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Well.....er....dont get angry with me buddy...i think that method not gonna work. Anyway, there is no need of reinstalling windows on d. That c is a 40gb partion. My whole hdd is 40gb! Its better just 2 move files.
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Posted: 2005-03-28 12:37:23
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Or you could get a copy of Norton Ghost and use it to clone your C drive over to your larger D drive. Then you, boot the PC with your D drive disconnected and delete the boot.ini file from your C drive. (Windows XP doesn't like having two operating systems on two hard drives connected at the same time)
Next, you reconnect the D drive and boot the PC from that. You then have exactly the same windows setup, files , apps etc. running from the larger D drive, and you can format the c drive if you like to give you even more space. Or keep it as a a backup, which is what I do
Norton ghost costs about £30 GB retail or if you know someone in the computer trade, you can get the OEM version for about £16 GB. It's a brilliant tool, worth it's weight in gold
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Posted: 2005-03-28 13:24:54
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That would work. But xp and other few items on c: only takes 3gb. And as i know, if windows and other games and programs are in the same partition, it affects performance badly. Reinstalling applications in D, and moving media files to D is easier.
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Posted: 2005-03-28 13:36:48
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nickorooster Posts: > 500
If you really want the OEM version of ANYTHING just look on eBay. They have to sell it to you with a piece of hardware tho, so expect to get a free screw or something like that with it
. I got a working floppy drive once... (the old 5.5" ones [or whatever size it was])
Nick
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Posted: 2005-03-28 16:18:36
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@namal
It depends how old your PC is really. The main factor used to be the Hard Drive seek time; slow disk rotation and slow arm movement meant that it could take a 'long' time to read and write stuff from various places on the partition.
Faster disk speeds (7200 rpm) and improved DMA have made this much less of a problem nowadays. Still, you've got a point, especially with very large partitions and if you want the absolute maximum performance.
The beauty of just ghosting the drive over is that you don't loose anything and you don't have to muck about moving stuff about, re-configuring apps to look at the new drive / directories etc. Depends how much stuff you've got on there I suppose
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Posted: 2005-03-28 16:55:59
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gosh i dont know that much buddy
anyway, thanks for the info.
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Posted: 2005-03-29 06:46:53
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