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Looks like I'll be carrying an umbrella this Halloween. Been dry the past few years. But I always make sure to have the night off.

(I'd comment on the Lucasfilm/Disney news but I already did in the appropriate thread)

I used to live around Kansas City. Smalll world.

I hope everybody is staying safe if they are in the midst of a battle with Mother Nature.

Also, personally I don't think Disney isn't going to do good with that franchise, since they tend to make some...less-than-stellar movies these days. It is possible they do something decent but, come on, it shouldn't be EXPECTED.

Two more hours and I'm done my second shift storm duty.

They've told me to report tomorrow at 7pm so I'm gonna miss Halloween.

Morning, OTT. Anyone hear from Mak...I'm about to send out a search team.

Surprisingly, I didnt do too badly...but seeing what happened in NY/NJ is just amazing. Makes me thankful...it could have been a lot worse.

Eliza Dushku and Michael Dorn were at Austin Comic Con this past weekend. Decided to print this out and get it signed-



Got him to sign it Maero and her to sign it Shaundi.

Ok so I returned my Acer for the Lenovo Yoga. It's more expensive but it's sexy as hell. Awesome build quality (similar to Apple) and being able to rotate the screen into a tablet is really cool. It's very fast and responsive so I'm definitely happy with it. Except for one thing.

Lenovo claims this comes with a solid state 128GB HDD. It does, but it's so full of Lenovo bloat ware, that after everything that comes with it, you get like 60GB of useable space. Also, it's split between a C and D drive. Pretty shitty. Some people online were talking about partitioning drive and such, but I have no idea how to do any of that.

So my question for any computer guys (I'm looking at you, 83). Could I throw an SD card in and use it as part of my storage? What can (or I guess a better question what can't) I run off of it? I love the laptop a lot, and I'm willing to buy a 64GB sd card, or maybe even a 128 card to offset the shitty bloatware.

Is there a way to easily combine the space on the C and D drives? Will things automatically save to the C drive? So will I have to manually tell my computer to save things to the D drive?

Originally Posted by seanr1221 Ok so I returned my Acer for the Lenovo Yoga. It's more expensive but it's sexy as hell. Awesome build quality (similar to Apple) and being able to rotate the screen into a tablet is really cool. It's very fast and responsive so I'm definitely happy with it. Except for one thing. Lenovo claims this comes with a solid state 128GB HDD. It does, but it's so full of Lenovo bloat ware, that after everything that comes with it, you get like 60GB of useable space. Also, it's split between a C and D drive. Pretty shitty. Some people online were talking about partitioning drive and such, but I have no idea how to do any of that. So my question for any computer guys (I'm looking at you, 83). Could I throw an SD card in and use it as part of my storage? What can (or I guess a better question what can't) I run off of it? I love the laptop a lot, and I'm willing to buy a 64GB sd card, or maybe even a 128 card to offset the shitty bloatware. Is there a way to easily combine the space on the C and D drives? Will things automatically save to the C drive? So will I have to manually tell my computer to save things to the D drive?

I'm going to defer some of these questions to people who are better in the know than I am...I am a software programmer by trade. If CK64 is around, he's pretty good with the hardware.

You can put in a SD card and run it like an additional storage (Probably E\ drive will be assigned), but the performance will be noticably weaker than the SSD and you will not be able to install games or executables that require installs on it, I don't beleive.

To the best of my knowledge, the C\ and D\ drives should be partitioned on the same Hard Drive, so that the Operating System is on one partition (Usually C\) and the rest of the HD (D\) is where you would save all of your documents and game installs. Combining the C and D will require a format of the hard drive, not selecting to partition the HD and a complete reinstall of the operating system. Default saves should be D\, if the OS is on C\...that works that way on my PC.

If it were me, I'd burn an image of your current laptop on DVD's and then reformat the current SSD, buy a larger SSD and drop that one in and then do a clean install Windows 7. You should have an image of your laptop or be able to create it. Then sell the old SSD to offset some of the cost.

There also should be some uninstall program options to free up a lot of space by uninstalling the bloat. You could easily reclaim a lot of real estate that way too.

Originally Posted by Number83 I'm going to defer some of these questions to people who are better in the know than I am...I am a software programmer by trade. If CK64 is around, he's pretty good with the hardware. You can put in a SD card and run it like an additional storage (Probably E\ drive will be assigned), but the performance will be noticably weaker than the SSD and you will not be able to install games or executables that require installs on it, I don't beleive. To the best of my knowledge, the C\ and D\ drives should be partitioned on the same Hard Drive, so that the Operating System is on one partition (Usually C\) and the rest of the HD (D\) is where you would save all of your documents and game installs. Combining the C and D will require a format of the hard drive, not selecting to partition the HD and a complete reinstall of the operating system. Default saves should be D\, if the OS is on C\...that works that way on my PC. If it were me, I'd burn an image of your current laptop on DVD's and then reformat the current SSD, buy a larger SSD and drop that one in and then do a clean install Windows 7. You should have an image of your laptop or be able to create it. Then sell the old SSD to offset some of the cost. There also should be some uninstall program options to free up a lot of space by uninstalling the bloat. You could easily reclaim a lot of real estate that way too.

I found this

http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad-.../906689#M12644

But I pretty much have no idea what any of that means.

I loathe Lenovo, their bloatware, customer service . . .etc. We've owned about 3 of their laptops, and additionally- my wife gets a new business one, on average, about every 18 months-they are the sole provider of all my her offices laptops, If you are a corporate client all that bloatware is stripped out and customer service is topnotch, their retail products services are as stated the opposite.

In addition to what 83 said:
Frequently with the thinkpad line (and maybe the Yoga) a large part of the second partition is a factory restore folder.

