Just to be clear Dell 3162 (2GB RAM, 32GB eMMC)
1) Recently did the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (version 1607)
- because of the small eMMC drive - ran into problems.
Kept getting messages to do disk cleanup and use another drive.
Fortunately I had a 64GB microSDXC card inserted and was able to point to that.
Even so the update failed several times usually during the last stages of reboot and install.
This eventually got to the point where space left on the limited 32GB eMMC was not enough - even when using the other drive.
So had to find out how to do more than disk cleanup and free up space on the eMMC - found it was the steadily increasing WinSxS file that was gobbling up space - so had to find out how to safely reduce that file. and had to do searches on my desktop since the Dell 3162 was not really in a state to do anything - found:
www.howtogeek.com/.../
used:
DISM.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup
Eventually managed to complete the Windows 10 Anniversary update.
The only hint I can give to spare some of the grief I experienced is to be in attendance while doing the update and do the Restart Now.
Hopefully without the tedium I had to go through.
2) Noticed on about 3 occasions during shutdown - the Dell 3162 said it ran into a problem and had to restart - the error shown said STOP CODE and CACHE MANAGER.
The first couple of times I just ignored it - but when it happened last night - did a bit of research STOP CODE and CACHE MANAGER usually is associated with the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) - this is obviously not good.
Not having any more details did a sfc /scannow that was OK.
Then did a memory/RAM check using the built in Windows Memory Diagnostic - that seemed to run OK - and after reboot wanted to see the details so used Event Viewer (Windows 10 Notification also said OK - but it was real slow to show). That revealed there was a bad sector on drive DR1 - which was what?
Immediately did a check disk on c: (eMMC) seemed OK then tried on the D: drive = SDXC card and scan and repair would not finish - Windows could not repair.
So tried at cmd level ChkDsk D: /f /r - found bad sectors but did not repair.
Checked drive was marked "Dirty" but on reboot - ChkDsk did not run, or repair the drive.
Tried things like Partition Managers from MiniTool and EaseUS - could not repair the drive...
Then eventually dawned on me perhaps it was because the SDXC card was not NTFS (it was exFAT) that was preventing the ChkDsk from finishing.
So attached a portable HDD and copied all from the SDXC. The formatted the SDXC card to NTFS.
Ran Check disk several time and Windows did not find any errors - Copied back all the files to the SDXC card (NTFS formatted) and all seems well. Several subsequent Check disks all ran without showing any faults.
I think for this case I used the SD card formatted with SD Association's SD formatter, so the default and compatible format was exFAT -
To use the SDXC card on a PC as a drive it probably really should be NTFS?
Thanks for reading,
Vincent
