Lending Gigs

[YankFan]

I have my drive split into C and D. My C drive is getting low and I want to
give a couple of gigs to my C drive. How do I go about in doing that? I did
it once before but I can't remember. I've gone to Administrative
Tools, Disk Management but I cannot recall how. Can someone please let me
know before I run out of space.

Thanks in advance.


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[Steven L Umbach]

I believe if you are using dynamic disks you can usually expand the size but
not the system drive which would probably be your C drive. Basic disks can
not be expanded. You could simply move data folders or possibly even some
applications [never move system files] to a new program files folder on the
D drive. If you do such you will have to reconfigure the properties of the
desktop shortcuts to point to the new drive and maybe let programs know
where the data files have been moved to if they have a program associated
with them. If moving an application does not allow it to work you may have
to check the registry to see if there are keys that point to the original
drive or uninstall and reinstall the application to the D drive. There are
programs like Partition Magic that will let you change the size of your disk
partitions. The links below may help. If you do decide to try and
repartition your drive be sure to back up your critical data files to
cdrom/dvd just in case the operation does not go as planned. Sometimes if
you search your drive for temporary files [*.tmp] and look in your Windows
temp folder [\winnt\temp] you will be surprised at how much room you can
gain by deleting them. If you have a high speed internet connection you
should also review the size given to your temporary internet files and
reduce from default. I use 40MB and it works fine for me. --- Steve

http://labmice.techtarget.com/windows2000/diskmgmt/default.htm
http://www.snapfiles.com/shareware/system/swdisktools.html --- shareware
disk tools.

 

[Roger Abell]

To the OP: note that choosing to x-post to the security and networking
newsgroups was not appropriate. A newsgroup like windowsxp.* with
* = setup_maintain, general, customize may have been better choices.

In addition to what Steve has outlined, there is one other choice for XP.
If you have some free space or are willing to add a hard disk, you may
always select to mount a new partition at a path within c:\
As an example, say you large "c:\My Data" storage area. You can
format a new partition, set it as some letter X:\ temporarily, set the
NTFS permissions of X:\ such that they match what is on "c:\My Data"
(assuming it is already well-configured). Then, copy from "c:\My Data"
to X:\ and after this is compete and verified, one then deletes the
original
"c:\My Data" and uses the disk management interface to remount x: as
"c:\My Data"
This method when usable has the advantage that it does not increase the
exposure to hard drive failure in the way that extending a partition can.
With the extended partition, is any one of the extents becomes unusable
the entire set of that drive letter becomes unusable. With the mounting
method the vulnerability of the whole to failure is not increased, and
you have only the vulnerability of each part affecting that part.

--
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4) MCDBA

I believe if you are using dynamic disks you can usually expand the size but
not the system drive which would probably be your C drive. Basic disks can
not be expanded. You could simply move data folders or possibly even some
applications [never move system files] to a new program files folder on the
D drive. If you do such you will have to reconfigure the properties of the
desktop shortcuts to point to the new drive and maybe let programs know
where the data files have been moved to if they have a program associated
with them. If moving an application does not allow it to work you may have
to check the registry to see if there are keys that point to the original
drive or uninstall and reinstall the application to the D drive. There are
programs like Partition Magic that will let you change the size of your disk
partitions. The links below may help. If you do decide to try and
repartition your drive be sure to back up your critical data files to
cdrom/dvd just in case the operation does not go as planned. Sometimes if
you search your drive for temporary files [*.tmp] and look in your Windows
temp folder [\winnt\temp] you will be surprised at how much room you can
gain by deleting them. If you have a high speed internet connection you
should also review the size given to your temporary internet files and
reduce from default. I use 40MB and it works fine for me. --- Steve

http://labmice.techtarget.com/windows2000/diskmgmt/default.htm
http://www.snapfiles.com/shareware/system/swdisktools.html --- shareware
disk tools.