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I have 23 GB of memory in C drive. And "less" than 750 MB in E drive. How do
I move some of C drive memory to my E drive. My system was originally setup
for only 8 GB in E drive (some idiot geek did this)--the rest went to my C
drive. This has created quite a problem. Thanks for your help and/or
suggestions.
 
Joanna said:
I have 23 GB of memory in C drive. And "less" than 750 MB in E drive.
How do I move some of C drive memory to my E drive. My system was
originally setup for only 8 GB in E drive (some idiot geek did
this)--the rest went to my C drive.
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First, note that you are talking about disk space, *not* memory. The term
"memory" is not used for disk space, but for RAM--the thing that you
probably have somewhere between 256MB-512MB of.

Second, what you want to do is not "increase memory," but change the
partition structure of your drive, so that one partition gets bigger and
another gets smaller.

Unfortunately, no version of Windows before Vista provides any way of
changing the existing partition structure of the drive nondestructively. The
only way to do what you want is with third-party software. Partition Magic
is the best-known such program, but there are freeware/shareware
alternatives. One such program is BootIt Next Generation. It's shareware,
but comes with a free 30-day trial, so you should be able to do what you
want within that 30 days. I haven't used it myself (because I've never
needed to use *any* such program), but it comes highly recommended by
several other MVPs here.

Whatever software you use, make sure you have a good backup before
beginning. Although there's no reason to expect a problem, things *can* go
wrong.


This has created quite a
problem.
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Exactly what problem has it created?
 
Joanna

I think you are talking about free disk space and not memory. There
are two type of memory. RAM memory and Virtual Memory. A computer will
first store data in RAM memory and when there is not enough free RAM
it moves data to Virtual Memory. The main source of Virtual Memory is
the pagefile on the hard drive.
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

You may also be confused by what a drive is? There are many types of
drive. Most computers will have one or two internal hard drives. If
there are two, one will be the master and the second will be a slave.
A hard drive may be a single volume or it may be divided into two or
more partitions (akas a volume). A letter is appended to each volume.
You can determine whether you have one or two drives by selecting
Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management. Disk
Management. A graphical display will show only Disk 0 if you have a
single hard drive and Disk 0 and Disk 1 if you have two drives. Whilst
in Disk Management how large does it say C is and how large is E?

On most computers the Windows Operating System is placed on the C
drive along with the pagefile. You can however, place the page file on
another drive, or if you wish have a page file on all or some other
hard drives or partitions of a drive. To ascertain where your
pagefile is located select right click on your My Computer icon on
your Desktop and select Properties, Advanced, Performance Settings,
Advanced, Virtual Memory, Change. What do you find?

What is the make and model of your computer?

If you need to create more disk space on E please tell us what types
of files are locasted there.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatile_memory
 
Joanna,

what you need to do is figure out what software you have installed on your
C: drive and your E: drive, and uninstall some of the software from E: and
reinstall it on C:. If you have a large number of files that you have
downloaded from other places (shareware, utility files or possibly even music
that you have ripped from whatever source) you may want to move them to a
folder on the C: drive. I highly recommend AGAINST trying to use a third
party application to repartition your drives, because the results are never
guaranteed, and if it messes up your install, you may lose all the data
depending on what it does to your mater boot record. Boot Magic forced me to
have to low level format my 160 GB SATA drive and reinstall everything from
scratch (XP 64 bit, RedHat 64 bit and 120 GB of music and games that I
fortunately had the installs and original CD's for, but lost 10 GB of
personal data because I wasn't expecting the unexpected and didn't follow my
own advice to burn it to a CD)

So, as a recap, if it is something you can uninstall and reinstall to move
it from your E to the C, then by all means do so. The only other thing I
recommend is to make sure you have copies of all the data you don't want to
lose (burning it to CD as a backup is a wonderful idea) and repartition,
reformat and reinstall.
 
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