'networm' wrote, in part:
| It makes me feel guilty buy throwing away things but they are really
useless
| and occupy space...
_____
After replacing your older hard drive, reformat and install it to back up
data.
For one system I have a server case with 9 front access 5 1/4 inch bays and
a motherboard that supports 8 IDE connections. That system gets recycled
drives - it now has a 250 GByte drive, an 80 GByte drive, two 40 GByte
drives in RAID 0, and a 40 GByte drive. The 250 GByte drive had the lowest
purchase price. Anything under 40 GBytes I have wrapped in tinfoil and
Saran wrap. That's how I solve the guilt problem. The first hard drive I
bought had a capacity of 5 MBytes and a 1987 price of $500 US. The first
hard drive I used held 7.5 MBytes (removable) and leased for over $1000 US
per month (1968.)
Things change.
Phil Weldon
|
| | > 'networm' wrote, in part:
| > | I am running out of space on the system drive C drive:
| > |
| > | In particular, I have 11GB space originally on C, I thought it should
| > been
| > | sufficient when I partitioned my harddisks a while ago.
| > _____
| >
| > You can repartition your physical hard drive, but that requires third
| > party
| > software (Partition Magician, for example.)
| >
| > You haven't given information on what other partitions or physical hard
| > drives you have, and how much space is available there. Depending on
what
| > you actually have, the simplest and most effective way to free space in
| > the
| > C: partition is to move 'My Documents' to another partition. Because of
| > the
| > special nature of 'My Documents', all the programs that expect files in
| > 'My
| > Documents' will automatically use the actual location you have set up to
| > be
| > 'My Documents' rather than in 'C:\Documents and settings\'. If you have
| > plenty of space on another partition, then that move should free up
| > several
| > GBytes on your C: partition.
| >
| > Getting rid of 'Google Desktop Search' would be another easy way to free
| > space. Does it really save you enough time to balance what you will
have
| > to
| > go through to get free space in your C: partition?
| >
| > As you are finding out, partitioning can bite you when you're not
looking.
| > Unless you are using different file systems or more than one operating
| > system partitioning usually isn't a good idea. At the moment from the
| > information you provided, you can't even defrag your 'C:' partition.
| >
| > It might be time to consider a new hard drive, what with applications
and
| > media files using more and more hard drive space. And especially now
that
| > large drive costs have fallen to $0.35 US per GByte.
| >
| > Phil Weldon
| >
| > | > | Hi all,
| > |
| > | I am running out of space on the system drive C drive:
| > |
| > | In particular, I have 11GB space originally on C, I thought it should
| > been
| > | sufficient when I partitioned my harddisks a while ago.
| > |
| > | Now after taking a look, I found the breakdown is as follows, roughly:
| > |
| > | Documents and Settings: 4.5GB
| > | Windows: 4GB
| > | Program Files: 1.5GB
| > | Pagefile.sys: 1GB
| > |
| > |
| > | I guess I could not safely re-partition the drives to grab some space
| > from
| > | other partitions to this C drive.
| > |
| > | But I guess I could relocate some files.
| > |
| > | I guess I cannot relocate Windows and Pagefile.sys; and it is going to
| > | relatively harder to relocate Program Files...
| > |
| > | But can I relocate "Documents and Settings" safely?
| > |
| > | In particular, I've found the following directory takes about 3GB
space:
| > |
| > | C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application
Data
| > |
| > | More specifically, the Google Desktop Search silently occupied 1.5GB.
I
| > have
| > | tried to set my preferences, but amazingly Google Desktop Search does
| > not
| > | even offer an option to change the location of their cache file from C
| > drive
| > | to other places...
| > |
| > | What can I do?
| > |
| > | Thanks a lot!
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
|
| Yes, I can always buy a new and larger harddisk.
|
| But what am I going to do with my older harddisk?
|
| A rough count shows that I have 40GB, 40GB, 40GB, 40GB, 70GB, 20GB, 10GB
| scattering around my 3 computers, and I have just thrown away an old
laptop
| with 9.1GB and an old hardisk with 4.5GB a few days ago...
|
| It makes me feel guilty buy throwing away things but they are really
useless
| and occupy space...
|
| This the major reason why I don't buy a new and larger harddisk, although
I
| am yearning to buy one from time to time.
|
|
