C drive running out of space

Iam sorry Nonny,

I wanted to say that Drive D has 60 GB free space.

Thanks,

Pradeep

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:40:00 -0700, Pradeep
<Pradeep.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Iam sorry Nonny,
>
>I wanted to say that Drive D has 60 GB free space.

You have your programs installed on D, so deleting it would cause you
huge problems... right?

You need to shrink D and give the open space to C. You will need a
third-party partition manager to do that. If you think you'll never
need such a thing again, you will need one that you can use on a trial
basis that comes with no limitations.

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-bootit-next-generation.htm

It USED to come with no limitations. I used the registered version
looooooong ago. Check it out.

Use a third party application, eg Partition Magic to combine what was D to
C, thereby removing the D partition.
Your drive is too small to bother about partitioning

"Pradeep" <Pradeep.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9F688EA7-7CF4-4A37-BFEA-33A6E219CB6D@microsoft.com...
> Iam sorry Nonny,
>
> I wanted to say that Drive D has 60 GB free space.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pradeep
>

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:21:25 +0100, "DL" <address@invalid> wrote:

> Use a third party application, eg Partition Magic to combine what was D to
> C, thereby removing the D partition.


If he simply does that, all his programs, which are installed on D:
will fail to work, because they will be on C: and Windows expects to
find them on D:

He would also have to either try one of the programs that search out
and try to change all those many references from D: to C:, or else
uninstall, then reinstall the programs.

My experience with programs that look for and change the references
has been less than satisfactory, and I don't recommend them. The best
way to do this is to uninstall and reinstall.

His easiest course of action at this point, by far, would be to use a
third-party program to make D: smaller and C: bigger. However, before
using such a program and taking such a big step--either your way or
mine--he should first be sure he has a current backup of anything he
can't afford to lose. Although there's no reason to expect a problem,
things *can* go wrong.

By the way, Pradeep should note that programs should normally be
installed on the same partition as \Windows. Although some people
install them on a different partition because they think that they are
protected there, and won't be lost if Windows ever has to be
reinstalled, this is *not* correct. If Windows is reinstalled, all the
many references to the program within it are lost. The programs (all
except for an occasional small one) have to be reinstalled too.

You can read my advice on partitioning in the article "Understanding
Disk Partitioning" at
http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=326


> Your drive is too small to bother about partitioning
>
> "Pradeep" <Pradeep DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9F688EA7-7CF4-4A37-BFEA-33A6E219CB6D@microsoft.com...
> > Iam sorry Nonny,
> >
> > I wanted to say that Drive D has 60 GB free space.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Pradeep
> >
>

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kept trying to play a bad video file and without realizing it I had 1/2
dozen copies of VLC Media Player running.

If you must use swap, move it to D:


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