Partitioned hard drive with 14.1GB in c drive. XP plus service packs & upgrades have depleted memory is there a remedy short of erasing hard drive and reconfiguring it? I have 90+ GB free on f drive (c drive 0 free)
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September 22nd, 2010 11:17pm

A partitioning utility can reconfigure the partitions in place, eg Partition Magic / Acronis Disk Director to name a couple
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September 23rd, 2010 7:46pm

You should delete your phone numbers. Nobody is going to call you with a response to your question, but you may now get unwanted calls.There are a few methods for temporarily gaining a little space on your C: partition, but in general, the solution is to get a larger hard drive. If F: is a partition on the same physical hard drive as C:, you can get 3rd-party partition management software and merge C: and F: (Windows can't do this natively).BootItNG (free 30-day trial): http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-bootit-next-generation.htmAcronis Disk Director 11 Home (trial: no time limit, but only works on volumes of 100 GB or less):http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/Partition Magic used to be a good partition manager, but Symantec bought it and then decided not to sell product. Old trial versions are still available for download from various shareware/freeware sites.If C: is on its own physical drive (or at least not on the same physical drive as F:), then buy a larger drive and clone your existing C: partition into the full capacity of the new drive. Many new hard drives come with free software to enable this cloning operation (or make the s/w available for free from the drive mfr's website).Some things to delete on C:1. Run Disk Cleanup (Start > Run > Cleanmgr > OK). You can get more thorough disk cleanup tools, but if you do so, DO NOT use any "registry cleaner" feature. http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner http://www.atribune.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=252. Configure System Restore to use less space. The default is 12% of the partition, so on a 14GB C: partition, SR will take up about 1.68 GB. You can safely reduce this to just under 1 GB.3. Disable hibernation if it's enabled.4. Remove the $NTUninstallKBxxxxxx folders. These folders are used to enable uninstallation of the various Windows updates and hotfixes you've installed. If your system is stable, you can delete them. The usual advice is to burn them to a CD so that you'll have them in the unlikely event that someday you'll want to uninstall something. See the following article for more detailed advice:http://windowsxp.mvps.org/hotfix_backup.htm5. Uninstall any applications installed in the C: partition that you don't need any more.6. Check for leftover application data in the various "Application Settings" folders (these are hidden by default, so configure search to look for hidden files and folders)None of the above is going to net you very much space. You'll have to bite the bullet and get a bigger drive.
September 23rd, 2010 8:15pm

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