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Fair enough. Thank you for your videos and posts...helped me out a lot.

I'd also warn new users about the 60 gb limit on the SBSE system disk. It's crazy that it's that small; mine is about two-thirds full with just AC (edit: I have AC on a different partition and the system disk is that full). If I had to do it over again, I'd extend that partition before setting everything up. For now, I just hope I won't run out of space.

That's why in Part 3 of my recommended setup, I put AC on a separate partition as well as user data on a separate partition as well. Then the only thing going on the C drive is Windows updates and it stays pretty empty. I'm just glad to hear it helped out someone.

What you could do when you get the time is uninstall and reinstall on a separate partition. Just make sure to backup first.

Thanks, but I already did that, Sandeep.

All I am saying is that it would be better if, after installing SBSE, one would extend the C drive. 60 GB is a bit small.

And, yes, you have been an enormous help. Thank you. That MS thought a 60 GB system disk would be adequate is not your fault.

Best regards.

edited earlier post to reflect that AC is NOT on my system (C:) drive.

How to Resize the System Partition without using a separate drive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1GP1qOReKA&feature=youtu.be

The separate drive method involves moving data to a secondary drive and then deleting the Data Partition. Resize the OS Partition and the recreate the Data partition and move back.

The method I showed above uses a boot-time partition editor to modify the partitions. Just make sure you do a full image backup before you do anything. Defragmenting the drive is a good idea as well as it makes it easier to move data across the drive.

What else did you install on there? My C partition is only 17GB on my Essentials.

Do you have hibernation enabled? How much RAM do you have?

Disabling hibernation will give the amount of RAM you have back. 8GB will give you 8GB back.

Go to the command line and type powercfg -h off

You can move your page file to another partition. I did this with my SBS Standard since my page file was 24GB (1.5xRAM amount) due to the 16GB of RAM. That cleared my drive right up.

I have 16 GB of RAM. Power options are set to default ("balanced"). Nothing else installed but I do have a Quicken and a Timeclock data base in the Server Folders (and a shared "Our Files folder in there, too, but it only has a couple docs). I will probably move all that to the D: drive.

Just ran powercfg -h off.

Those things (Quicken and Timeclock db, and the "Our Files" folder) are less than 10 MB, so they aren't the problem. Hmmm. I will keep looking.

Make sure you run it from an elevated command prompt. Also your page file is probably taking 24 16 Gigabytes. Move that to the data partition.

Thanks again. Will do as you recommend and report back. Gotta dash for the morning, though.

Best regards.

Sandeep,

By default, it likely wouldn't be 24GB. You would have to set it that way. At least in all servers and PCs I have used below 2011?

When it's system managed, it's set to a default to the amount of RAM when RAM exceeds 1GB, (1.5xRAM if less than 1GB) but can be up to 3 times the amount of RAM. System managed grows dynamically. SBS-E I wouldn't be surprised if it was just 16. My SBS Standard actually went to 24GB. It can even end up being 48GB if necessary.

It's 34 GB. And I have my "Server Folders" on D: (with those aforementioned databases and "Our Stuff" Folder).

Will play with it later.

Here is the oil-cooled PC with fish as promised:


Dead silent. Buddy always telling me people think it's magic and the real computer is hidden somewhere else.

Warning: Do not attempt.

Specs:
i5-2500K
8GB G.Skill RAM
3TB External Seagate USB 3.0 Drive
64 GB Crucial M4 SSD
ASUS 24X External DVD eSATA Burner
Antec BP-550 550 Watt Modular PSU
Asus MicroATX motherboard
4M of Red and Blue LED strips
Hauppage 2250 PCI-E Dual TV Tuner

That is way cool. Do you use a filter?

In the fish tank yes, in the computer tank no. Intestinal lubricant (the oil) is a bit thick for a filter normally accustomed to water. The spinning fan at the bottom of the computer tank was just for style.

We only ordered 3 gallons of mineral oil off Amazon and we needed more so we got the rest from Walmart. You can use baby oil too but that was $3 per 20 oz. We didn't want the fragrance either so we used intestinal lubricant. When we went to buy 10 bottles of the intestinal lubricant, the cashier thought we were crazy ha.

I think the filter in Nemo would have worked.

Don't really need the filter. Stays clean for the most part since it's covered.

I don't think they thought you were crazy, possibly somewhat deviant.....

Probably haha. There was a group of us. But when I started explaining how it was a non-conductive fluid, she got that scared look. Probably thought we were mad scientists or something .