partitioned drive

my pc is partioned into 2 drives C: & E:.
XP is on C: and contains the boot. it is 5GB and nearly full which is
slowing my PC down.
E: is 35GB and is empty, formatted and healthy.
How can i activate it so i can either transfer some data over, or so it
becomes just one hard drive again?
Any help would be greatly appreciated

The only way you can create, delete, resize or merge existinÂ*g partitions,
and not harm your existing Windows installation, is to purchÂ*ase and use
a third-party partitioning program such as Partition Magic 8Â*.
http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/

The alternative is to perform a "clean install" of Windows XÂ*P:

How to Partition and Format a Hard Disk in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp

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"Steve Healey" wrote:

| my pc is partioned into 2 drives C: & E:.
| XP is on C: and contains the boot. it is 5GB and nearly full which is
| slowing my PC down.
| E: is 35GB and is empty, formatted and healthy.
| How can i activate it so i can either transfer some data over, or so it
| becomes just one hard drive again?
| Any help would be greatly appreciated

Steve

Try Disk CleanUp to remove Temporary Internet Files and the System
Restore option in the More Option tab of Disk CleanUp.

You may be able to relocate folders / files to the second drive.

To move programmes use Add / Remove Programs in Start, Control Panel,
Add / Remove Programs to uninstall programmes. Create a Programs
Directory on your D drive and reinstall there.

Some other notes you may find useful.
Create a My Documents folder in another partition and copy ( not move )
the contents of My Documents to your new folder. Then delete the files
in your My Documents folder ( if you encounter problems deleting use
Shift + Delete to bypass the Recycle Bin ). You will also need to
change Default File locations in the Microsoft Office programmes you
use. For Word go to Tools, Options, File Locations, highlight Documents,
click on Modify and change file path. For Excel go to Tools, Options,
General and change default file path.

For Temporary Internet Files select Start, Control Panel, Internet
Options, Temporary Internet Files. Settings, Move Folder.

To move the Outlook Express Store Folder select in Outlook Express
Tools, Options, Maintenance, Store Folder, Change.

http://www.tomsterdam.com/insideoe/files/store.htm

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"Steve Healey" wrote in message
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my pc is partioned into 2 drives C: & E:.
XP is on C: and contains the boot. it is 5GB and nearly full which is
slowing my PC down.
E: is 35GB and is empty, formatted and healthy.
How can i activate it so i can either transfer some data over, or so
it
becomes just one hard drive again?
Any help would be greatly appreciated

In ,
Steve Healey typed:

my pc is partioned into 2 drives C: & E:.
XP is on C: and contains the boot. it is 5GB and nearly full
which is
slowing my PC down.


Being nearly full may be a problem, but it is *not* slowing your
computer down. How full the drive is has no effect on speed.


E: is 35GB and is empty, formatted and healthy.
How can i activate it


There's nothing to activate.


so i can either transfer some data over,


If you want to transfer data over just do it. You can move files
between C: and E: just like you can between the hard drive and
the diskette drive or the hard drive and the CD drive.


or so
it becomes just one hard drive again?

Unfortunately, no version of Windows provides any way of changing
the partition structure of the drive nondestructively. The only
way to do what you want is with third-party software. Partition
Magic is the best-known such program, but there are
freeware/shareware alternatives. One such program is BootIt Next
Generation. It's shareware, but comes with a free 30-day trial,
so you should be able to do what you want within that 30 days. I
haven't used it myself, but it comes highly recommended by
several other MVPs here.


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