windows update XP

[tim]

Can anyone help. i have the NTFS file system on my HD,
and its created 2 drives, one big one, and a tiny 7mb C;
drive. When i try to run windoes update, it says that
theres is insufficient room on the c: drive to run it,
how can i get round this?

 

[rich]

-----Original Message-----
Can anyone help. i have the NTFS file system on my HD,
and its created 2 drives, one big one, and a tiny 7mb C;
drive. When i try to run windoes update, it says that
theres is insufficient room on the c: drive to run it,
how can i get round this?
.
you have made a bad choice during install and you need

to backup your data and wipe the partitions and make one
partition and yes xp will always leave 8mb of space left
over do not create an 8mb partition as you choose to do
before ,leave it as unpartitioned space.

 

[Ken Blake]

Can anyone help. i have the NTFS file system on my HD,
and its created 2 drives, one big one, and a tiny 7mb C;
drive. When i try to run windoes update, it says that
theres is insufficient room on the c: drive to run it,
how can i get round this?

I assume you mean 7GB, not 7MB. Windows won't install on 7MB.

Note that "it" didn't create this structure. Whoever installed
Windows on your computer did.

No version of Windows has ever had the capability of changing the
partition structure of a drive non-destructively. To do so
requires a third-party program. Partition Magic is the best-known
such program, but there are shareware/freeware alternatives. One
that has gotten good reports (although I haven't personally used
it) is Bootit Next Generation.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Can anyone help. i have the NTFS file system on my HD,
and its created 2 drives, one big one, and a tiny 7mb C;
drive. When i try to run windoes update, it says that
theres is insufficient room on the c: drive to run it,
how can i get round this?

How it achieved that I don't know, but you will need to get one of the
third party partition managers, PArtition Magic, or I use BootIT NG,
from http://www.BootitNG.com ($35 shareware - 30 day full functional
trial)

Use it to shrink the big drive just a bit and increase the C into the
space - 100MB would be plenty. One or two things - of which Update is
one - *insist* on having about 50MB of work space in C: