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| Thread ID: 51278 | 2004-11-16 07:55:00 | Transferring Folders/Files. | Poppa John (284) | Press F1 |
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| 292872 | 2004-11-16 08:40:00 | You can move all the photos with no problems. When you open Photoshare, just point it to the new folder - or reinstall it to your other partition. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 292873 | 2004-11-16 08:41:00 | Whoops - easyshare. | Peter H (220) | ||
| 292874 | 2004-11-16 08:41:00 | You can move photos / word documents / any documents to f. BUT not anything under c: / Program files, or any system files ( or any folder related to XP itself actually, or what XP needs to load/boot). They MUST remain on C: |
Spacemannz (808) | ||
| 292875 | 2004-11-16 08:42:00 | Nearly 30 GB on each partition Murray (C & F) | Spacemannz (808) | ||
| 292876 | 2004-11-16 08:47:00 | O.K How about this:- The existing hdd is 60 gb. IF we replace this with 120 gb drive, then shifted all the data (XP Home and everything else ) from the 60 to the 120, would the partitions stay as 30gb or so something different? PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 292877 | 2004-11-16 08:53:00 | They would stay at 30 gb each the 60 gb, until u reformat it, BUT then if u copy whats on the 60 gb to the 120, you may have to do a repair thing (forgot what its called)! XP may get confused by u moving everything to a completely different hdd . It may even crash! Since, its a totally new hdd, XP will be booting from . Is the 60 and 120 IDE?? Or is one SATA?? If the mobo has SATA onboard, i would just connect the 120 GB to the connection, or if the 120 is IDE, add it as a slave, change the BIOS, so the BIOS will detect and XP . Then still load off the 60 GB . Then format the 120GB once XP has rebooted/booted . And you'll have whats left on F, and 120 GB spare for extra things?? Up to you I guess . |
Spacemannz (808) | ||
| 292878 | 2004-11-16 08:58:00 | On an earlier post I asked about deleting the partition but apparently this is not advisable either. PJ | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 292879 | 2004-11-16 09:01:00 | > Nearly 30 GB on each partition Murray (C & F) That's a heap of OS and programmes Popa, something is not right. For eg, my OS and programmes take up 7GB on my C and that includes NTuninstall files from windows upgrades and patches, admittedly It's win2k which isn't up to XP's bloat but, you must have heaps of unecessary stuff on there. Before you go out and buy a new hard drive, move the pictures off, and any other data you can think of (office type files, email backups, images, My Doc's, Backup files/images/ISO, anything user created). Consider deleting NTuninstall files plus SP2 install files, but only if your satified you will not want to remove the updates and patches later (there's a list of the safe ones to remove from XP on the MSKB site). Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 292880 | 2004-11-16 09:03:00 | Poppa John, What have you got in that C drive? I suggest that you have a look at "My Documents" and you should be able to shift everything in there to your "F" drive. I would suggest creating a "My Documents" in F and use Windows Explorer to shift everything into similarly named folders; I.E. my pics, my music, my writing etc. Then make a short cut to the new "My Documents" on the desktop called "My Docs F" and everytime you take a photo or some music or whatever save it to the appropriate folder in there. That way you know it is going into the drive which holds all your personal stuff. I know I had the same issues with XP which automatically sends your data to the C drive. I know some people have huge hard drives, which they use for all sorts of things but unless you are downloading movies or writing music the average person would find 30 Gig per drive adequate. You must have a lot of stuff saved in there for it to be getting full. Good luck, Rob |
theotherone (1421) | ||
| 292881 | 2004-11-16 09:04:00 | The only other thing u can do, is reinstall XP on the 120. Leave as 120, or partition the 120 GB hdd as well. And put the 60 GB hdd as a slave. Then format the 60 GB / partition it, or leave as 60GB. You should/would be able to delete f (on the 60GB hdd), if u had Partitionmagic or similar (but then you would have to copy whats on f to C, before deleting the F partition). Or else whatever it on F would go byebyes. Never to be seen again. |
Spacemannz (808) | ||
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