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If you choose to respond, please keep in mind I am new to all this.
I bought a new hard drive and did a fresh installation of XP Professional.
For whatever reason, I had some errors in the install. However, I was able to
complete the install. Not knowing how those errors would affect my computer,
I decided to install again into the larger partition I had hoped to use
strictly for data. I was successful and have been happily using my system for
a while now.
Recently my computer gets bogged down during startup. It does not bog does
as badly when I run off the first C:/ drive installation, only the second E:/
drive install. I am not sure if that has to do with the bios, the dual boot
setup, or the many windows updates (SP2, etc.) that I have installed on the
E:/ drive.
I should stop here and a asks for suggestions. Feel free to base your
comments just on the problem above as the slow boot up is the reason for my
question. But I also have an idea of my own. So now I continue...
I would like to move my operating system from E:/ to C:/. Why? because of
all the updates I do not want to go through again. Also, I would like to move
my program files into the C:/ drive (which I have not been doing although
that was my original intent). This is when I encounter problem number 2. When
I first did the partition, I thought I would only need 1GB for the operating
system. Bad assumption as now my WINDOWS folder contains 3GB+ (probably due
to updates). I have unallocated hard drive space. I want to add this
unallocated space to my C:/ drive and then just move my WINDOWS folder, et
al. This does not seem possible. And I cannot delete and/or repartition my
C:/ drive because it is the system drive. Thoughts?
I bought a new hard drive and did a fresh installation of XP Professional.
For whatever reason, I had some errors in the install. However, I was able to
complete the install. Not knowing how those errors would affect my computer,
I decided to install again into the larger partition I had hoped to use
strictly for data. I was successful and have been happily using my system for
a while now.
Recently my computer gets bogged down during startup. It does not bog does
as badly when I run off the first C:/ drive installation, only the second E:/
drive install. I am not sure if that has to do with the bios, the dual boot
setup, or the many windows updates (SP2, etc.) that I have installed on the
E:/ drive.
I should stop here and a asks for suggestions. Feel free to base your
comments just on the problem above as the slow boot up is the reason for my
question. But I also have an idea of my own. So now I continue...
I would like to move my operating system from E:/ to C:/. Why? because of
all the updates I do not want to go through again. Also, I would like to move
my program files into the C:/ drive (which I have not been doing although
that was my original intent). This is when I encounter problem number 2. When
I first did the partition, I thought I would only need 1GB for the operating
system. Bad assumption as now my WINDOWS folder contains 3GB+ (probably due
to updates). I have unallocated hard drive space. I want to add this
unallocated space to my C:/ drive and then just move my WINDOWS folder, et
al. This does not seem possible. And I cannot delete and/or repartition my
C:/ drive because it is the system drive. Thoughts?