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| Thread ID: 104558 | 2009-10-31 23:18:00 | Hard Drive issue | DeSade (984) | Press F1 |
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| 825966 | 2009-10-31 23:18:00 | Is it possible to map a network drive which is a physical hard drive within the same machine to a folder on C:/ Would this have the desired effect to allow things to be installed on the 2nd physical drive with the system still seeing it as C:/? With everything installing to C:/ on the current windows OS's space is becoming a issue again. Any other solutions to this other than a "bigger hard-drive" What can I safely move off my C:/ to recover space? Can anyone recommend or give me a link to a file that I can use to prepare the disks for installation of W7 I would like to format them all and remove a few partitions before installing. |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 825967 | 2009-10-31 23:34:00 | With NTFS I think you can do this. I'll look into it for you :) Edit: have a look at this: support.microsoft.com |
jwil1 (65) | ||
| 825968 | 2009-10-31 23:41:00 | Yes, it is, not sure if you can map it to C: though.. Using the SUBST command line tool www.ntwind.com You can move your page file, but don't do it manually. Go into My Computer>Properties>Advanced>Under performance select settings As for deleting/formatting partitions you can do that during the W7 installation stage. If you need to shrink/expand partitions as well, use Gparted Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 825969 | 2009-10-31 23:54:00 | I used GParted to repartition a 500gb drive yesterday and it took 9hours to do it. Looking for something a lot quicker than that. Also one of the drives I would like to format from Disk Management is a old XP install that is no longer used, any way to do this, the format option is grayed out. |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 825970 | 2009-11-01 00:17:00 | yes use gparted to format that drive | gary67 (56) | ||
| 825971 | 2009-11-01 00:52:00 | I used GParted to repartition a 500gb drive yesterday and it took 9hours to do it. Looking for something a lot quicker than that. Also one of the drives I would like to format from Disk Management is a old XP install that is no longer used, any way to do this, the format option is grayed out. Gparted, or a Vista boot CD. Partitioning does take a while, its not really gparted's fault... |
Blam (54) | ||
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