Computer came with 6GB on local disk 'C'. I had 20GB
installed on local disk 'E'. 'C' is almost used up
and 'E' sits there unused.
How do I transfer 'programs' such as 'video' 'photoshop'
and 'animation' that use a lot of space to 'E' from 'C'?
Could all of 'C' e transfered to 'E' and made default?
Can 'C' and 'E' be combined.
If I get an external 160GB, how do I transfer all of 'C'
to ?
I would more than appreciate your solution or any advice
you would care to give.

Ed Henderson

On 11/17/2004 1:05:05 AM, "Ed Henderson" wrote:
>Computer came with 6GB on local disk 'C'. I had 20GB
>installed on local disk 'E'. 'C' is almost used up
>and 'E' sits there unused.
>How do I transfer 'programs' such as 'video' 'photoshop'
>and 'animation' that use a lot of space to 'E' from 'C'?
>Could all of 'C' e transfered to 'E' and made default?
>Can 'C' and 'E' be combined.
>If I get an external 160GB, how do I transfer all of 'C'
>to ?
>I would more than appreciate your solution or any advice
>you would care to give.
>
>Ed Henderson
>

Wrong forum, this is for tablet PC's, but without third party software,
you'll need to uninstall your apps and reinstall them.

Often simply moving the program directories will work when the shortcuts are
changed to the new location, since often all the support files are right
there in the path anyways and are located relative to the EXE location, not a
hard coded path. But that's now always the case. More complex programs have
many registry entries that can cause some issues with specific functionality
within a program so while the program launches and appears to work when
started after a move, particular features still won't.

Bottom line, you're always best off uninstalling programs and reinstalling
them where you want them.

As far as combining, yes, there are third party partition utilities that will
do that.

As far as external drives, depending on the system you likely wouldn't be
albe to move all of "c" to it since C is the boot partition. Depending on
your system's ability to boot from an external drive, you could always
reinstall to that external drive then transfer data files to it.

You have about as many options when dealing iwth partitions as there are
opinions in the world. If you want to do it, there's usually a way to achieve
it. It just takes work and some reinstalling.


--
John

Ed Henderson wrote:
> Computer came with 6GB on local disk 'C'. I had 20GB
> installed on local disk 'E'. 'C' is almost used up
> and 'E' sits there unused.

You can try resizing the partitions with for example PartitionMagic or
Partition Resizer v1.3.4

Whatever tool you use, you should make a backup of the entire HD first -
this means _all_ partitions...

Partition Resizer and a load of other very useful tools are on this
bootable CD: http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/

> How do I transfer 'programs' such as 'video' 'photoshop'
> and 'animation' that use a lot of space to 'E' from 'C'?
> Could all of 'C' e transfered to 'E' and made default?
> Can 'C' and 'E' be combined.

You shouldn't really 'move' the programs, as John already pointed out.
Photoshop >5.0, for one, won't work after moving from one drive to the
other, except if you do the "moving" by uninstalling and reinstalling.

Anyway. You can first use e.g. Partition Resizer to shrink E and enlarge
C sufficiently. Reboot to XP then copy all non-application files from E
to C.
If you didn't have any apps on E, you can (after checking there's no XP
swap file on E), proceed to reboot to Partition Resizer again, delete
the partition of drive E, and add the now free space to C. That way you
end up with only one large partition C. (D is probably your cdrom? no
linux installed?)

If you buy a copy of PartitionMagic you can (AFAIK) do the partition
resizing from within XP and don't need to reboot. Other partitioning
tools can probably do the same.

In addition, if you have some set of Recovery CD's for you tablet pc,
there's a chance that there are some "unnecessary" of image files of
these CDs on your HD. Just check the hidden folders in root C:\ or E:\,
for a bunch of files all >500MB. For example in E:\IMAGES\ or C:\IMAGES\
if these exist. Deleting the files might free up 1GB or more.

cheers,
- Jan

"Jan Wagner" <no_spam@thanks.net> wrote in message
news:cnlfgn$e4g$1@nyytiset.pp.htv.fi...
> Ed Henderson wrote:
>
> You can try resizing the partitions with for example PartitionMagic or
> Partition Resizer v1.3.4
>

Partition Resizer is not intended for NTFS drives, so if the poster is using
an NTFS formatted volume, Partition Resizer will not work. BootitNG would
be an better option. http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/

Jim Pickering