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    UX32VD Memory upgrade woes

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by ralbrux, Mar 3, 2013.

  1. ralbrux

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    UX3VD-R3001H Zenbook, i5-3317u (Ivy Bridge) CPU, BIOS: mode UEFI, AMI UX32VD.213, ,16/11/2012, Windows 8 64-bit (not pro version) pre-installed, 24 GB ssd & 500 GB HD


    After setting up my UX32VD and consulting online numerous reviews, tear-downs and forums, I decided to upgrade my ram module from the factory installed 2GB to a Kingston 8gb module so as to have a total of 10 GB of ram, I did not replace either of the 2 factory installed drives nor touch the OS.

    The physical installation of ram went very easily and bios and Win 8 both immediately found the new ram.

    My research on the net indicated that I needed to modify the 2 partitions on the 24GB ssd in such a way that the size of the IntelRST partition be made equal to my new ram, i.e, resize from the factory setting of 4 GB to 10 GB. To do that it is, of course necessary to shrink the Express Cache partition since there was no space between the 2 partitions.

    Most sites only showed the physical aspects of the ram upgrade saying nothing about reconfiguring Intel Rapid Start and Express Cache. The only useful info I found on this was a post on a French language site ( Asus Zenbook UX32VD - Update: 02/03/13 [Topic Unique] - Ultraportable - Ordinateurs portables - FORUM HardWare.fr). This post suggested uninstalling Intel Rapid Start, deleting all partitions on the ssd, create the required 2 partitions and finally reinstall Intel RST and reset ExpressCache on their new partitions.

    Window Disk Management is of no use here. So I used EeaseUS Partition Master and subsequently PartedMagic (Linux) live on a usb stick. I did the resizing by first deleting the Express Cache partition and then expanding the Intel RST partition to 10 GB then recreating an Express Cache using the remaining space (12,37 GB).

    This where the problems began. EaseUS PM showed the Express Cache partition as having a file system listed as “other”. After much mucking around on the net I found that it seems that it is formated with the Mac HFS file system. I used PartedMagic to do this (although I later saw on some posts that it can be done with Windows diskpart (“create partition primary id=af”).

    I wound up with 2 new partitions (verified with EaseUS PM, PartedMagic, Disk Management and diskpart), and 2 problems;

    Intel RST will not reinstall (I downloaded the latest version from ASUS Win 8 (2010,1002) and it brings up the error message that my computer does not meet the minimum requirements.

    When I try to reconfigure Express cache by running “C:\Program Files\Diskeeper Corporation\ExpressCache\eccmd -partition 2” it brings up the error message: “HFS Volume is not mounted. Requested device is not available”

    Anybody have an idea on this issue?

    Thanks,
    Richard
     
    ralbrux, Mar 3, 2013
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