New drive problem

[john]

My friend has just installed a new 80 gig drive and partitioned it
5 gig C and balance is F.His intention was to only have the operating
system on the C drive but everything he loads wants to go into programme
filec on C even when he specifys the F drive.

 

[Richard Urban]

Then he is not using a custom install and specifying the install path
correctly. Even if he does, there are "always" files that will default to
the C: drive. You can not change that behavior.

Example: Install AutoCAD onto drive D: and 90 meg will still be written to
drive C:

In my opinion, 5 gig for the Windows system is NOT large enough. I would
never recommend less that 10 gig.

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[john]

Thanks that was quick!

 

[John Barnett MVP]

Try using the 'custom' install of the software he is installing. this gives
you the opportunity to change directories/drives etc to where you want the
software to be installed.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi John,

Your friend can use the bootable version of BootIT NG to resize the existing
partition. Just create the floppy and boot with it, cancel out of
installation and enter maintenance. He needs to shrink (resize) the large
partition and possibly slide it so that the free space is at the end of the
existing C partition. He can then resize C to encompass the newly created
free space. Depending on the amount of data currently on the drive, these
operations may take considerable time to accomplish.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Don Burnette]

Others have already told you about doing custom installs specifying the
location to install in.

However, one thing to consider, is even 5gb is fairly tight for the XP os,
things to take into account - system restore, which eats space, virtual
memory,etc..

I have my C partition set at 10 gig, and it normally - and this is with me
doing disk cleanups and maintenance on a weekly basis, maintains around 50%
useage of that space. I personally would not go less than 8 gig for the C
partition...

Don Burnette

 

[John Barnett MVP]

Don i much prefer 20GB, especially if you have software such as Office 2003
installed, and even 20GB on my system is quickly filling up.

 

[Don Burnette]

Really? I have Office XP ( 2002) on my system, and 10 gb is more than
enough, as mentioned I typically run around 50% capacity on it, but I do
clean up and maintenance every week.

However, let me say, that I did move the " my documents" and all it's
subfolders ( including my music) to a different partition..., plus I keep
the bulk of my page file in it's own partition on a seperate physical hard
drive, so that is probably why. I only keep a small page file - 150 mb, on
the C partition. I also keep my OE stores folder on a seperate partition as
well...




Don Burnette

 

[Richard Urban]

I have "My Document" on drive D: I have my pagefile.sys on drive G: I have
a 20 gig partition C: for Windows with 12 gig free.

I have AutoCAD on drive D: but 90 meg still went to drive C: The C: drive
gets more and more loaded as you put more programs on the computer. It's the
nature of the beast. If you have 5 gig free out of a 10 gig partition you
really don't have much installed. (-:



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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[john]

thanks guys this has been an Educatation for me.