I'm a plonker & need help

[mike waring]

I have recently tried to upgrade my computer. I added a
new hard drive 80gb. on the set up I partitioned the drive
at 2000mb. I believed this would be the amount left after
I had installed XP & my programmes. It was partitioned in
ntf. after I installed XP there is not enough hard drive
left to do anything with it. I have my original hard drive
of 20gb that I have all my programmes on. is there any way
I can remove the partition or use the other amount of the
disc to install my programmes to? Even if I lose the
2000mb I have partitioned. If anyone can help it would be
most appreciated.

Mike Waring

[Jim Macklin]

2 GB (2000 MB) is pretty small by today's standards, but you
can get XP in a minimal installation. The remaining 73 GB
of space can be formatted and you can direct applications
and data to that partition.

But in order to defrag or do maintenance there must be some
amount of free space on each partition. Since you have just
started the easiest thing to do is to reinstall on the new
drive, selecting the option to reformat and partition before
installing clean.
I would suggest that you use your two drives in a manner to
maximize data security and speed.
Make your 80 GB drive master on the primary and your old
drive as slave on primary.
Partition as follows, 10-15 GB as C:\ for OS and for growth
because some programs will insist on having space on C:\
(put a small pagefile here maybe 50-100 MB, the rest on the
other physical drive)
Make partitions for applications and another for data,
perhaps 15 GB each. The remaining space could be about 35+
GB for video or what ever.
On the 20 GB drive, put several partitions and put your swap
(pagefile) on that drive (the biggest portion).
Use this drive to back-up your data daily, before you burn
any CD-R or DVDs.


"mike waring" > wrote in message
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| I have recently tried to upgrade my computer. I added a
| new hard drive 80gb. on the set up I partitioned the drive
| at 2000mb. I believed this would be the amount left after
| I had installed XP & my programmes. It was partitioned in
| ntf. after I installed XP there is not enough hard drive
| left to do anything with it. I have my original hard drive
| of 20gb that I have all my programmes on. is there any way
| I can remove the partition or use the other amount of the
| disc to install my programmes to? Even if I lose the
| 2000mb I have partitioned. If anyone can help it would be
| most appreciated.
|
| Mike Waring