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Burylad
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 Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:58 pm Post subject: Increase Drive Size |
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I want to increase the size of a drive. My PC has three drives -
1. Local Disk (C), 2. BACKUP (D), and 3. RECOVER (E). The capacity of Drive C is 37.2 GB and it only has 3.73 GB of free space left. Drive D has a capacity of 33.3 GB and only 377 MB has been used.
Is it possible to reduce the size of Drive D and assign all that spare capacity (33 GB) to Drive C?
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Mister2
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| Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Burylad,
It would be difficult (and risky) to increase the size of your C: drive without something like Partition Magic .
A quick, easy and free fix would be to move your 'My Documents' folder to the D: drive. This should free up a fair amount of space on the C: drive, and any documents created in the future would be automatically directed to the D: drive. There are instructions here showing how to do this.
You could also move your swap file to the D: drive, as explained here .
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Burylad
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| Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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I am wondering if a lot of the C Drive has been used up because when I reinstalled Windows sometime ago and it seems to have saved the old user profiles and created new ones. My old one is in Drive C as C:\Documents and Settings\Mark and the more recent one that was created is C:\Documents and Settings\Mark.HOME.DIPBA2FLHO. Would it be possible to merge these?
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Mister2
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Good idea.
First move your current My Documents folder to your E: drive as outlined in that article.
Then Copy the green text in the box below: | Code: | echo off
xcopy "C:\Documents and Settings\Mark.HOME.DIPBA2FLHO\My Documents" "E:\Documents and Settings\Mark\My Documents" /d /s /r /k /o /y
echo File copy finished
echo off
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Now open Notepad, maximise the window and paste into a new document. Make sure the first line doesn't get split halfway through - it should start 'xcopy' and finish '/y'. Go to File, Save, set the Save As Type to All Files, name the document copydoc.bat and save to your Desktop.
Close all application windows and double click copydoc.bat. This will copy any newer versions of files from your old My Documents folder to the current one, and also any that do not exist in your current My Documents folder. It may take a few minutes depending on how many files get transferred - the message "File copy finished" will appear when done.
Finally delete the My Documents folder in C:\Documents and Settings\Mark.HOME.DIPBA2FLHO, delete the file copydoc.bat from your Desktop and you're done.
I would be inclined to run a defrag (Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools) when you have done as there will have been a lot of file handling going on.
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