I am on a Dell Latitude Desktop with Windows 2000 V.5
running. When I installed Windows I repeated the basic
Win NT disk partitions that were on it when I got it:
C: 2GB FAT
D: 15GB NTFS
now, of course my C drive is full just with basic windows,
office and Internet Explorer overhead so I am constantly
getting "not enough disk space" errors from many programs.

Can I re-configure, or re-partition to a larger C: and
smaller D: without completely re-installing Win2000?

Bill

Hi, Bill.

The short answer is that you have two choices. Either:

1. Invest your time: Backup; repartition and reformat; restore, or

2. Invest your money: Buy a third-party utility, such as PowerQuest's
Partition Magic (about $70).

In the process, you probably should switch C: to NTFS unless you plan to
install Win9x/ME on this machine. If you reformat, that's easy. If you
don't reformat C:, it's also easy, but Win2K's convert.exe usually results
in 512-byte clusters, rather than the default 4 KB clusters produced by a
reformat. Small clusters use disk space more efficiently, but larger
clusters give faster performance.

I have no experience with a Dell laptop, so you might want to check with the
other Dell users in the Usenet newsgroup alt.sys.pc-clone.dell for any
quirks specific to Dell.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(E-Mail Removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP

"Bill Erdman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:0d1401c34d2d$fdea8ca0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I am on a Dell Latitude Desktop with Windows 2000 V.5
> running. When I installed Windows I repeated the basic
> Win NT disk partitions that were on it when I got it:
> C: 2GB FAT
> D: 15GB NTFS
> now, of course my C drive is full just with basic windows,
> office and Internet Explorer overhead so I am constantly
> getting "not enough disk space" errors from many programs.
>
> Can I re-configure, or re-partition to a larger C: and
> smaller D: without completely re-installing Win2000?
>
> Bill

Hi, Gary - and Bill.

> If your new disk is more than 32 gig you will need to use FDISK from ME
> to format it for > 32 Gig.

Use FDISK IF you want that >32 GB volume to be formatted FAT32. Win2K/XP
will happily format much larger volumes as NTFS.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(E-Mail Removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP

"Gary G. Little" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Well, what I would do would be to go buy another HDD and then GHOST C to
> that drive. Partition C as a single Partition and GHOST your image back to
> C. If your new disk is more than 32 gig you will need to use FDISK from
ME
> to format it for > 32 Gig.
>
> --
> Gary G. Little
> Seagate Technologies, LLC
> (E-Mail Removed)
>
> "Bill Erdman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:0d1401c34d2d$fdea8ca0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I am on a Dell Latitude Desktop with Windows 2000 V.5
> > running. When I installed Windows I repeated the basic
> > Win NT disk partitions that were on it when I got it:
> > C: 2GB FAT
> > D: 15GB NTFS
> > now, of course my C drive is full just with basic windows,
> > office and Internet Explorer overhead so I am constantly
> > getting "not enough disk space" errors from many programs.
> >
> > Can I re-configure, or re-partition to a larger C: and
> > smaller D: without completely re-installing Win2000?
> >
> > Bill

Yeah .. bad assumption on my part. You can GHOST an image to a DVD, CD, or
disk, but the disk will have be either FAT or FAT32 since it must be
accessible to DOS.

--
Gary G. Little
Seagate Technologies, LLC
(E-Mail Removed)

"R. C. White" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi, Gary - and Bill.
>
> > If your new disk is more than 32 gig you will need to use FDISK from ME
> > to format it for > 32 Gig.
>
> Use FDISK IF you want that >32 GB volume to be formatted FAT32. Win2K/XP
> will happily format much larger volumes as NTFS.
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> (E-Mail Removed)
> Microsoft Windows MVP
>
> "Gary G. Little" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Well, what I would do would be to go buy another HDD and then GHOST C to
> > that drive. Partition C as a single Partition and GHOST your image back
to
> > C. If your new disk is more than 32 gig you will need to use FDISK from
> ME
> > to format it for > 32 Gig.
> >
> > --
> > Gary G. Little
> > Seagate Technologies, LLC
> > (E-Mail Removed)
> >
> > "Bill Erdman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:0d1401c34d2d$fdea8ca0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > I am on a Dell Latitude Desktop with Windows 2000 V.5
> > > running. When I installed Windows I repeated the basic
> > > Win NT disk partitions that were on it when I got it:
> > > C: 2GB FAT
> > > D: 15GB NTFS
> > > now, of course my C drive is full just with basic windows,
> > > office and Internet Explorer overhead so I am constantly
> > > getting "not enough disk space" errors from many programs.
> > >
> > > Can I re-configure, or re-partition to a larger C: and
> > > smaller D: without completely re-installing Win2000?
> > >
> > > Bill
>
>