Posted: 9/25/2009 8:12:47 AM EDT
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Any of you guys be able to point me in the right direction on how to transfer the OS to a Multi-gig chip instead of the solid state? What do I need, complete destructions things like that. I am almost out of room on my solid state and sadly due to the scantool software I use I have to run XP (resource hog). Otherwise I would drop xp and have plenty of room.
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OK, I had an eeepc for a year or so and just sold it... and I am pretty sure I can help you, but I don't think I understand what you want to do yet... So I think you are telling me that you are using XP as your only OS and that you are almost out of room on your SSD? can you give me some specs so I know what you have to work with?
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Location would help too. If your in Trinidad, us geeks in Fort Collins aren't going to be able to help you much. I am in Lakewood, not Trinidad 
I have a EEEPC with a 4 GB SS Hard drive. Sadly due to my scan tools that I use the computer for I have to run XP. It takes up almost all of the 4 GB hard drive (I should have gotten a larger harddrive when I bought it I guess, didn't think it would be THAT much a resource hog). I have actually met one of the Colorado guys who had his operating system on a 8 or 16GB SD card that was inserted into the EEEPC. I am thinking this is the easiest way to get more room. I have a few 4 GB ones but would get a 8 or 16 GB one to run it on but I have no idea how to do this and the online stuff that I have found speaks a language that I have no understanding of. Currently I have about 140MBs left of room. And I can not even install the update software for my scan tools... I have been going through and deleting the XP updates that came with the computer, the browsers and anything I can think of to increase room but this is just a temp fix I know. If I can upgrade to a larger main hard drive easily, or more so then transferring the OS to a SD card that would be great as well. Cheep is also a consideration at this point as well due to money constraints. Thank you guys for your help! |
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OK, transferring the OS to an SD is possible, but the SD is slower than the internal SSD, so if you end up doing that you will have to live with that hit to the performance. What I used to do was to install my OS (XP sp2) and turn off Auto updates and just never update it, which made the installed footprint of XP like 2.2 GB. What I would recommend doing is not to transfer your OS (as that would require uninstalling and reinstalling either thru a USB external CD drive or thru a USB key (doable, but not for the faint of heart)), but to uninstall your scan tool from the SSD, get a class 6 (fast) SD card, and install just the program to that card. This will allow you to keep the XP updates (or not) and update your scan tool on the SD card. If you need instructions on how to do that, let me know. OR if you want to reinstall XP and not get the updates to free up even more space let me know and I can type up a walkthru on that for you. Just out of curiosity, if you were able to run a different OS, what would you be running? You say that XP is a resource hog, but you don't strike me as the linux or hackintosh type, and we all know that vista would be much, much worse of a space hog than XP... so... |
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OK, transferring the OS to an SD is possible, but the SD is slower than the internal SSD, so if you end up doing that you will have to live with that hit to the performance. What I used to do was to install my OS (XP sp2) and turn off Auto updates and just never update it, which made the installed footprint of XP like 2.2 GB. What I would recommend doing is not to transfer your OS (as that would require uninstalling and reinstalling either thru a USB external CD drive or thru a USB key (doable, but not for the faint of heart)), but to uninstall your scan tool from the SSD, get a class 6 (fast) SD card, and install just the program to that card. This will allow you to keep the XP updates (or not) and update your scan tool on the SD card. If you need instructions on how to do that, let me know. OR if you want to reinstall XP and not get the updates to free up even more space let me know and I can type up a walkthru on that for you. Just out of curiosity, if you were able to run a different OS, what would you be running? You say that XP is a resource hog, but you don't strike me as the linux or hackintosh type, and we all know that vista would be much, much worse of a space hog than XP... so... I have done some reading on the subject of OS and think linux would work much better on this pc. But I really dont know enough about it. I have also read that you can put a "mini" XP installation that takes a much smaller footprint. Dont remember the exact name of that one though. I did actually try installing the software on SD card but it never really ran correctly. I will give it another go. |
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You don't use a keyboard? I'm confused now... ;)
If you do decide to reinstall XP, you could try using nLite to create an XP build that is dramatically smaller than normal. A lot of people reload the OS on a netbook based on an nLite image for that specific reason... it's basically a tool that helps you pre-select options for install and cut out anything you're not going to use. (and free). Depending on how much you need to free up, this might be a better option than a hard drive swap... |
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Quoted: Linux can be much smaller, but it requires a certain amount of finagling from time to time that is outside of the scope of the abilities of the average user. I have heard that nLite is a good option, but I have no experience with it, so take that for what it is. Let us know how installing the program to the SD card goes, because that is honestly your easiest option.Quoted: OK, transferring the OS to an SD is possible, but the SD is slower than the internal SSD, so if you end up doing that you will have to live with that hit to the performance. What I used to do was to install my OS (XP sp2) and turn off Auto updates and just never update it, which made the installed footprint of XP like 2.2 GB. What I would recommend doing is not to transfer your OS (as that would require uninstalling and reinstalling either thru a USB external CD drive or thru a USB key (doable, but not for the faint of heart)), but to uninstall your scan tool from the SSD, get a class 6 (fast) SD card, and install just the program to that card. This will allow you to keep the XP updates (or not) and update your scan tool on the SD card. If you need instructions on how to do that, let me know. OR if you want to reinstall XP and not get the updates to free up even more space let me know and I can type up a walkthru on that for you. Just out of curiosity, if you were able to run a different OS, what would you be running? You say that XP is a resource hog, but you don't strike me as the linux or hackintosh type, and we all know that vista would be much, much worse of a space hog than XP... so... I have done some reading on the subject of OS and think linux would work much better on this pc. But I really dont know enough about it. I have also read that you can put a "mini" XP installation that takes a much smaller footprint. Dont remember the exact name of that one though. I did actually try installing the software on SD card but it never really ran correctly. I will give it another go. |