Oscer, thanks for yours. Prior to your posting it, I decided to reinstall W10 while I was waiting for ideas. It has been an incredibly slow, start and restart process, but I have just set up w10 with...

Ed, thanks for the article, which is unfortunately a bit over my head. I am happy to work on it as long as I am not working on an unreachable goal. So to cut to the chase, is it possible to implement...

Are you thinking of a sound card that goes into one of the mobo slots? This HP Touchsmart is an All In One, and would need a special sort of sound card, so may not be a financially attractive option....

Perhaps I should look for a more active forum. Any recommendations, anyone?

Thanks for that. I had previously plugged the drive into her linux computer, but when it mounted, I had not noticed that there were two partitions (partly because the Win partition showed up as...

Disk management shows two partitions, one of 428GB, the other 1,465GB. The smaller one is NTFS and the larger one is EXT4. This might have happened when the drive was used to back up a linux...

We have a 2.5" DTC820 Toshiba 2T USB portable HDD. Right clicking and choosing properties on our Win10 home computer shows:

Used 70 GB
Free 358 GB
Capacity 428 GB

Other portable USB HDD's...

Does MS not have an embedded command that will do this? WinKey + ??

I use multiple workspaces (desktops?) in Win 10 to keep content segregated. Sometime I have several windows open in a single workspace, but minimized.

Sometimes I want to open all minimized...

HP desktop i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz 3.41GHz 16GB RAM Win 10 Home

While this computer has a good amount of RAM, it goes from restart to "severely congested/slow to resumefrom sleep" fairly quickly (a...

I went ahead with the linux install on the SSD, and so far that seems to be progressing OK.

Haven't tried to boot into Windows yet, but as soon as I can figure out how to get Ubuntu Mate online, I...

Andre, Just saw your #32, which I think might have crossed with my 33. Just to make absolutely sure that we are all on the same page with this, the SSD will boot into Ubuntu Mate 18.04, OR Win 10 on...

Andre, thanks. Learned that an dell xps 8700 i7-4790 motherboard has no M.2 slot, so an adapter is required.

Given my rather unexceptional needs, think I will just stay with SATA SSD at 1/3 the...

Another thing: (this question for anyone) Roy had suggested disabling fast boot to lessen conflicts between dual boot Win10 and linux.

My first question would be is fastboot and fast startup the...

Hate to have to ask for help on this, but I really don't understand the SSD terminology well enough, and so far my considerable online research is not finding an answer to: "Will my Dell XPS Desktop...

Roy, Thanks for the heads up on fast boot. Will disable.

The Windows related partitions are NTFS, and the linux related are/will be EXT4.

A virtual machine may be both too adventurous for me,...

AndreTen, Is Macrium better than the Windows tool? Please elaborate as I want to learn. Thanks

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AddRAM, I am shopping for a new 256GB SSD as the 128 (+/-) that I have is a first...

Thank you both. After two full days of frustration trying to use Windows to shrink the partition, I am exhausted on that avenue. So I have clean installed, setting up an OS partition, a Win data...

My apology to you and the others. I have just gone back to your earlier post, and I have no explanation. I can only guess that I got interrupted, or stupid set in, and I did not read your entire...

Thanks, can I find that info in System info or where?

Left this computer before I saw NavyLCDR'S post, and went ahead with the reinstall. Here is what I have now:

Disk O, part 1 /499MB/482/ Recovery

Disk O, part 2 / 100MB/95/ System

Disk O,...

As I try to answer your question, I first started to look for where the 524GB number came from, and see that I failed to put a decimal in the PBR image numbers. Should be 7.89GB.

Not sure how the...

Wish I could answer that cause if I could shrink it, I would already be working on the next leg.

Not quite sure how to do that, so have just typed the screen data here:

Volume / Layout / Type / File System / Status / Capacity / Free space / % Free

Disk O, part 1 / Simple / Basic / (blank)...

Dell XPS i7 16GB, 1TB HDD

I have been trying (for way too many hours now) to shrink the existing OS partition to approx 100GB (more on this later) and have decided to stop beating my head against...