Reset THN14B thomson
jns55 -
Good evening everyone. I would like to reset my wife's PC. I can't do it because the system needs 5 GB, but there are only 600 MB free.
How can I do it? I want to delete everything. Yet the system tells me: no program is installed, she has no folders on her PC.
Any ideas?
Have a good evening.
3 réponses
Hello,
The question has already been raised.
https://forums.commentcamarche.net/forum/affich-37932709-mise-a-jour-w10-sur-pc-thomson
Even after cleaning up everything unnecessary, programs, temporary files..., Windows updates will still be enough to fill up the 32 GB storage.
We can always format and reinstall with a Windows installation USB after an external backup of the drivers, but we'll end up with exactly the same problem.
The only solution is to replace Windows with a lightweight "Windows Friendly" Linux distribution.
Hello
No space? The toutoulinux site at its creator, there have been plenty of different versions since then, capable of running in RAM without installing unless you ask it to...
(very easy even if you don't know linux, there are all the tutorials, floppies or CDs for old PCs or USBs for more recent ones of course)
https://www.moulinier.net/
CCM knows it, of course
https://forums.commentcamarche.net/forum/affich-14841503-tuto-toutou-linux
Hello,
The question from jns55 is relevant although I seem to have accidentally seen, I didn't pay much attention to it, some tutorials aimed at installing Linux, not necessarily Ubuntu, on this type of PC.
Why not Puppy as a lightweight distribution to install, but not in Live USB, that doesn't make sense.
Without going to an extreme diet, a number of Linux distributions can take about 5 to 10 GB on the disk, unlike Windows which takes 20 to 30 GB or more, leaving (a little...) on that disk.
The problem with Toutou Linux is the release date of the last version: April 2015! Completely outdated these days.
There are quite a few Linux distros that are not minimalistic distributions that will work well with this hardware: Bodhi Linux, AntiX Linux, Q4OS, and even Linux Mint XFCE, which isn’t that heavy after all... You should avoid those that use snap or flatpak like Lubuntu.
Afterward, it needs to be seen if the person using it is ready to make the jump, because it's not Windows; everything has to be questioned and that’s the toughest part.
I am not very skilled in Linux, I have a Live CD and USB Puppy that only serve to troubleshoot once in a while using gparted, which is to say almost never.
I have a Linux Mint virtual machine (Cinnamon, irrelevant to the type of device we are talking about) which is largely graphical and not really disorienting for the Linux novice that I am.
Thank you to everyone who responded.
The issue will be resolved with the disposal of this PC.
Have a great weekend.
Jeanclaude.
Hello,
Before taking this PC to the dump, why not try installing an alternative OS like ChromeOS Flex? The specifications of this machine lend themselves to being transformed into a Chromebook.
https://chromeos.google/intl/en/products/chromeos-flex/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gbkTvawn-w
https://support.google.com/chromeosflex/answer/11552529?hl=en
Hello,
The only solution is to replace Windows with a lightweight "Windows Friendly" Linux distribution.
And to do that, you need to find the trick to boot it from a USB stick...
A lead here: https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/liste_portables_thomson
With 2 GB of RAM, Windows was able to run? Even for Linux, that's a bit tight.