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Old 02-14-2017, 08:29 AM   #1
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Calibre weird usage of hard drive

I started out when using Calibre at 90 gig on my C drive. I took all of my books that I had on a 32 gig micro sd card and switched them to epub.
It used 33 gigs of memory, so far so good.
Then I formatted a 64 gig micro sd and tried to move just the repubs to the ed card. The computer slowed to a crawl and after leaving it on all night barely had moved any. I know from previous experience that epubs are small and move fast.
So I went to try it again last night figuring I had done something wrong.
The c drive was now done to 15 gig so I deleted about 10 gig of other stuff and started calibre up again to move the epubs to the 64 gig micro sd.
I looked this morning and only 4% had moved and next I tried to check the sd card to see how many books were on it, but Windows 7 explorer just kept searching all of my hard drives and never showed any.
I think I did something stupid and restarted the computer and now windows 7 won,t start. It just hangs at the bios, no errors it just sits there.
I'm assuming there is not enough free space on my C drive to let it start.
I have searched a bunch to see why Calibre would need so much space on a hard drive and have come up empty. During the a move use of Calibre I had nothing else running.
Any help with this would be appreciated.
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Old 02-14-2017, 12:38 PM   #2
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Okay it gets even weirder, but I think I have solved the issue.

The computer started fine without the 64g sd card plugged in.

My C hard drive is okay at 14 gig.

It is very strange, but I actually kept watching the C drives gigs go down yesterday as it was trying to move the books.
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Old 02-15-2017, 05:42 AM   #3
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The computer started fine without the 64g sd card plugged in.
Your PC tried to boot off the SD card, probably. Which (unless you went to the trouble of making it bootable) will fail in this way. I've been bitten by it a few times as well ('Why does it hang...oh, crap, the SD card is still in there' ).
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So change the Boot order (or allowed Boot devices) in the BIOS to make SD cards AFTER the HD (CD,HD,USB/SD) and not worry.

This is probably not doable, if you do boot from a USB drive normally.

For a 1 time alternate boot <F12> on some (Dell) BIOS allows you to choose
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So change the Boot order (or allowed Boot devices) in the BIOS to make SD cards AFTER the HD (CD,HD,USB/SD) and not worry.

This is probably not doable, if you do boot from a USB drive normally.

For a 1 time alternate boot <F12> on some (Dell) BIOS allows you to choose
Sure. But I'm often the go-to guy in case of PC problems, and I've run into this 'boot problem' more than once
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