Free Space

[John W]

Long story. I was having trouble with Windows 98 so a
friend of mine installed Windows XP on my puter. He left
Win 98 on Drive D and created a new drive C for XP.
Here's the problem. Drive D, which I don't use anymore
has 12.7 GB "total Size" and 7.96 GB "Free Space". Drive
C which has XP on it and is the one I use has 4.OO "Total
Size" with just 63.9MB "Free Space". The lack of "free
space" on Drive C is limiting what I can do. Is there a
way to move some of that "free space" on Drive D over to
Drive C?

Thanks for you help,
John

 

[ceedee]

omg thats the best laff ive had for ages

but if you are really serious you shouldnt be allowed near a pc

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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Long story. I was having trouble with Windows 98 so a
friend of mine installed Windows XP on my puter. He left
Win 98 on Drive D and created a new drive C for XP.
Here's the problem. Drive D, which I don't use anymore
has 12.7 GB "total Size" and 7.96 GB "Free Space". Drive
C which has XP on it and is the one I use has 4.OO "Total
Size" with just 63.9MB "Free Space". The lack of "free
space" on Drive C is limiting what I can do. Is there a
way to move some of that "free space" on Drive D over to
Drive C?

No, there's no way to change the partition structure of your
drive non-destructively with native Windows tools. The only way
to do what you want is with the use of a third-party program such
as partition Magic or Boot-It Next Generation.

 

[Plato]

omg thats the best laff ive had for ages

Spend less in chat to improve your image.

 

[Unknown]

You really should think about the question you asked. "Is there any way to
move some of that
'free space' on drive D to drive C?
If you had two glasses, one full of water the other one empty,
can you move some of that empty space to the full glass.
Ye Gads!

 

[ceedee]

"Spend less in chat to improve your image"

ha ha thats the second best....

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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You really should think about the question you asked. "Is there any
way to move some of that
'free space' on drive D to drive C?
If you had two glasses, one full of water the other one empty,
can you move some of that empty space to the full glass.
Ye Gads!

First of all, please be careful whose message you reply to. I
didn't ask the question, I answered it.

Second, although he may not have said it perfectly, it wasn't
that difficult to understand what John wants to do. He clearly
wants to change the partition structure of his drive, making C:
bigger at the expense of D:--thereby *effectively* moving "free
space" on Drive D to Drive C.

 

[Unknown]

I didn't respond to you. Secondly the question was NOT clear.

 

[John W]

So,....it sounds like maybe my friend installed another
drive onto my computer when he loaded Windows XP onto
it. Is that what happened?

 

[ceedee]

lol
how would we know its your pc
have a look inside it
if you see one harddrive then its partitioned into 2 drives
if you see 2 harddrives it isnt

if its partitioned you need a program such as partition magic to resize them
if its 2 seperate harddrives your stuck.
only way round it is to delete all of the files on the bigger drive
and then ghost an image of c: onto d: then use d: as your main drive
there are many drive imaging programs available norton ghost being a good
one.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Long story. I was having trouble with Windows 98 so a
friend of mine installed Windows XP on my puter. He left
Win 98 on Drive D and created a new drive C for XP.
Here's the problem. Drive D, which I don't use anymore
has 12.7 GB "total Size" and 7.96 GB "Free Space". Drive
C which has XP on it and is the one I use has 4.OO "Total
Size" with just 63.9MB "Free Space". The lack of "free
space" on Drive C is limiting what I can do. Is there a
way to move some of that "free space" on Drive D over to
Drive C?

Only with a third party boot manager - eg Partition Magic, or I would
use BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($35 shareware - 30 day full
functional trial)
Then you would reduce the size of D, move it up so there was unused disk
in front of it, and increase that of C into that.

You could move some of the data from C onto D and uninstall Programs to
reinstall on D, but as you have it the balance is poor.