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| posted on February 14th, 2012 at 09:50 PM |
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Windows computer question I need IT help I am only a panel beater.
On the laptop running Windows 7. There is
Local Disc C which has 42GB of 686GB used - no problem
Disc D is the DVD RW Drive
Local Disc E is a problem.
it is 11.9GB of 12GB used. Full. I assume it is a RAM chip type drive. It appears to have backup stuff on it
There is a folder D2D with a folder IMAGES that is full of .SWM files that take up nearly the whole E drive.
I do regular backups and Windows images to an external portable hard drive every few days.
Can I delete the .SWM files?
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| posted on February 14th, 2012 at 10:42 PM |
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posted by helbus
On the laptop running Windows 7. There is
Local Disc C which has 42GB of 686GB used - no problem
Disc D is the DVD RW Drive
Local Disc E is a problem.
it is 11.9GB of 12GB used. Full. I assume it is a RAM chip type drive. It appears to have backup stuff on it
There is a folder D2D with a folder IMAGES that is full of .SWM files that take up nearly the whole E drive.
I do regular backups and Windows images to an external portable hard drive every few days.
Can I delete the .SWM files?
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Sounds like its a brand name laptop like Asus, Toshiba or something. Those files are very likely to be your OS recovery files on that partition.
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helbus
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| posted on February 14th, 2012 at 10:54 PM |
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It is 18 months old ACER brand
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| posted on February 14th, 2012 at 11:00 PM |
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get a mac n see the light 
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| posted on February 14th, 2012 at 11:01 PM |
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posted by helbus
It is 18 months old ACER brand
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Acer customizes the hard drive to include the recovery partition and some manufacturers even have special designations in the MBR for the recovery
partition. Your E: Drive is Acers recovery partition. Its formatted with just enough space to fit the recovery files.
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| posted on February 14th, 2012 at 11:23 PM |
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get a mac n see the light
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+1.
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helbus
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| posted on February 14th, 2012 at 11:31 PM |
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get a mac n see the light
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Pffft. I run my desktop on a Linux GNU based system. Mac can get lost along with Windows in my opinion.
Seven years of operating a Linux system with no cost, no virus, stability, no freeze, no crash, and I can change anything I want. Fedora, Ubuntu,
Debian are free and stable.
This Windows laptop I have control of is just annoying.
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| posted on February 14th, 2012 at 11:33 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by helbus
It is 18 months old ACER brand
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Acer customizes the hard drive to include the recovery partition and some manufacturers even have special designations in the MBR for the recovery
partition. Your E: Drive is Acers recovery partition. Its formatted with just enough space to fit the recovery files.
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Give me a break, what is MBR? Can I delete the files? How do I recognise the recovery files to delete? Arrrrrgh Windows!!!!!
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| posted on February 14th, 2012 at 11:35 PM |
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helbus,
I do enjoy a Linux box myself. I run Ubuntu as my in-house server. Freaking awesome for version controlling my software development stuff.
I also have it for running a full home theatre system off of (basically, can stream music, videos, images, everything to my PS3). I then have it setup
as a gaming server as well, which is cool when friends come around and we just want to have a nerd sesh.
Only reason I have Mac is because that's where the money is for me at the moment. iOS (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch software) is what I program for, apps
and shit.
Linux > Windows.
Mac > Windows.
Mac = Linux.
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| posted on February 14th, 2012 at 11:37 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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Give me a break, what is MBR? Can I delete the files? How do I recognise the recovery files to delete? Arrrrrgh Windows!!!!!
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I wouldn't touch that drive at all. That's just me though. Windows is shocking enough and I wouldn't want to screw it up any more by removing
something that shouldn't be removed but isn't stated it shouldn't be removed...
My two cents.
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| posted on February 14th, 2012 at 11:41 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by helbus
On the laptop running Windows 7. There is
Local Disc C which has 42GB of 686GB used - no problem
Disc D is the DVD RW Drive
Local Disc E is a problem.
it is 11.9GB of 12GB used. Full. I assume it is a RAM chip type drive. It appears to have backup stuff on it
There is a folder D2D with a folder IMAGES that is full of .SWM files that take up nearly the whole E drive.
I do regular backups and Windows images to an external portable hard drive every few days.
