Allocation of memory on local drives

My hard drive (as most yours are, I'm sure) is partitioned off into two local drives; c: and d: I am beginning to have space issues on the c: drive (~15 gig) and have all this space available on the d: drive (~18 gig).

Windows Hardware 9627 This topic was started by dcamp67, 2005-01-30 00:40

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dcamp67

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2005-01-30 01:40

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jmmijo

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2005-01-30 02:11

Well may I suggest you don't and just add a second larger capacity HD as a single HD partition instead

HD's have gotten very cheap now and you can easily add a second drive as the SLAve drive after jumpering the original as the MASter drive.

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2005-01-30 02:25

Thanks for the suggestion. I think I forgot to mention that this is in a Sony Vaio FRV27 laptop. I wouldn't mind adding a new HD, but there physically isn't room for one.

jmmijo

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2005-01-30 02:43

Ah, that does make a difference then

Partition Magic allows you to resize and even merge adjacent partitions together however I don't recall if it could move data that already exists on one of the partitions and moves it over to the partition you've resized or not.

Basically you maybe in a position where it would be better to backup any important data first, then do a complete wipe of both partitions and reinstall the OS onto one partition rather then into two smaller ones like you currently have.

The other option to consider, especially for notebook/laptop owners is to purchase an external USB enclosure with the HD capacity you wish to have, for instance an 80~120GB models are pretty inexpensive for this particular use