Overloaded drve C on a partitioned hard drive

[Jene]

How do I free up space so that I can use my cd drive. There s so much on my
c drive that it is making my sytem unstable. I have drives d e f g
available. This is a 10 gig hard drive that was formatted before I got it.
I just don't know what to do. Please help. Thank you

[philo]

"Jene" > wrote in message
...
> How do I free up space so that I can use my cd drive. There s so much on
> my
> c drive that it is making my sytem unstable. I have drives d e f g
> available. This is a 10 gig hard drive that was formatted before I got
> it.
> I just don't know what to do. Please help. Thank you

any dat you have on the drive may simply be moved to another

if you have apps installed...they need to be uninstalled...then reinstalled
on another drive

[Ron Martell]

"Jene" > wrote:

>How do I free up space so that I can use my cd drive. There s so much on my
>c drive that it is making my sytem unstable. I have drives d e f g
>available. This is a 10 gig hard drive that was formatted before I got it.
>I just don't know what to do. Please help. Thank you

You could uninstall and then reinstall at least some of your
application programs. When you do the reinstall change the location
so that they install onto one of the other drives.

Or you could use a partitioning utility such as Partition Magic from
Symantec. That will allow you to resize or delete the other drives
(or at least some of them) and add the freed up space to the C: drive.

A third option would be to simply wipe everything out on the drive,
including drive C:, and then start over. To do this you would boot
the computer with a Windows 98 startup disk and then use FDISK to
delete all of the existing partitions. Once you have done this you
can then, still with FDISK, create one new large partition using the
entire 10 gb capacity of the drive. Then format it and reinstall your
Windows and your application programs from the original CDs, restore
your data from backups, and you are back in business.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

[James]

If you have a copy of Partition Magic there is a Drive Mapper utility=20=

that allows you to map and move any application from one drive letter to=
=20
another. After the move it updates the registery so the new location=20=

will work. I have used this to move some applications that will only=20=

install on drive C. For my systems only the OS is on C all appliations =

are on drives D & E with all data located on other partitions or drives.=
=20
For Win98 C drive is typically less than 1G. I also have a partition fo=
r=20
the swap file as drive F set to fat 16. Very few lockups or freezes as =
a=20
result of the reduced activity on drive C.

James

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 10/19/04, 9:39:08 AM, "Jene" > wrote=20=

regarding Overloaded drve C on a partitioned hard drive:


> How do I free up space so that I can use my cd drive. There s so much=
on=20
my
> c drive that it is making my sytem unstable. I have drives d e f g
> available. This is a 10 gig hard drive that was formatted before I go=
t=20
it.
> I just don't know what to do. Please help. Thank you

[Ron Badour]

I hope you have a lot of ram. You have moved the swap file to a slower part
of the hard drive and increased the amount of travel that the heads must do
in order to read files (C:) and then do paging (F:). If you do have enough
ram so the swap file is not being used, then your only possible problem is
wasted space in creating the swap partition.

--
Regards

Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

<James> wrote in message ...
If you have a copy of Partition Magic there is a Drive Mapper utility
that allows you to map and move any application from one drive letter to
another. After the move it updates the registery so the new location
will work. I have used this to move some applications that will only
install on drive C. For my systems only the OS is on C all appliations
are on drives D & E with all data located on other partitions or drives.
For Win98 C drive is typically less than 1G. I also have a partition for
the swap file as drive F set to fat 16. Very few lockups or freezes as a
result of the reduced activity on drive C.

James

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 10/19/04, 9:39:08 AM, "Jene" > wrote
regarding Overloaded drve C on a partitioned hard drive:


> How do I free up space so that I can use my cd drive. There s so much on
my
> c drive that it is making my sytem unstable. I have drives d e f g
> available. This is a 10 gig hard drive that was formatted before I got
it.
> I just don't know what to do. Please help. Thank you

[James]

Theory is great but in practice I have experienced far fewer freezes,=20=

lockups, out of memory errors etc. since doing this. 95 & 98 both have =

performed better in practice, no games just business, on several dozen=20=

machines since I began doing this. I know performance was supposed to=20=

have gone down along with a number of other related potential problems=20=

but in practice things improved.

James

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 10/26/04, 12:09:33 PM, "Ron Badour" > wrote=20
regarding Re: Overloaded drve C on a partitioned hard drive:


> I hope you have a lot of ram. You have moved the swap file to a slowe=
r=20
part
> of the hard drive and increased the amount of travel that the heads mu=
st=20
do
> in order to read files (C:) and then do paging (F:). If you do have =

enough
> ram so the swap file is not being used, then your only possible proble=
m=20
is
> wasted space in creating the swap partition.

> --
> Regards

> Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
> Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
> Knowledge Base Info:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=3Dkbinfo

> <James> wrote in message ...
> If you have a copy of Partition Magic there is a Drive Mapper utility=

> that allows you to map and move any application from one drive letter =
to
> another. After the move it updates the registery so the new location=

> will work. I have used this to move some applications that will only=

> install on drive C. For my systems only the OS is on C all appliation=
s
> are on drives D & E with all data located on other partitions or drive=
s.
> For Win98 C drive is typically less than 1G. I also have a partition =
for
> the swap file as drive F set to fat 16. Very few lockups or freezes a=
s a
> result of the reduced activity on drive C.

> James

> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

> On 10/19/04, 9:39:08 AM, "Jene" > wrote=

> regarding Overloaded drve C on a partitioned hard drive:


> > How do I free up space so that I can use my cd drive. There s so mu=
ch on
> my
> > c drive that it is making my sytem unstable. I have drives d e f g=

> > available. This is a 10 gig hard drive that was formatted before I =
got
> it.
> > I just don't know what to do. Please help. Thank you

[Jene]

Thank you for the help. I ended up reformatting the hard drive and
reinstalling everything and it works great now.

"Ron Martell" wrote:

> "Jene" > wrote:
>
> >How do I free up space so that I can use my cd drive. There s so much on my
> >c drive that it is making my sytem unstable. I have drives d e f g
> >available. This is a 10 gig hard drive that was formatted before I got it.
> >I just don't know what to do. Please help. Thank you
>
> You could uninstall and then reinstall at least some of your
> application programs. When you do the reinstall change the location
> so that they install onto one of the other drives.
>
> Or you could use a partitioning utility such as Partition Magic from
> Symantec. That will allow you to resize or delete the other drives
> (or at least some of them) and add the freed up space to the C: drive.
>
> A third option would be to simply wipe everything out on the drive,
> including drive C:, and then start over. To do this you would boot
> the computer with a Windows 98 startup disk and then use FDISK to
> delete all of the existing partitions. Once you have done this you
> can then, still with FDISK, create one new large partition using the
> entire 10 gb capacity of the drive. Then format it and reinstall your
> Windows and your application programs from the original CDs, restore
> your data from backups, and you are back in business.
>
> Good luck
>
>
> Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
> --
> Microsoft MVP
> On-Line Help Computer Service
> http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
>
> "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."
>