Can I delete the .SWM files?
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I'm not even a panel beater and still know nothing lol
I have a toshiba laptop with windows 7...
haven't a clue what I'm doing on that...lol
My Son is an IT person... but has given up even trying to tell me what He's doing to fix My computer... lol
cheers
Lee
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| posted on February 15th, 2012 at 02:26 AM |
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MBR: Master Boot Record ,what?
it's the thing that make your computer load windoze when you turn on
but it is elusive to me now different manufacture implement it.
leave it alone and buy an external drive if you are running out of space
off course it doesn't help if your physical drive fail and make clicking noise
specially bad when you have an assignment on it and no external back up
also, I run 11.10 Ubuntu as a dual boot with Win7, I need both
ps Don't download more RAM
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| posted on February 15th, 2012 at 05:59 AM |
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I sometimes have trouble opening windows, probably because I have arthritis......but then, I'm only a panelbeater.
I'd rather wear a Beetle out by racing it than by polishing it!
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| posted on February 15th, 2012 at 07:00 AM |
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I wouldnt touch the e: if you want to restore your PC at some stage. No big deal its only 12Gb just leave it and use c:.
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| posted on February 15th, 2012 at 11:57 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by helbus
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posted by h
get a mac n see the light
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Pffft. I run my desktop on a Linux GNU based system. Mac can get lost along with Windows in my opinion.
Seven years of operating a Linux system with no cost, no virus, stability, no freeze, no crash, and I can change anything I want. Fedora, Ubuntu,
Debian are free and stable.
This Windows laptop I have control of is just annoying.
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| posted on February 15th, 2012 at 02:44 PM |
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I sometimes have trouble opening windows, probably because I have arthritis......but then, I'm only a panelbeater.
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| posted on February 15th, 2012 at 02:45 PM |
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i have 2 cans and a long piece of string.
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| posted on February 15th, 2012 at 05:01 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by helbus
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posted by theVman
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posted by helbus
It is 18 months old ACER brand
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Acer customizes the hard drive to include the recovery partition and some manufacturers even have special designations in the MBR for the recovery
partition. Your E: Drive is Acers recovery partition. Its formatted with just enough space to fit the recovery files.
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Give me a break, what is MBR? Can I delete the files? How do I recognise the recovery files to delete? Arrrrrgh Windows!!!!!
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MBR = Master Boot Record
SebastienPeek and bitemeoz are correct.
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| posted on February 15th, 2012 at 09:49 PM |
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The annoying thing is every time I touch the laptop it keeps telling me Drive E is full, and to sort it out blah blah. The popups are really annoying,
as they are constantly in my face. It must be a RAM, being only 12GB. I have all backup images done every few days on an external portable drive.
Can I just delete the .SWM files to stop the persistent popups? It is nearly as bad as my 5 YO son with his "I'm hungry"
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| posted on February 16th, 2012 at 06:46 AM |
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From the web below, as i said if you dont think or want to ever recover your laptop then you can remove them.
SWM file is a Splitted Windows Imaging File. The Windows Imaging Format (WIM) is a file-based disk image format. It was developed by Microsoft to
deploy its latest Windows operating system releases, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, which use it as part of their standard installation
procedure. If the created .wim file is too large for your selected media, you can split the file into smaller files for spanning across multiple
media.
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| posted on February 16th, 2012 at 10:01 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by helbus
The annoying thing is every time I touch the laptop it keeps telling me Drive E is full, and to sort it out blah blah. The popups are really annoying,
as they are constantly in my face. It must be a RAM, being only 12GB. I have all backup images done every few days on an external portable drive.
Can I just delete the .SWM files to stop the persistent popups? It is nearly as bad as my 5 YO son with his "I'm hungry"
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You have a number of options:
1. Hide the partition
Use this tool TweakUI
2. Turn off the system messages
Use this procedure disable-low-disk-space-notification
3. Delete the files
Ensure you have the OS media and serial to reinstall from if needed and realise the in built OS recovery will no longer work.
4. Format and install linux
I think you know how.
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| posted on February 16th, 2012 at 12:42 PM |
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download more RAM
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| posted on February 16th, 2012 at 02:27 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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download more RAM
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LOL .... yeh you can get it HERE 
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