Yes, If you install a new hard drive that is larger and
faster, you will see improvements in boot time if you set
the computer up [ eventually ] to boot from the new drive.
You can do this in several ways.
You can install the new drive, jumpered as master and with
the old drive jumpered as slave, and do a clean install of
the operating system and your applications to the new drive.
You can then simply copy your data files to the new drive
[and keep the old drive as a backup for a while]. This has
the advantage of having a clean install of all your program
files and a clean registry. You will have the chance to
create partitions on the new drive to isolate and secure
your data if you choose to do so. You can set your computer
up so the operating system and application files are on C:\
and your data files [my documents] are on E:\ {a partition
on the same drive} which means that you can reinstall the
operating system without having to worry about your data
files if you have a problem in the future.
You can use programs that are supplied by the hard drive
mfg'rs to set the new drive up.
Until you decide what you'll do, you can archive old data
files to a CD-R and then delete them from the old hard
drive. You can run disk cleanup to remove temp files to
make more room.
| Can I do that with out loosing the programs which I have
| installed on my hard drive?
|
| Lak
| >-----Original Message-----
| >Disk drive are sold by one size, but when formatted and
| used
| >they will never hold as much as advertised. Data is
| stored
| >in clusters, depending on the format these clusters will
| be
| >sized to make wasted space as little as possible, but all
| >file systems will have wasted space. If your cluster
size
| >is 4 KB and you save a 5 KB file, it will fill one
cluster
| >and place 1 KB in another cluster, result 3 KB wasted.
| >
| >Disk Manufacturers advertise disk size as 1 GB =
| >1,000,000,000 bytes, but the actual size of a GB is
| >1024x1024x1024 = 1,073,741,824 or a difference of about
7%
| >
| >You can buy a 40 GB hard drive for very little money,
they
| >are easy to install.
| >
| >
| message
| >| >| Dear Sir/Madam
| >| I have got a gateway desktop computerof Windows 98.
| >| My 'C' drive capacity is 2GB. Now a days I am always
| >| getting disk is full when ever I try to run a simple
| >| program as well. I have cleaned the disk space. The
main
| >| thing is when I tried to count the memory taken up by
| all
| >| the folders and and all system files on C drive it is
| not
| >| even counting upto 1.5GB. I am not sure what happened
to
| >| the other memory? How can I get back the memory back.
| Can
| >| I run anything to get back memory or some thing?
| >|
| >| Thanks in advance.
| >|
| >| Lak
| >
| >
| >.
| >
