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I have a 120 GB drive with two partitions; C is 14 GB and has 155 mb left
according to disk management. D is the rest of the Hard drive and has 80 GB
left free. Sony Vaio media computer, running XP Home SP3 on a P4 at 2.66mhz
(prob TMI).
Anyway, a while back I moved all photos, etc to the D drive to save space on
C drive. But, things keep "growing" (sorta like having rabbits I guess) and
now the C drive is very full and methinks I should run defrag and all that,
but it won't run due to insufficient space.
I have gone through windows explorer to see if there are any other files to
move, but don't find any data files I haven't already moved. I run Quicken,
and assume that data is on the C drive and it may be big, but no other stuff
jumps out. Simple HP printer files, M/S updates and patches seem pretty big,
but once installed can they be blown away? and that is about it.
So, I "guess" I need to enlarge the C drive? If so, what is the recommended
way?
In reading these posts I see that there are a few opinions, but I'm
assuming I need to get partition magic or backup both drives (image copy? on
a new HD (pretty cheap)) and reinstall from the Sony disks and when doing
so...make the C drive 20 or 25 GB.
What say ye experts?
Thanks for the advice.......novice techie
according to disk management. D is the rest of the Hard drive and has 80 GB
left free. Sony Vaio media computer, running XP Home SP3 on a P4 at 2.66mhz
(prob TMI).
Anyway, a while back I moved all photos, etc to the D drive to save space on
C drive. But, things keep "growing" (sorta like having rabbits I guess) and
now the C drive is very full and methinks I should run defrag and all that,
but it won't run due to insufficient space.
I have gone through windows explorer to see if there are any other files to
move, but don't find any data files I haven't already moved. I run Quicken,
and assume that data is on the C drive and it may be big, but no other stuff
jumps out. Simple HP printer files, M/S updates and patches seem pretty big,
but once installed can they be blown away? and that is about it.
So, I "guess" I need to enlarge the C drive? If so, what is the recommended
way?
In reading these posts I see that there are a few opinions, but I'm
assuming I need to get partition magic or backup both drives (image copy? on
a new HD (pretty cheap)) and reinstall from the Sony disks and when doing
so...make the C drive 20 or 25 GB.
What say ye experts?
Thanks for the advice.......novice techie