Thread: Lack of HD Space On Classmate Netbook
View Single Post
  #8   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 07-11-2011, 23:18
Tom Line's Avatar
Tom Line Tom Line is offline
Raptors can't turn doorknobs.
FRC #1718 (The Fighting Pi)
Team Role: Mentor
  
Join Date: Jan 2007
Rookie Year: 1999
Location: Armada, Michigan
Posts: 2,517
Tom Line has a reputation beyond reputeTom Line has a reputation beyond reputeTom Line has a reputation beyond reputeTom Line has a reputation beyond reputeTom Line has a reputation beyond reputeTom Line has a reputation beyond reputeTom Line has a reputation beyond reputeTom Line has a reputation beyond reputeTom Line has a reputation beyond reputeTom Line has a reputation beyond reputeTom Line has a reputation beyond repute
Re: Lack of HD Space On Classmate Netbook
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Lim View Post
Thanks for the links Mark.

We've already finished the imaging process, and removed a lot of the non-essential stuff, and installed our development suite.

I was hoping someone had a different procedure other that FIRST's, as theirs required reimaging the driver station again.

If anyone is curious however, deleting the recovery partition, moving the 100MB System partition to the beginning of the drive, and then resizing the Windows partition using a utility like gParted, or any of the various partitioning utils on Hiren's BootCD *does* work - provided you boot off a Win7 recovery CD (err USB rather...) afterwards, and let the automatic startup diagnostic tool update your boot BCD entries.

If you don't do that last step, your Classmate will repeatedly restart itself when trying to boot.
*chuckle*. Ours does that, and many other interest things even after repeated images. It also continually runs out of memory (ram). I'm beginning to suspect a defective ram stick..... but we're relegating it to backup status after beta test because the thing is just too slow and annoying.