Hard Drive Split

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Donald Maclean

I have a 60G hard drive When I bought the pc the dealer split my hard drive
10G =C the other 50G= D Now I have only 5% free space on drive C and am
unable to defrag..... how to I fix this. How do I Put another 5-10G into C
drive from my D drive. I am running XP Home addition.
 
Donald said:
I have a 60G hard drive When I bought the pc the dealer split my hard drive
10G =C the other 50G= D Now I have only 5% free space on drive C and am
unable to defrag..... how to I fix this. How do I Put another 5-10G into C
drive from my D drive. I am running XP Home addition.
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If you don't want to do a clean install of XP, then you need third-party
partitioning software. You might as well merge both partitions because
60GB is small. I prefer Acronis Disk Director, but BootIT NG has a
fully-functional trial version which you could use if you don't want to
buy a program you'll only use once. BootIT NG is pretty geeky to use
though, so be warned. ;-)


Malke
 
Thats all I have there-a couple of paint/photo programs leaves me with
542mb of free space.
Noncompliant said:
What do you have on C: other than XP, MS apps, and 3rd party apps?
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might run Disk Cleanup and enable all options included the extra options to remove all but last restore point.
might clean up some disk space.



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I have a 60G hard drive When I bought the pc the dealer split my hard drive
10G =C the other 50G= D Now I have only 5% free space on drive C and am
unable to defrag..... how to I fix this. How do I Put another 5-10G into C
drive from my D drive. I am running XP Home addition.
 
Don;
You have a few choices:
1. Follow Malkes' suggestion and use a 3rd party partitioning program
to resize the partitions.
2. Uninstall ALL other programs installed on C and reinstall on D.
That leaves 10 GB for just Windows, the bare minimum if that for only
Windows as well as applicable updates.

#1 is probably the better choice while another larger drive may be
better still.
 
If your personal files, particularly images, are on C:\ they're probably
taking up a lot of space.
 
Doesn't explain in my mind why would consume 10GB of partition space. Maybe
you're saving your personal data on C:?
And what do you use D: for?

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Noncompliant

Money don't wag the dog's tail.

Donald Maclean said:
Thats all I have there-a couple of paint/photo programs leaves me with
542mb of free space.
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C I use only for programs all personal data photos ect are on D ---
Could be an excuse to buy a new pc
 
10G =C the other 50G= D Now I have only 5% free space on drive C and am
unable to defrag..... how to I fix this. How do I Put another 5-10G into C
drive from my D drive. I am running XP Home addition.
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Longer term solution
Merge partitions using 3rd party software.
Buy new secondary drive and move all user data to new drive.

Phil
 
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