Drive C/ is Full

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XP Professional
The C drive on my PC is getting full and although I try to keep deleting
stuff it needs more space. It is 10GB and I only have around 750MB left.
The PC was set up with another 4 drives. and they have plenty of space on
them i.e. 9.6GB 43.1GB 38.2GB and 44.2Gb.
How do I make the C drive larger to accomodate more???
 
You should uninstall some of the applications and reinstall them to your
other available drives.

Another way to free some space is to change your setting. Go to IE setting
and reduce your temperory internet files folder size; Reduce the size of your
Recycle Bin; reduce the disk spae for System Restore; turn off hibernate
functions.

Hope these helps,
 
ciscokid said:
XP Professional
The C drive on my PC is getting full and although I try to keep
deleting stuff it needs more space. It is 10GB and I only have around
750MB left. The PC was set up with another 4 drives. and they have
plenty of space on them i.e. 9.6GB 43.1GB 38.2GB and 44.2Gb.
How do I make the C drive larger to accomodate more???
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Do you have a single drive with four partitions?

Unfortunately, no version of Windows provides any way of changing the
existing partition structure of the drive nondestructively. The only way to
do what you want is with third-party software. Partition Magic is the
best-known such program, but there are freeware/shareware alternatives. One
such program is BootIt Next Generation. It's shareware, but comes with a
free 30-day trial, so you should be able to do what you want within that 30
days. I haven't used it myself (because I've never needed to use *any* such
program), but it comes highly recommended by several other MVPs here.

Whatever software you use, make sure you have a good backup before
beginning. Although there's no reason to expect a problem, things *can* go
wrong.
 
To add, the C win drive should be in the order of 15gb, assuming you are not
installing a raft of apps on the C drive
 
Many thanks!!

frankyz said:
You should uninstall some of the applications and reinstall them to your
other available drives.

Another way to free some space is to change your setting. Go to IE setting
and reduce your temperory internet files folder size; Reduce the size of your
Recycle Bin; reduce the disk spae for System Restore; turn off hibernate
functions.

Hope these helps,
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ciscokid said:
XP Professional
The C drive on my PC is getting full and although I try to keep deleting
stuff it needs more space. It is 10GB and I only have around 750MB left.
The PC was set up with another 4 drives. and they have plenty of space on
them i.e. 9.6GB 43.1GB 38.2GB and 44.2Gb.
How do I make the C drive larger to accomodate more???
Click to expand...

What was your final solution and what did you do?

thanks,
charles.....
 
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