Lack of HD Space On Classmate Netbook

[Mark McLeod]

Classmate Drive Space Recovery Procedure
Classmate Drive Space Installation Files

and if you're reinstalling Win 7 don't forget
Windows 7 Activation
Windows 7 Activation Files

[Mr. Lim]

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.

[Tom Line]

Originally Posted by Mr. Lim

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.

[de_]

fyi: We replaced our 16gb SSD (stock on 2009 Classmate), with a 1.8" pata LIF 120gb drive (off Ebay) which appears to have worked fine. Not sure how much speed we might have lost going from SSD (2008 speeds) to a 3600RPM HD but for a driver station, it should be easily fine. 120GB might seem like overkill but it was cheaper in our case than a 60gb after shipping and was based on modern drive technology. No 2.5" drives don't fit and don't have the LIF pata ribbon cable interface. Watch out for sata LIF drives which will not work in the Classmate. Needs to be pata ide.