Running out of disk space

[Guest]

My XP Media Eition PC from Sony is running out of space on the 13 Gig drive
where windows is installed. Unfortunately, in addition to the Windows file
system folders, several big applications including Office were located there.
I am now completely running out of disk space, and have removed everything
that I can. I continure to run out of disk space.

Is there a 'best' way to move Office, or other Windows apps to a 300 Gig
available drive? Do I deinstall/reintall? How do I save all of the
customizations that I have done to Office? Is there a best way to approach a
windows drive that is too small?

Pointers to online resources or advice would be appreciated.

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

You uninstall and then reinstall... using the Custom Installation option.
Obviously Common File and the Registry Entries will still have to go into
the C: drive....but the majority will go on the other drive (whatever it's
called!)

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

My XP Media Eition PC from Sony is running out of space on the 13 Gig drive
where windows is installed. Unfortunately, in addition to the Windows file
system folders, several big applications including Office were located there.
I am now completely running out of disk space, and have removed everything
that I can. I continure to run out of disk space.

Is there a 'best' way to move Office, or other Windows apps to a 300 Gig
available drive? Do I deinstall/reintall? How do I save all of the
customizations that I have done to Office? Is there a best way to approach a
windows drive that is too small?

Pointers to online resources or advice would be appreciated.

A more permanent solution would be to swap your disks around
like so:
1. Create a 30 GByte primary partition on your 300 GByte drive.
2. Mark it as "active".
3. Using a product such as Acronis or Ghost, copy the existing
system partition to tye 30 GByte partition.
4. Disconnect the old disk.
5. Make the new disk the primary master.
6. Reboot. WinXP should now run as before, with much more room
to move.

If you're reluctant to spend the money on an imaging product
but have another WinXP/2000 PC available then you could
use it for the imaging step. It's much harder and requires much
more knowledge but it works.

 

[Uncle John]

Dr Owen

If the 00 Gig available drive is empty or you can make a large empty
partition on it an alternative would be to buy CasperXP. Make sure there is
no pagefile or other system link on the 300 Gig
available drive and then drive copy the old disk to the 300 gig disk or
vacant partition.
When rebooting the computer change the boot priority to make the 300 Gig
drive first and it should boot into Windows. When you are happy clean up the
13 Gig drive and use it as a scratch drive for the pagefile and Temporary
Internet Files