New Laptop Coming Soon - of course I'll Install Linux - What to do With Windows 10 (SSD is only 64GB)?

rokytnji · 11-27-2018, 11:01 AM

Windows Enterprise drive is in the laptop Bag. This was slapped in as temporary fix.

Code:

harry@biker:~
$ inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: biker Kernel: 4.9.83-antix.1-686-smp-pae i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 4.9.2 
           Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8 Distro: antiX-15-V_386-full Killah P 30 June 2015 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 2347DS2 v: ThinkPad T430 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: LENOVO model: 2347DS2 serial: <filter> UEFI [Legacy]: LENOVO 
           v: G1ET41WW (1.16 ) date: 05/25/2012 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 22.8 Wh condition: 22.9/56.2 Wh (41%) model: SANYO 45N1001 
           status: Charging 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-3320M bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Ivy Bridge 
           rev: 9 L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 20752 
           Speed: 1311 MHz min/max: 1200/3300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1311 2: 1642 3: 1986 
           4: 1309 
Graphics:  Card-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
           Display: server: X.Org 1.16.4 driver: intel unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1600x900~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.2 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Card-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.83-antix.1-686-smp-pae 
Network:   Card-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: 5080 
           bus ID: 00:19.0 
           IF: eth2 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Card-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel 
           bus ID: 03:00.0 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 301.78 GiB used: 75.49 GiB (25.0%) 
           ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: SA04G size: 3.69 GiB 
           ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HGST HTS545032A7E380 size: 298.09 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 7.56 GiB used: 5.84 GiB (77.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
           ID-2: /home size: 67.16 GiB used: 3.39 GiB (5.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 3.91 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 3222 
Info:      Processes: 174 Uptime: 1h 28m Memory: 15.56 GiB used: 585.5 MiB (3.7%) Init: SysVinit 
           runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 4.9.2 Shell: bash v: 4.3.30 inxi: 3.0.10 
harry@biker:~
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My wife just bought a new Dell. So I get her Windows 10 Asus Touchscreen Q something or other. 6 gig ram with a I3 processor.
For it. I sprang and spent cyber monday bucks on a Samsung Evo 500 Gig SSD.

On this IBM T430. This drive will be taken out AND a 60 gig SSD Kington will take it's place.
Might try this drive currently, next in my Dell XT2 touchscreen for grins.
The 60 gig SSD is coming out of it.

This IBM 32 bit install/hardrive came out of a old single core blown up Laptop.
I just changed wlan settings and installed a pae kernel and called it good.

BW-userx · 11-27-2018, 12:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rokytnji

Windows Enterprise drive is in the laptop Bag. This was slapped in as temporary fix.

I sprang and spent cyber Monday bucks on a Samsung Evo 500 Gig SSD.

how much did that run you, if you do not mind me asking? more then this

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-Gee...:pf:0&LH_BIN=1

or less than, give or take 10 buck?

rokytnji · 11-28-2018, 07:02 AM

Mine was 79/80 bucks new. Not refurbished.
Not bought through ebay. But site to store Walmart instead.
Then Tx takes their sales tax cut at 8.x%

Quote:

Online order
Nov 26, 2018

1 item
$86.59
See Details

I guess a re furbished one may be Ok. Her laptop is only a 1 year old I think, so I went with new.

Edit: Looks like a price hike since I bought mine. Below quote when I bought mine.

Quote:

Samsung SSD 860 EVO 2.5" SATA III 500GB - MZ-76E500B/AM
$79.99

Price hike

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Samsung-S...B-AM/810835904

sorry if I hijacked this thread.

BW-userx · 11-28-2018, 07:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rokytnji

Mine was 79/80 bucks new. Not refurbished.
Not bought through ebay. But site to store Walmart instead.
Then Tx takes their sales tax cut at 8.x%

I guess a re furbished one may be Ok. Her laptop is only a 1 year old I think, so I went with new.

Edit: Looks like a price hike since I bought mine. Below quote when I bought mine.

Price hike

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Samsung-S...B-AM/810835904

sorry if I hijacked this thread.

I just purchased one off ebay Refurbished, how anyone can refurbish a sdd is beyond me, just wipe it that is about all one can do. it had to be from a returned system they got it off of, and seeings how they are made in 2018, it seems to me that they cannot be too beat up and used. so it is a savings of 10 bucks, it came to a few pennies over 70$, w/tax. Best Buy via ebay. Should have it in a few days.

Code:

Samsung - Geek Squad Certified Refurbished 860 EVO 500GB Internal SATA Solid ...

    ITEM PRICE:
    US $64.99
    Free shipping

now back to the regularly secluded post about ssd's and such...

ondoho · 11-29-2018, 01:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cynwulf

Windows 10 "self activates", the licence key is built into the UEFI.

So that installation of windows is pretty much bound to that computer. If you can get the same edition of Windows 10, you can create installation media: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/soft...load/windows10

My advice is that if you don't want to run it (but just want to hang onto it just in case) that you use something like clonezilla, take an image of the whole SSD, save that image file to a USB stick or external drive and just keep it.

You can then just wipe it out and install whatever you like.

thanks for the input.
cloning looks like one of 2 things i will definitely do.

you say "windows is pretty much bound to that computer" - but what about the drive?

previously someone said it balks when trying to run from USB, but there's some (hopefully free as in beer) software that can be used to spoof windows into allowing it.

also thanks to rokytnji:
i should wait to see what is actually in the box when i get the machine.

PS: gearbest really sucks. i ordered on 12th of November, and they still don't know when it will be shipped from china. they say the company (jumper) is out of stock. i wonder if it went bankrupt or something.

cynwulf · 11-29-2018, 04:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

you say "windows is pretty much bound to that computer" - but what about the drive?

I have no idea. I seem to recall that Windows always wanted to be on BIOS drive 0 and on the primary active partition. If it wasn't you'd get problems. I don't think that's the case anymore.

I searched and found some 3rd party tool called "WinToUSB"... the official MS thing to do the same is only for "Enterprise" editions of Windows 10.