hdd no space

[paul3200]

i have a hard drive with 2 partitions (C & F) C (the one with windows,
program files, Documents and settings...) has basicly no space left 1GB. but
F has nothing saved on it it has 27GB left. if i delete F partition where
does the 27GB go?? will it go to C or will i loose it?? (
i have made a back up of C)

 

[Nepatsfan]

i have a hard drive with 2 partitions (C & F) C (the one with windows,
program files, Documents and settings...) has basicly no space left 1GB.
but
F has nothing saved on it it has 27GB left. if i delete F partition where
does the 27GB go?? will it go to C or will i loose it?? (
i have made a back up of C)

Once you delete the partition, that portion of your hard drive becomes
unallocated space. You will need a third
party program to add this space to your C drive. Norton Partition Magic,
Acronis Disk Director, and BootIT NG
are three applications that will do the job. I believe that trial versions
of Disk Director and BootIT NG are available.

Norton PartitionMagic 8.0
http://www.symantec.com/norton/products/overview.jsp?pcid=sp&pvid=pm80

Acronis Disk Director 10.0
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/

BootIT Next Generation
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-next-generation.htm

Good luck

Nepatsfan

 

[paul3200]

Once you delete the partition, that portion of your hard drive becomes
unallocated space. You will need a third
party program to add this space to your C drive. Norton Partition Magic,
Acronis Disk Director, and BootIT NG
are three applications that will do the job. I believe that trial versions
of Disk Director and BootIT NG are available.

Norton PartitionMagic 8.0
http://www.symantec.com/norton/products/overview.jsp?pcid=sp&pvid=pm80

Acronis Disk Director 10.0
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/

BootIT Next Generation
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-next-generation.htm

Good luck

Nepatsfan

i have just bought 'Registry Mechanic' by 'pc tools'
will this program do it
fanx 4 ur help btw

 

[Don Phillipson]

i have a hard drive with 2 partitions (C & F) C (the one with windows,
program files, Documents and settings...) has basicly no space left 1GB. but
F has nothing saved on it it has 27GB left. if i delete F partition where
does the 27GB go?? will it go to C or will i loose it?? (

You can simpy use drive F: to store either data or
programmes. It would be wise first to ensure it is NTFS
(= NT File System, better for WinXP than FAT32 type).
If not, use the WinXP drive conversion utility to reformat
it NTFS. (You do not need to use a partition utility for this.)

Next, you can use My Computer / Performance / Virtual
Memory to put your Windows swap file onto drive F:
which will free up some drive space on C:
Then see about clearing out junk files on C:, undelete
apps you never use nowadays, and so on.
Then move bulky data folders (e.g. music or video)
over to F:

 

[Richard in AZ]

|
|
| "Nepatsfan" wrote:
|
| > | > >i have a hard drive with 2 partitions (C & F) C (the one with windows,
| > > program files, Documents and settings...) has basicly no space left 1GB.
| > > but
| > > F has nothing saved on it it has 27GB left. if i delete F partition where
| > > does the 27GB go?? will it go to C or will i loose it?? (
| > > i have made a back up of C)
| >
| >
| > Once you delete the partition, that portion of your hard drive becomes
| > unallocated space. You will need a third
| > party program to add this space to your C drive. Norton Partition Magic,
| > Acronis Disk Director, and BootIT NG
| > are three applications that will do the job. I believe that trial versions
| > of Disk Director and BootIT NG are available.
| >
| > Norton PartitionMagic 8.0
| > http://www.symantec.com/norton/products/overview.jsp?pcid=sp&pvid=pm80
| >
| > Acronis Disk Director 10.0
| > http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/
| >
| > BootIT Next Generation
| > http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-next-generation.htm
| >
| > Good luck
| >
| > Nepatsfan
| >
| >
| >
| >
|
| i have just bought 'Registry Mechanic' by 'pc tools'
| will this program do it
| fanx 4 ur help btw

NO. Registry Mechanic will not do what you want.
Partition Magic and Acronis have the tools to expand the C drive into the space used by the F drive.

You don't say how big your total drive is, but you only have 27 GB on F.
You can buy quite large hard drives for little $$ now. You might consider getting a larger drive
and clone your old C drive over to the larger drive. A 160 GB Western Digital drive can be
purchased for under $50 and you can download the cloning software from Western Digital's web site.

 

[Bill Sharpe]

i have just bought 'Registry Mechanic' by 'pc tools'
will this program do it
fanx 4 ur help btw

I think you should have asked the question before you bought the
product. Visit the web site or call PC Tools.

Bill

 

[Nepatsfan]

i have just bought 'Registry Mechanic' by 'pc tools'
will this program do it
fanx 4 ur help btw

Hopefully it came with a money back guarantee. Registry Mechanic will not
help with your issue. Do yourself a favor and ask for a refund.

Any of the programs I listed in my earlier response will allow you to merge
the unallocated space that used to be your F drive into your C drive so your
entire hard drive consists of 1 partition. Give the trial version of Acronis
Disk Director a shot.

Nepatsfan

 

[Mike Torello]

i have just bought 'Registry Mechanic' by 'pc tools'
will this program do it

Money poured down the drain.

