than simply extending F with one of the tools mentioned.
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Yeah.......If you can't extend F to ALL of the unallocated space with Disk Management, you can use the free Minitool Partition Wizard to do it. It does not have the limitations of Disk Management.
Yeah, Disk Management should do it.
I'm not sure why you'd need that HP recovery partition either, but you can worry about that later.
Deleting those partitions should leave a bunch of...
No, you don't "open the processor".
You would shut down the PC and then open the case.
Locate the hard drive, not the SSD.
The hard drive will have 2 cables connected to it. Disconnect them....
Observations from your picture:
Yes, Disk 0 appears to be your SSD, 500 GB total capacity; only about 100 used.
Notice that your "system" partition is on Disk 1. Not disk 0. I think that means...
What is the total capacity of the external?
You say "most essential data". How many GB is that?
Is your operating system backed up at all.....or just your "most essential data"?
There's no...
That would be the rankest of speculation.
Ten hours, ten months, ten years. Pick one.
You should assume 10 hours and therefore have multiple copies of anything of value on the hard...
Post a screen shot of Windows Disk Management.
You have mentioned 2 partitions......C and "Data".
You likely have more than that.
But you are backing up ONLY C and "Data".
Why?
Do you have a System Restore point?
Prior to today, when did you last successfully access Device Manager?
I would assume your boot drive has several partitions.....C plus several others.
Do you back up ONLY the C partition?
Have you completely rejected the idea of a LOCAL system backup rather than relying on OneDrive?
Monthly image is good....but I'd hate to rely on imaging at all for data backup, particularly when data is changing hour to hour.
System Restore can fail to run to completion, but it can sometimes...
I think you are out of luck.
I searched HP site based on the "System SKU" shown in your picture. See link below.
2 RAM slots; max 8 GB total; max 4 GB in any single slot.
Which is what you...
What motherboard do you have?
That should be mentioned in the motherboard specifications.
Go to the motherboard maker's web site and start pounding on the "support" area for documentation.
...
The Intel 2600 was a legendary processor in its time....but that was 10 or 12 years ago.
A change from 8 to 16 gb RAM is noticeable only in certain circumstances....if you have high expectations...
I'd think the best way to not "risk loosing it all" is to have more than 1 backup..................regardless of the size of the drives.
Thank you Jack for the screenshot