Does the yoga have a folder labeled something like \lenovo\factory_recovery on the 2nd partition?

If so, I would look to see if you can set up a bootable external optical drive (or maybe even a HDD) and either order a factory system restore disk or copy that system restore folder over to the external HDD.

Then you can free up some gigs and/or change the partitions to your liking.

I am totally unfamiliar with the Yoga, but every lenovo laptop we've ever had has been set up that way on the second partition.

The D drive does have a drivers folder, but it's only taking up 1GB.

The link I posted above seems like a good fix, but like I said, I really have no idea how to do any of that stuff. I'm not even close to being tech savvy.

Originally Posted by Number83 Morning, OTT. Anyone hear from Mak...I'm about to send out a search team. Surprisingly, I didnt do too badly...but seeing what happened in NY/NJ is just amazing. Makes me thankful...it could have been a lot worse.

I'm back in the land of power. That storm was outrageously intense. I hope to never live through something like that again. Three trees fell within about 30 feet of my house. The wind was so strong at times I was sincerely worried my roof would blow off. How was everything in Reading?seanracist and jstryke are still alive it appears

That tutorial is actually fairly clear cut. Effectively it says to copy everything off of D:, uninstall all the programs on D:, then delete it and expand C: to take over the space. Then you re-install the programs that got removed and copy the other files back. Granted, having two partitions doesn't really make any difference besides where you save things. It's like having ten pennies in one pocket vs 7 pennies in one and 3 in the other.

Your real focus should be knocking out the bloatware on it. That's the way to gain some space.

Originally Posted by Maklershed I'm back in the land of power. That storm was outrageously intense. I hope to never live through something like that again. Three trees fell within about 30 feet of my house. The wind was so strong at times I was sincerely worried my roof would blow off. How was everything in Reading?seanracist and jstryke are still alive it appears

Welcome back!!!

Surprisingly, it wasn't as bad where I'm at. Lots of rain, some downed trees but no loss of power but only for a few minutes. Compared to last year's Snowmageddon, it was a breeze.

Is binary domain any good? The story sounds cool. They have it with a bundle with Yakuza Dead Souls for $30 at Target for PS3.

Originally Posted by SneakyPenguin That tutorial is actually fairly clear cut. Effectively it says to copy everything off of D:, uninstall all the programs on D:, then delete it and expand C: to take over the space. Then you re-install the programs that got removed and copy the other files back. Granted, having two partitions doesn't really make any difference besides where you save things. It's like having ten pennies in one pocket vs 7 pennies in one and 3 in the other. Your real focus should be knocking out the bloatware on it. That's the way to gain some space.

Easy for you but I'm linkin prime leves of dumb with this stuff.

Originally Posted by Maklershed I'm back in the land of power. That storm was outrageously intense. I hope to never live through something like that again. Three trees fell within about 30 feet of my house. The wind was so strong at times I was sincerely worried my roof would blow off. How was everything in Reading?seanracist and jstryke are still alive it appears

We didn't get much here. Rain and wind, but not much to write home about. Didn't see any downed trees, but I haven't driven on the backroads since, so it's hard to say.

Originally Posted by seanr1221 Ok so I returned my Acer for the Lenovo Yoga. It's more expensive but it's sexy as hell. Awesome build quality (similar to Apple) and being able to rotate the screen into a tablet is really cool. It's very fast and responsive so I'm definitely happy with it. Except for one thing. Lenovo claims this comes with a solid state 128GB HDD. It does, but it's so full of Lenovo bloat ware, that after everything that comes with it, you get like 60GB of useable space. Also, it's split between a C and D drive. Pretty shitty. Some people online were talking about partitioning drive and such, but I have no idea how to do any of that. So my question for any computer guys (I'm looking at you, 83). Could I throw an SD card in and use it as part of my storage? What can (or I guess a better question what can't) I run off of it? I love the laptop a lot, and I'm willing to buy a 64GB sd card, or maybe even a 128 card to offset the shitty bloatware. Is there a way to easily combine the space on the C and D drives? Will things automatically save to the C drive? So will I have to manually tell my computer to save things to the D drive?

To answer your SD question, yes you can just put an SD card into your laptop as an expandable bay. You can essentially run anything from the SD card, but you will need to make sure it is always plugged in. Removing it when your laptop is reading the data may cause serious issues.

As for your "two drives" they (lenovo) partitioned the ssd, which is why you have a C and D. Most likely they did this to make sure that all OS and preloaded ware is on one drive and the other is blank for you to add to.

The easy way, is for you to wipe your SSD clean and do a fresh OS install. First order would be to change your ssd into one partition instead of two. This should give you about 90-100 GB of free space (usually a 128GB ssd reads @ 119Gb and OSs range from 12-15GB).

Originally Posted by 2DMention Is binary domain any good? The story sounds cool. They have it with a bundle with Yakuza Dead Souls for $30 at Target for PS3.

DO IT. Binary Domain is Dope and if you are long time Yakuza fan, then you'll get a kick out of Dead Souls.

Anyone here use a SBG 6580 modem? TWC is going to start charging a modem rental fee, and I am looking at replacing the one we have.

Originally Posted by seanr1221 Easy for you but I'm linkin prime leves of dumb with this stuff.

Well, at the core you can focus on uninstalling bloatware. Pretty much nuke anything you're sure you won't need. If you're unsure, Google it and see what the consensus is.

When it comes time to partition you can use a GUI tool or a Linux live cd to make it easier on yourself. I had to recently do a lot of this shit to triple boot a MacBook and partitioning is one of the easier things to do. Granted, deleting and then growing a partition is easier than creating new ones. Don't create new ones unless all your data is off of the machine.