increasing partitioned drive / raw files

[Guest]

Good Morning, I have 2 questions.

1st Question:

I have 140 gig HD in my computer, after installation it only shows 134.6
gigs. When it was installed they put 14.6 gigs for my C: Drive and 120 gigs
for my D: Drive.

My question is can i take some space from my D:drive and addit to my C:
drive, because its almost full? I only have 612 MB left.


2nd Question

I have a 300 gig hard drive that was from my old computer and want to add it
but it says that has to be formatted. When i run a check disk on it. It tells
me that check disk is not available for RAW drives. I would like to save some
documents from there.

Any suggestions before formatting?

 

[RedForeman]

1st Question:

I have 140 gig HD in my computer, after installation it only shows 134.6
gigs. When it was installed they put 14.6 gigs for my C: Drive and 120 gigs
for my D: Drive.

My question is can i take some space from my D:drive and addit to my C:
drive, because its almost full? I only have 612 MB left.

Just the opposite, you have to move the documents and stuff from
Crive, and move them into Drive... same concept, different
approach. Only problem, the size of the drives are virtually fixed,
the size can't change, but the contents can. Store your files on D
instead of C... Use C for system, D for data.. If you've had the
machine for a long time and don't want the hassle, just start with a
few documents at a time. Alternatively, you could uninstall some
large programs, and reinstall them onto the larger drive, thus freeing
up large amounts of space at once....

2nd Question
I have a 300 gig hard drive that was from my old computer and want to add it
but it says that has to be formatted. When i run a check disk on it. It tells
me that check disk is not available for RAW drives. I would like to save some
documents from there.
Any suggestions before formatting?
Jlibra67

On a working, functioning PC, (if you know how, if not, find a
knowledgeable person to help) and with the power off, check the jumper
settings and add the 300g drive to the system, power on, see if the
drive is recognized, and available... if not, probably not formatted
yet... you could go into computer management and format the drive, but
it might take a while.. like almost an hour... so maybe mounting it
and then formatting it while you sleep isn't a bad idea.... I usually
do it that way....

btw, what are RAW files anyway? I know what RAW data is, but it's
usually raw, not RAW.....

RedForeman

 

[Rich Barry]

There are third party programs that can resize partitions. Partition
Magic comes to mind.
For the second question, when adding the 300G hard drive to your system
did you properly set the jumper to Master, Slave or Cable Select which ever
is appropriate? If SATA drive are drivers needed? You can rt click
MyComputer>select
Manage>Disk Management. If the drive shows up there you can assign it a
drive letter. Once the drive is initialized you can
access it and remove any files you need and then format or do a scan disk.

 

[Rock]

Good Morning, I have 2 questions.

1st Question:

I have 140 gig HD in my computer, after installation it only shows 134.6
gigs. When it was installed they put 14.6 gigs for my C: Drive and 120
gigs
for my D: Drive.

My question is can i take some space from my D:drive and addit to my C:
drive, because its almost full? I only have 612 MB left.

XP does not have the tools to do this non destructively. There are 3rd
party tools that will. These include BootIt NG (BING) from Terabyte
Unlimited which has a 30 day full featured free trial version, Acronis Disk
Director Suite, and Partition Magic from Symantec. Both of the latter are
not free.

<snip>

 

[dobey]

Good Morning, I have 2 questions.

1st Question:

I have 140 gig HD in my computer, after installation it only shows 134.6
gigs. When it was installed they put 14.6 gigs for my C: Drive and 120
gigs
for my D: Drive.

My question is can i take some space from my D:drive and addit to my C:
drive, because its almost full? I only have 612 MB left.

You might consider either moving your swapfile to the D: drive, and/or
remapping some of your data folders to the D: drive. For example if you
right-click on My documents you can point this to a directory on the D:
drive, and it will be transparent to you, that is you won't know the
difference.

Check your temp folders to see how much data they contain also.

You can resize partitions, but if it doesn't go right it's a hassle, because
you may not be able to boot into windows.

As someone suggseted, BootitNG is quite good.

2nd Question

I have a 300 gig hard drive that was from my old computer and want to add
it
but it says that has to be formatted. When i run a check disk on it. It
tells
me that check disk is not available for RAW drives. I would like to save
some
documents from there.

Any suggestions before formatting?

Just connect the disk, go into device manager, select the drive, create a
new partition then format. It's a good idea to use volume labels, as if you
ever need to access the machine through DOS, or a similar program the drive
letters might change.

Format then run chkdsk /r - this will check the entire drive.