120 gig hard drive C: full ?

[Guest]

I have a Sony VIAO RZ 14G with 120 gig hard drive, 1 gig of ram. My OS is XP Home. It looks like my hard drive is partitioned into a C: drive of 15 gig and a D: drive of 100 gig. Every program that is installed by me or my kids goes to the C: drive that is now full. I continually get an error message stating that I have low disk space but, my D: drive has over 95 gigs of space left.

Please help me anybody.

Randy

 

[Richard Urban]

During the install of many/most decent applications, you can choose the
advanced mode of install and "choose" where to install the program to.

Unfortunately, you can not just move a program, as all the registry entries
will continue to point to the original location. The program will likely
become broken.

The best thing for an inexperienced person to do (no slight intended) is to
uninstall the program from it's original location and then reinstall it to
the new location.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Guest]

I would suggest cleaning old files up on the C:
partition. You can also extended C: partition with
appropriate software. If you are inexperienced, take
computer to a shop to get partition exteneded
(recommended)

-----Original Message-----
I have a Sony VIAO RZ 14G with 120 gig hard drive, 1 gig

of ram. My OS is XP Home. It looks like my hard drive is
partitioned into a C: drive of 15 gig and a D: drive of
100 gig. Every program that is installed by me or my
kids goes to the C: drive that is now full. I
continually get an error message stating that I have low
disk space but, my D: drive has over 95 gigs of space
left.

 

[Jone Doe]

Take all your non-program files, like the gigs of MP3's your kids download,
and all the "hey that's a neat picture" jpg files and move them to the D:
drive.

Defrag the C: drive to recover the space you've gained.

I have a Sony VIAO RZ 14G with 120 gig hard drive, 1 gig of ram. My OS is

XP Home. It looks like my hard drive is partitioned into a C: drive of 15
gig and a D: drive of 100 gig. Every program that is installed by me or my
kids goes to the C: drive that is now full. I continually get an error
message stating that I have low disk space but, my D: drive has over 95 gigs
of space left.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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I have a Sony VIAO RZ 14G with 120 gig hard drive, 1 gig of ram. My
OS is XP Home. It looks like my hard drive is partitioned into a C:
drive of 15 gig and a D: drive of 100 gig. Every program that is
installed by me or my kids goes to the C: drive that is now full. I
continually get an error message stating that I have low disk space
but, my D: drive has over 95 gigs of space left.

Almost all programs give you a choice of where to install them.
They will almost always default to C: but you don't have to
accept that default and can change it to what you want.

You should certainly do that in the future, and you also should
uninstall some of the programs you already have, and reinstall
them on D: You can not (at least not without special software)
simply move a program from one drive to another.

 

[Darrell]

In addition, if you have made lots of changes or added things, you can copy
the program's folder as it currently is. After you reinstall the program to
its new location and establish the registry entries, you can overwrite the
new program with your old folder and make it like it was before.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have a Sony VIAO RZ 14G with 120 gig hard drive, 1 gig of ram. My OS is XP Home. It looks like my hard drive is partitioned into a C: drive of 15 gig and a D: drive of 100 gig. Every program that is installed by me or my kids goes to the C: drive that is now full. I continually get an error message stating that I have low disk space but, my D: drive has over 95 gigs of space left.

Start by making sure you transfer the 'My Documents' folders to the
other partition. Make a folder there for each user - eg D:\John;
D:\Mary. Then open a window on
C:\Documents and Settings\John, to show *his* 'My Documents' folder,
another on D:\John, and with the *right* mouse button down, drag the
folder across, taking *Move* here on release.
And similarly for other users.

You can also move Outlook Express's Store folder for mail and newsgroup
data; in OE Tools - Options - Maintenance click Store Folder.