Desperate to Recover Space on C: Drive

[Marshall Berzon]

I inherited a Dell machine from my office running NT
workstation. I reformatted the 6GB disk drive for Win2K,
but made the mistake of formatting it as a 2GB FAT drive
(C, and a 4GB NTFS drive (D. At this point, I have
moved pretty much all my applications (with the exception
of Semantec Internet Security and the Microsoft apps), and
all data files, to the D: drive, and I still end up with
only around 50MB of free space on C. Obviously, this
causes all sorts of problems, notably trying to run
Windows and Semantec Updates, since they have no room to
decompress their files.

Do any of you kind and knowledgable folk have any
suggestions to help me avoid reformatting the entire drive
as NTFS, and reinstalling all my applications? Almost all
the space on my C: drive is used by Windows and it's
associated apps (Outlook Express, IE, etc.), so if I could
identify Windows/Microsoft components that I don't use and
don't need (of which I assume there must be many,
although, of course, I could be totally wrong about that),
and if the OS would allow me to selectively remove them,
that's the only alternative I can think of.

Any ideas, suggestions, warnings?

Thank you very much, in advance. Please reply via email.

Marshall Berzon

 

[DL]

Converting the drive Fat to NTFS should not cause any data loss,
You could move yr page file to the larger drive as to could the My Documents
folder, temp internet files etc

 

[Guest]

I tried looking up page file in Help - utterly useless of course. Could you
recommend how to move the page file from C: to D:? That would help my space
problem immensely as Partition Magic 8 doesn't seem to be able to move the
partition (C and D are partitions on a single drive).

 

[Alan Illeman]

I tried an installation with separate partitions, thinking I could
isolate the pagefile but I ended up with a separate pagefile in
each partition. The 'right way' is to use a separate physical
drive for the pagefile (and another separate physical drive
for your data).

 

[Andy]

Right click my computer/properties/advanced and set the
page file location and size from there.

A 6G HD seems a bit too small though.

Hope this is useful.