Asus 1000HE Ships with two hard drive partitions?
Last night I spent some time playing around with my Asus 1000HE netbook and I wrote some of my early impressions.
I didn't notice this at first but as you can see from the screenshot below. The netbook appears to ship with two near equal hard drive partitions. The OS is placed on 81 GB C: drive and nothing is on the 62.4 GB D: drive:
Occasionally laptop makers will include a second partition that allows you to revert back to your old settings (i.e. Lenovo) but this appears to have been done for no reason. Minor set back I suppose. Does anyone else have this problem?
Tagged: Asus Eee PC 1000HE
Hi I also noticed that my Asus 1000HE has two hard drive partitions. I find that very strange.
Yes, my Asus 1000HE also hhas the same 2 partitions? No idea why.
I install Windows 7 on the D drive.
My Asus 1000HA also came with 2 partitions like your 1000HE. I used Easeus Partition Master (free home edition) to delete the apparently unused D: partition and resize C: to include that space. After rebooting it all seems fine without the extra partition.
Yeah, my 1011HA (Seashell) was shipped with a C: and D: partition and the D: is empty. There near evenly split in GB’s so, what’s the point?
Hard drive partitioning is great for optimizing Windows in general. Using GPartEd, I reduced my 1000HE’s C: drive to 15GB and “stretched” the D: drive to include the spaced freed by the resize of C:.
I then moved all user documents to D:\User Documents\[user1],\[uesr2]….\[user#]. That leaves my C: drive basically for the OS and installed programs only. 15GB for C: works for me; you may need a different size. You can install all programs on a separate partition if you wish, but I found that counterproductive.
I later moved my Pagefile to D: but soon realized was a slight performance hit. Moving it to another physical drive is good while moving to another partition on the same drive the OS resides is not.
Since I build system installations using nLite, I now have one, complete with all ASUS drivers, for my 1000HE. This is possible since all OEM XP Home installation CDs are identical. Legal differentiation from one installation to another is made via the key code. In other words, I’m using the original OEM key code for my nLite installation so I’m fully legal if I ever need to use it.
And here’s the neat part. If I ever need to reinstall windows, I simply wipe the C: drive and use my nLite CD. And all my documents being on D: means no user data is lost.