Assistance Req w/ disk re-allocation on VAIO

[smartbadge]

Fellow Sony Users,

I have a Sony VAIO VGN-AW laptop.

According to the Computer Management Utility, the laptop has:

Disk0 59.63GB

This is comprised of:

13.41 GB Healthy (EISA Configuration)

(C:) 46.22 GB NTFS Healthy (System, Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)

Disk1  465.75 GB

(D:) 465.75 GB NTFS

Healthy (Logical Drive)

(Please see the attached JPG)

Question 1:

All non-program material has been removed from the C drive to the D drive.

This means that there are no documents, music or photographs on the C drive.

However, there is only 1.80GB of space free on the C drive.  I have 418GB

free on the D drive.  Is there anyway that I can re-allocate space from the D drive

for use on the C drive?

Question 2:

The EISA appears to be a new addition to Disk0.

I do not recall it being ther ethe last time I checked.

What could have caused this to appear?

Cheers

[rich912]

Hi smartbadge,

Which model AW series do you have?

This series was released with various hard drive configurations, including 2x320GB, 1x500GB and 2x500Gb. None of these seem to fit your findings although I suspect it should be 2x500GB.

The jpg is not attached to your post but the EISA partition without drive letter is normal - this is the hidden recovery partition. The remaining allocated size of disk 0 (C:) is not normal. Have you at some time reconfigured disk 0 and is there any part of the disk that is reported as unallocated?

Rich

[smartbadge]

Rich,

Thank you for replying to my post. I have the VGN-AW21Z.

I do not have access to the JPG now as I am on a different computer.

However, the figures that I provide in text are in essence how the disks

are setup.

I understand from your post that EISA is the hidden recovery partition.

I am certain that this was not there the last time I was looking at the

disk manager a few months ago.

When you say that the remaining allocated size of disk 0 (C:) is not

normal; What do you expect to see normally?

Not to my knowledge have I ever reconfigured disk0. There is no

part of the disk0 reported as unallocated.  However, you can view this

to confirm once I upload the JPG.

[smartbadge]

Rich

The JPG is attached.

Judging by the screenshot, can I re-allocate space from the D drive to the C drive?

[rich912]

Hi smartbadge,

Thanks for the screenshot.

Until looking at the specifications for the AW21Z I had no idea that any of this series was released with a SSD drive, but this is the case. Disk 0 is a 65GB SSD and Disk 1 is a 500GB Sata drive. Quite honestly 65GB for Recovery Partition plus OS plus programs plus restore points etc. seems somewhat slim if not ridiculous.

Unfortunately as they are  two  physical drives you cannot reallocate space from one  to the other.

There are a things you could do to free up space:

Disk cleanup.

Delete all but the most recent restore point - only a temporary measure as this space will be taken again over a period of time.

Remove the Recovery Partition - not recommend.

Delete unwanted pre-installled programs - be careful here as some require a reset to factory defaults to re-install.

Delete third party programs from the C drive and re-install on the D drive.

If you want to spend money then you could replace Disk 0 with a larger drive and then re-install the OS using your recovery media - not inexpensive and quite time consuming.

Hope this helps.

Rich