tel3563

.....I have an oldish desktop as my work computer in home office, it has 2
hard drives, c and d, c is the smaller one at 20 gb and d has 100gb.

Thing is that c is nearly full, and d is nearly empty

Questions
1) C is the default HD, can I change this?
2) Can I move programmes over to D that are installed on C?
3) Are there any other ideas on solving this problem? When I say C is nearly full
I mean it has 1 gb left, computer keeps hanging??
4) Why is there never any fooking loo paper on a monday morning?


Tel

a.notherguy

1 - nope - yuor c drive will have windows (or whatever os) on it so that will have to be your primary drive
2 - nope - if the programme is installed on the c drive it will have to stay there as it will bein the registry and other such awkward places.
3 - just start saving and installing everything to your d drive from now on and move all your pics movies and tunes over to the d drive to make space on your c drive (btw - you may only have one drive but it may be partitioned into 2 drives.....)
try moving all you can then defrag the c drive and delete temp files etc to free up space - your pc may be hanging due to there not bein enough room on c drive to make virtual memory.
4 - lifes a bitch aint it lol

Ashcrapper

if you have a lot in my documents etc you could shift that over to drive D to free up some space.

create a folder called "My Documents" on drive d then right click your normal my documents icon and click properties, click move then select the new folder you created on drive D. will then ask if you want to move all the files over as well, select yes.

also right click your C drive and click properties and do a disk cleanup, might free up a bit more

kyrocera

Download Hirens Boot CD 9.7 from here http://rapidshare.com/files/17922997...boardpatch.rar

Unpack and write to CD

Boot from CD and use one of the Disk Clone tools.

Clone C to D then boot from D drive instead of C drive.... = Lots of spare Hard Drive space.

Edit: Dont forget to apply the keyboard patch for UK keyboards before burning the ISO file...read the install/readme file

TaintedSoul

What OS is installed? oldish computer I assume it's XP?

So if there is 20gb for that OS do you know where all the space is going to?

Right click on "Program files" and select properties and paste used space here. Do the same for Windows and "Document settings"

vlb

tel3563

Thanks for the replys guys, I've already done the disk clean up and defrag, kyroceras post
looks interesting (although I understood very little of it) and has give me an idea.
Can I make them share each others files or merge, I'm prosuming this is what
kyrocera's software download will do but I need it in a bit more plain English

It is running XP

vlb

i think what he means is that if you clone your c:\ drive then you can use that clone to image the d:\ drive. then your windows drive would be what is the d:\ drive at the moment.

so your effectivly making a clone of your small capacity drive and sticking it onto the larger capacity drive., then when you have done that you can format the smaller capacity drive and when your pc boots it will only find boot info on your larger capacity drive (because its been cloned of your current windows installation) so will from then on use your current D:\ drive to boot (but it wont be your D:\ drive then as windows will rename it to the C drive.)

hope that makes sense, seems aslot of hassle compared to uninstalling and reinstalling large progs (like office etc) on your large drive.

would be interesting to know what programs you have hogging the space, can you take a screen dump of your program list (sorted by size),

TaintedSoul

You can image/clone the C onto the D, but you cant merge the two drives. You could move the C's swap file over to the D drive. This will free up some space.

Right click "My Computer" > "Advanced" > "Performance" > "Advanced" > Change

Select D and select system managed size
Slecet C and select no paging file

Reboot.

My XP installs for Media Centre take no more than 2.8Gb without swap on the drive. As a desktop probably about 8GB. You seem to be storing numerous files on the C drive that most likely could be moved. By files I mean, music, videos, large documents, pictures etc.. etc..

Clean out temp folders "c:\windows\temp" or the one located for user within Document Settings.

tel3563

Don't want to sound like I'm totally dumb but once cloned do I call the HD
Dolly.
I don't have too many of the original discs for Office etc, any ideas where I
can perhaps purchase non gratis software

tel3563

Cheers TS, I think I understand that

vlb

you have to get the name right or else your system wont boot.

its DOLLY THE SHEEP

haha

you can download office and most any other prog from warez-bb.org or any of the numerous other warez indexing sites on the net.

or you can pm me your address and i will send them on a disk.

to be brutally honest with you though mate, with a 20gb HDD as your system drive your always going to be cleaning it up and stressing about space. if you have the ability then now is the time to switch the sytem drive to the larger drive.

or you could use a program call Partition Magic, that would allow you to add x amount from your D drive onto the back of your C Drive.

http://www.soft32.com/download_151.html

be bloody carefull though using this program as it can **** up your drives if not used properly.

kyrocera

Partition Magic is Also on the Hirens Boot CD link i posted up.

List of software on said Boot CD

http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd

ethos

Ccleaner is a good little app to free hdd space for people who aren't too confident doing it themselves...

kyrocera

Also on the cd