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Allocation of memory on local drives

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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). How do I go about reallocating some of that space on the c: to the d:?

 

XP SP2

 

TIA

 

David

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

 

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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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.

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Ah, that does make a difference then wink

 

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 laugh

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