Migrating C: to a fresh partition

[sorican]

I'm buying a new cheapo-laptop that will serve my needs, specifically, an 11-inch acer with two drives on board- the first is a 32gb eMMc drive, which is where I assume C: will be installed, and a 1tb spinning-drive where is 'storage'.

does anybody know if win10 will complain if I try to change it's install location onto a modest partition of that 1tb drive, so I can give debian the eMMC drive with some swap space?

I seem to recall the last time I changed disk drives on a windows box, I ended up having to let a microsoft agent remote in. and then convince him that the old hard disk had failed, prompting the new one.

 

[Math Geek]

once activated win 10 should install to any drive in the laptop. so installing it to your hdd should be as simple as booting up the usb drive and installing it.

i would remove the small ssd though to be sure it does not try to install to that. but there should be no problems with it activating once it is installed to the hdd.

 

[sorican]

once activated win 10 should install to any drive in the laptop. so installing it to your hdd should be as simple as booting up the usb drive and installing it.

i would remove the small ssd though to be sure it does not try to install to that. but there should be no problems with it activating once it is installed to the hdd.

thank you for the quick reply! I'm glad that it shouldn't be a problem... for whatever reason, those rare occasions where I have to do something with MS tech support makes me grumbley.

my understanding of eMMc's are that they're surface-mounted flash storage on the moboard itself (as in tablets and netbooks), so uninstalling isn't really an option.

 

[USAFRet]

Right.
eMMC drives are surface mount. This will lead to issues later.

It may even be in there just as a cache for the 1TB.
Don't 'assume' until you see exactly what is going on in there.

 

[Math Geek]

should not be a problem simply installing windows so long as you pay attention to where it is going. should be rather obvious when seeing 32 gb vs 1 tb for drive options

pick the larger one and let it do its thing.