Before you waste/spend any more, get this FREE product:

http://www.partition-tool.com/

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

i have a hard drive with 2 partitions (C & F) C (the one with windows,
program files, Documents and settings...) has basicly no space left 1GB.
but
F has nothing saved on it it has 27GB left. if i delete F partition where
does the 27GB go?? will it go to C or will i loose it?? (
i have made a back up of C)

Move all of your 'My Documents' to the F drive.. instructions here..

http://www.techsupportalert.com/how_to_move_my_documents.htm

Try downloading and running CCleaner. This will dump a variety of files
which will help with the space.

You might also want to consider moving it all to a larger drive..

 

[Gerry]

Paul

I would not have Registry Mechanic on my computer.

Others have suggested third party partioning tools. Some other suggestions
follow.

There are many other options for increasing free disk space on a Windows
partition if you have another partition / drive.

The default allocation to System Restore is 12% on your C partition
which is over generous. I would reduce it to 700 mb. Right click your My
Computer icon on the Desktop and select System Restore. Place the cursor
on your C drive select Settings but this time find the slider and drag
it to the left until it reads 700 mb and
exit. When you get to the Settings screen click on Apply and OK and
exit.

Another default setting which could be wasteful is that for temporary
internet files, especially if you do not store offline copies on disk.
The default allocation is 3% of drive. Depending on your attitude to
offline copies you could reduce this to 1% or 2%. In Internet Explorer
select Tools, Internet Options, General, Temporary Internet Files,
Settings to make the change. At the same time look at the number of days
history is held.

The default allocation for the Recycle Bin is 10 % of drive. Change to
5%, which should be sufficient. In Windows Explorer place the cursor
on your Recycle Bin, right click and select Properties, Global and
move the slider from 10% to 5%. However, try to avoid letting it get
too full as if it is full and you delete a file by mistake it will
bypass the Recycle Bin and be gone for ever.

Select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp to
Empty your Recycle Bin and Remove Temporary Internet Files. Also
select Start, All Programs, accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp,
More Options, System Restore and remove all but the latest System
Restore point. Run Disk Defragmenter.

Select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, System
Information, Tools, Dr Watson and verify that the box before "Append to
existing log" is NOT checked. This means the next time the log is
written it will overwrite rather than add to the existing file.

The default maximum size setting for Event Viewer logs is too large.
Reset the maximum for each log from 512 kb to 128 kb and set it to
overwrite.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us

You can generate more space in the system partition by relocation of
folders.

For Temporary Internet Files select Start, Control Panel, Internet
Options, Temporary Internet Files. Settings, Move Folder.

To move the Outlook Express Store Folder select in Outlook Express
Tools, Options, Maintenance, Store Folder, Change.
http://www.tomsterdam.com/insideoe/files/store.htm

How to Change the Default Location of the My Documents Folder:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310147

You may also need to change Default File locations in the Microsoft
Office programmes you choose to move the My Documents folder. For Word
go to Tools, Options, File Locations, highlight Documents, click on
Modify and change file path. For Excel go to Tools, Options, General
and change default file path.

My Documents is one of a number of system created Special Folders
including My Pictures and My Music. These can more easily be relocated
using TweakUi. Download TweakUI, one of the MS powertoys, from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

In TweakUi select My Computer, Special Folders. You can scroll down to
see the full list of Special Folders to the left of the Change
Location button.

You can move programmes but to do this you have to uninstall and
reinstall.

--
Regards.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[Twayne]

With respect to XP:

Yes, there are many places that space is wasted and can be recovered;
restore points, restore points on drives that can't use them (non-system
containing drives), recycle bin, temporary files, stored emails, backups
of files, MRU's, pagefile, cookies, and on and on and on.
However they are only temporary stop gaps and the old problem will be
back in short order and each time it happens it will be with more
vengence than the last time.
The only actually meaningful "fix" is to increase the available drive
space by at least another 50% or more. Even 50 Gig isn't wasteful for
the operating system consdiering growth and expansion due to normal
events.
If one's data is backed up it can often be easiest when there is a
pretty much unused parition, to simply update the backup and do a clean
install of windows, starting right from deleting the partitions and
putting back one large partition since if the second one is mostly
empty, it's not going to be missed anyway.

Unless you're the techie type, you want to read well about programs like
BootItNG and some of the freebies that exist though.

Often, for less than the cost of somethign like Partition Magic, you can
buy a 500 Gig drive that, added to the existing drive/s, might well last
the rest of the life of the machine.
And for hard drives, be sure to look for the 7200 rpm variety, not
the older 5400 rpm. It doesn't sound like a lot of difference but it's
definitely noticeable during reads and writes.
AFter hard drives the next best thing to look for is enough RAM so
that your paging file is never or at least very rarely used. For many
that's only a Gig of RAM, 2 Gig at the most for some of the more active
and intense users like serious gamers. To gauge whether more RAM would
be helpful there are many pagefile monitors around the 'net that will
monitor them over periods of time and show whether the pagefile is used
heavily or not. In an idea situation it will not be used.

HTH,

Twayne