hard drive space

[Larry Scott]

Is there a way to get more of my computers hard drive
space allocated to my user account? My kids accounts do
not need as much space as I do. Can I transfer some of
there allocated space to my account?

[Quinoa S]

Not sure what you're getting at. XP does not allocate a fixed amount of disk
space to each user account. User accounts occupy as much space as they need.

Quinoa S

"Larry Scott" > wrote in message
...
> Is there a way to get more of my computers hard drive
> space allocated to my user account? My kids accounts do
> not need as much space as I do. Can I transfer some of
> there allocated space to my account?

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

Disk space quotas are assigned in the volume properties. Right-click on
your drive, click the quota tab, enable quotas and then assign quota
rules and exceptions.

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows



"Larry Scott" > wrote in
message ...

> Is there a way to get more of my computers hard drive
> space allocated to my user account? My kids accounts do
> not need as much space as I do. Can I transfer some of
> there allocated space to my account?

[Quinoa S]

Thank you for clearing that up.

Quinoa S

"Kent W. England [MVP]" > wrote in message
...
> Disk space quotas are assigned in the volume properties. Right-click on
> your drive, click the quota tab, enable quotas and then assign quota
> rules and exceptions.
>
> --
> Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows
>
>
>
> "Larry Scott" > wrote in
> message ...
>
> > Is there a way to get more of my computers hard drive
> > space allocated to my user account? My kids accounts do
> > not need as much space as I do. Can I transfer some of
> > there allocated space to my account?
>

[Larry Scott]

Thanks for your reply. I have a 120gb hard drive. My
drive C was showed a total size of 14.9gb and I thought
that was the quota allocated to my account. I have now
discovered there is a drive E shown with 99.5gb size.
Could this be two separate hard drives on my Sony Vaio?
Where would the other 5+gb be? My intention is to do
some video editing which will require a lot of hard drive
space. Prior to discovering drive E, I did as you said
and the same amount of space showed on the C drive so I
assume the account quota is not the problem.
>-----Original Message-----
>Disk space quotas are assigned in the volume properties.
Right-click on
>your drive, click the quota tab, enable quotas and then
assign quota
>rules and exceptions.
>
>--
>Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows
>
>
>
>"Larry Scott" > wrote in
>message ...
>
>> Is there a way to get more of my computers hard drive
>> space allocated to my user account? My kids accounts
do
>> not need as much space as I do. Can I transfer some of
>> there allocated space to my account?
>
>.
>

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

The other five gig could be rounding errors (some figures list megabytes
per 1000 and some figure binary megabytes per 1024) or there could be a
hidden partition that Sony uses for diagnostics or maintenance. I don't
know about Sony, but Dell uses hidden partitions.

Don't use disk quotas. Tell your kids to keep their stuff off your drive
E: or you'll erase it, or you can set permissions on drive E: so that
the kids can't write to it. This assumes they have limited accounts and
E: is NTFS.

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows


"Larry Scott" > wrote in
message ...

> Thanks for your reply. I have a 120gb hard drive. My
> drive C was showed a total size of 14.9gb and I thought
> that was the quota allocated to my account. I have now
> discovered there is a drive E shown with 99.5gb size.
> Could this be two separate hard drives on my Sony Vaio?
> Where would the other 5+gb be? My intention is to do
> some video editing which will require a lot of hard drive
> space. Prior to discovering drive E, I did as you said
> and the same amount of space showed on the C drive so I
> assume the account quota is not the problem.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Disk space quotas are assigned in the volume properties.
> Right-click on
> >your drive, click the quota tab, enable quotas and then
> assign quota
> >rules and exceptions.
> >
> >--
> >Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows
> >
> >"Larry Scott" > wrote in
> >message ...
> >
> >> Is there a way to get more of my computers hard drive
> >> space allocated to my user account? My kids accounts
> do
> >> not need as much space as I do. Can I transfer some of
> >> there allocated space to my account?