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Anna
AnnieO said:
Annie:
It is difficult to imagine what Sony had in mind when they partitioned the
drive in the manner they did. In any event, keep transferring from the C:
drive to your D: partition as much as your programs/applications &
user-created data as the system will allow. And try to install any new
programs in that latter partition as well. Hopefully that will relieve the
space crunch at least to some degree.
Should you utilize all the disk space on the C: drive, the D: drive will not
"take over" as the primary, i.e., C: drive. The C: drive would then simply
not accept any more data being installed to that partition.
As I previously indicated, it is possible that you could manipulate the
partitions re assigning disk space to each partition through the use of a
disk partition manager such as the one I mentioned - Symantec's Partition
Magic. We've successfully used that program many, many times over the years
to merge and otherwise manipulate partition disk space. There are also a
number of other disk partitioning programs available, but our experience has
been nearly exclusively with the PM program which by & large is considered
the industry standard for this type of program.
But please understand that this type of partition merging/manipulation is
not a trivial process and there's no absolute guarantee of success or the
possibility that data will not be lost. In virtually every case where we're
about to undertake the process, we first use a disk imaging program (such as
the Acronis program previously mentioned) to clone the contents of the drive
in question to another HDD before undertaking the merging operation. It is
essential (in our view) that the user backup what he/she considers
important/essential files *before* using a partition management program to
undertake this partition merging operation. But in most cases - assuming
we're dealing with a non-defective functional HDD to begin with, the merging
process works just fine without further ado on the user's part.
If you do decide to go this route it really would be helpful if you had a
knowledgeable friend or associate who could assist you in using this type of
program. While it's not too terribly complex to use, it sometimes can seem
somewhat bewildering & intimidating to the first-time user. So it would be
helpful if you had at your side someone who has previously used that program
or a similar one.
One other thing - it would be a good idea to check with Sony's tech support
to determine if the above is feasible. Unfortunately, in too many instances
these OEM machines contain non-standard proprietary elements of one sort or
another that negatively impact on a process such as the one we're
discussing. So do check with Sony first about the feasibility of this
approach.
Anna