c drive too small on new omen

[Roaa94]

I am having the same problem here. I don't have any personal files on the C drive and I try to download most of my programs in the D drive. But still, the disk space of the C drive doesn't seem to be enough. Is there anyway to increase the disk space of the C drive?

[Photoray002]

Hello @Roaa94

I assume you have a 128 GB SSD for the C drive and 1TB hard drive for D, is that correct?

Its possible to gain a little space by removing the HP recovery partition from the drive. You should make your HP USB recovery drive before doing this, for safety.

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/forums/replypage/board-id/GamingNotebooks/message-id/9535

But you would most likely be better off replacing the drive with a larger one.

Let me know if you need further help.

[Roaa94]

Thank you for your response.

Yes I have a 128 GB SSD for the C drive but with 2 TB dor hard drives D and E. 

Actually I need more space than the HP recovery partition can give me.  I can replace the drive with a larger one as you suggested. However, this solution might take more time and cost than I can afford.

My question is then, can I migrate my boot and OS drive to an HDD? For example, instead of my hard drive E being about 750 GB, it would be the new system drive C and I would use the 128 GB SSD for storage. If it's possible, would this make my computer slower?

Thank you.

[Photoray002 · Accepted solution]

Yes its possible to do that, and yes it will make the system run slower. Loading times and boot times will slow quite a bit.

But if you need to save the money, its a trade off.