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Silverberg
10-03-2005, 02:04 AM
On our computer we've got very little space on the C drive, and as we have Windows XP home we have seperate drives for the diferrent users, and I was wondering how I could move some space from my drive into drive C.
Windows help sucks balls. Thanks.
Fenix Blade
10-03-2005, 02:11 AM
Example:
Drive C = General
Drive D = Silverberg
Drive E = Siblings
Drive F = Music

Something like that? And you want some stuff from drive d to drive c?
Open up my computer, then find the file you want to move in your drive. Right click and select cut. Now go to drive c, maybe make a new folder (right click > new > folder) then right click that folder and select paste.

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I just had an idea. Do you mean you have different user ID's - i.e. you log on as XXXX and your siblings/folks/mates use YYYY and someone else uses ZZZZ? If so, do the above steps but go to drive c > documents and settings. Find what you need, right click > cut, back to documents and settings, select the user you want it moving to then paste?

Mix and match depending on what you mean and what you want to do :thumb:
Silverberg
10-03-2005, 04:18 AM
No sorry it's not that simple It's moving space allocated to one drive/user to the main drive so that the computer actually runs at a decent speed...
MrG
10-03-2005, 04:35 AM
computer running at decent speed doesnt require masses of free hard disc space
Mist
10-03-2005, 07:34 AM
No sorry it's not that simple It's moving space allocated to one drive/user to the main drive so that the computer actually runs at a decent speed...

Are they different physical drives? If not, it wont improve the speed to move things to different drive letters.
Bomberman444
10-03-2005, 08:30 AM
if you mean you have just partitioned the drives then partition magic can do the job.
Fenix Blade
10-03-2005, 09:43 AM
Right, I see what you're getting at now. As Bomberman said, is it partitioned?

As for speeding up a PC - assuming we're not talking partitions - RAM is what you may need. How much do you have already? As you're on XP, download FRO (Free Ram Optimiser). Another idea could be to purchase a new HDD.
Silverberg
10-03-2005, 01:30 PM
No they're not different physical drives when we first got the computer we simply created the number of drives we wanted and allocated the amount of space to each one, but a lot of things automatically go to the C drive and it's just about full now. However on the other drives they're mostly free.
And yeah I know increasing space won't make the computer run faster I was being a bit redundant there.
Mist
10-03-2005, 06:18 PM
No they're not different physical drives when we first got the computer we simply created the number of drives we wanted and allocated the amount of space to each one, but a lot of things automatically go to the C drive and it's just about full now. However on the other drives they're mostly free.
And yeah I know increasing space won't make the computer run faster I was being a bit redundant there.


Oh I see. Not many options really. You could uninstall large applications and reinstall them on a different drive, but nothing is going to deal with doing that automatically. If you just copy and past then data would be fine but most programs would complain because of registy settings and such.

Now might be a decent time to reinstall windows :)
Bomberman444
10-03-2005, 07:22 PM
I will point out again you are using partitions if you have one physical drive and you have split it. Partition Magic will allow you to resize them so you can make C bigger and the others smaller.
Kazbo
10-03-2005, 08:05 PM
:yes: as Bomberman says partition magic should do the job nicely for you.
Silverberg
15-03-2005, 03:34 AM
:yes: as Bomberman says partition magic should do the job nicely for you.
Right...partition magic, where can I get that then?
Bomberman444
15-03-2005, 08:51 AM
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=partition+magic&meta=


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