Partition problems

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Bill Welsh

When I installed xp pro onto a new 40Gb hard drive it
created a 3Gb drive "C" and a 37Gb drive "d" .. due to
something it called dos limit !

As xp has taken up nearly all the 3Gb can someone tell me
if its possible to increase the size of drive "c" by
moving some of the space from drive "d"
 
Bill said:
When I installed xp pro onto a new 40Gb hard drive it
created a 3Gb drive "C" and a 37Gb drive "d" .. due to
something it called dos limit !

As xp has taken up nearly all the 3Gb can someone tell me
if its possible to increase the size of drive "c" by
moving some of the space from drive "d"
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Without losing data, you will need to use third party partitioning software.
Using XP only, you will need to start over with a clean install.
See the step by step in the link below. You will need to delete the current
partitions and if you want one partition only, let XP create and format the
entire space for XP to install on.
BTW, XP will not on it's own set a 3 gig partition and then another
partition without you telling it to. Unless you are going to dual boot, let
XP install using the NTFS file system. If for some reason you need to use
fat32, you can use a Win98/Me startup disk. Also a 40 gig hard drive will
actually show as about 37 gig.

You boot from the CD and do a clean install.
Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address bar.
How to clean install XP.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
Format XP
http://michaelstevenstech.com/format_XP.htm
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A fairly non-technical way to do this is to
1) Uninstall several programs from the default C:\Program
Files\ and then reinstall to D:\Program Files\.
2) You can tell Windows to put the page file on the D:
drive.
3) Empty all your Internet history and Temporary Internet
Files and set IE to empty Temp Int Files automatically
when you exit IE.
4) Empty all your Windows temp files that accumulate from
installations.
I usually do the last one the geeky manual way but there's
a handy Disk Cleanup wizard you can use.
If these 3 things don't clear a Gig of C: hard drive, I'll
be surprised.
 
Jeffo / Michael

Thanks for all the help ... up & running with plenty of
space now.

With Thank
 
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