Bob Harris
December 9th 03, 01:52 PM
Instead of manually moving files and playing with the
registry, you look into a third party partition manager to
move some of the space on D:\ into C:\. I have done this
sort of thing with Partition Magic version 8, under XP
(home). My disks were FAT32, but it is supposed to handle
NTFS. Note that unlike FDISK, Partition Magic does not
erase data. Rather, it carefully moves it and adjusts the
directories (FAT or NTFS) to point to the right location.
Alternatives include Acronis Partition Expert, Paragon
Partition Manager, etc. Do a web seach on "partition
manager" or "partition resize" for more possibilities.
>-----Original Message-----
>I have a laptop with a single physical hard drive, broken
>into C: (4 GB/1.1 free) and D: (13 GB, 12.5 free). The
>machine was originally built with Win2KPro, but a bad SP4
>installation took care of that. I upgraded to XPPro and
>am generally satisfied, except for the extra disk space
>that XPPro requires. I have been installing programs
>into "D:\Program Files" as much as possible to conserve
>disk space on C:, but I think I'm just delaying the
>inevitable. Both logical drives are Basic NTFS
>partitions. What I would like to do is to merge D: into
>C: but not lose anything stored on either drive. There
>is still enough room on C: to move everything from D:
>onto it in order to make a change, but there's a lot of
>registry entries pointing to D:.
>
>Could anyone offer some good advice, and possibly any
>hints on registry editing that could automate (fully or
>partially) any references to D: to expedite a change.
>Thanks!
>
>.
>
registry, you look into a third party partition manager to
move some of the space on D:\ into C:\. I have done this
sort of thing with Partition Magic version 8, under XP
(home). My disks were FAT32, but it is supposed to handle
NTFS. Note that unlike FDISK, Partition Magic does not
erase data. Rather, it carefully moves it and adjusts the
directories (FAT or NTFS) to point to the right location.
Alternatives include Acronis Partition Expert, Paragon
Partition Manager, etc. Do a web seach on "partition
manager" or "partition resize" for more possibilities.
>-----Original Message-----
>I have a laptop with a single physical hard drive, broken
>into C: (4 GB/1.1 free) and D: (13 GB, 12.5 free). The
>machine was originally built with Win2KPro, but a bad SP4
>installation took care of that. I upgraded to XPPro and
>am generally satisfied, except for the extra disk space
>that XPPro requires. I have been installing programs
>into "D:\Program Files" as much as possible to conserve
>disk space on C:, but I think I'm just delaying the
>inevitable. Both logical drives are Basic NTFS
>partitions. What I would like to do is to merge D: into
>C: but not lose anything stored on either drive. There
>is still enough room on C: to move everything from D:
>onto it in order to make a change, but there's a lot of
>registry entries pointing to D:.
>
>Could anyone offer some good advice, and possibly any
>hints on registry editing that could automate (fully or
>partially) any references to D: to expedite a change.
>Thanks!
>
>.
>