XP on old partition to small...

[cyndy10]

So, I installed XP today and WOW!!! Needless to say I am SPRUNG. I LOVE IT. It was a dream to install. Everything went incredibly easy. I was stunned to find out all my internal HW was already installed and configured, all I had to do was set the screen resolution and install my printer, I was good to go and already online too.

Question: I used my old partition from Win98, --2Gigs. I have a 40Gig HD so am not lacking in space(yet...) I can see now that 2 Gigs is not near enough space for XP. I already recieved a warning I was low on disk space on C Drive.

Here's my partitions:

C: 2G
D: 15G - 5 used as music storage
E: 10G - 5 used as application storage
F: 5G - Misc junk

I dunno where the other space is, no OS ever recognizes it, although when I first got it t was recognized, it sorta disappeared.

I used Fdisk to partition, is it possible to repartition INSIDE C & D and create say... 5-10 Gigs for WinXP or do I need to do the entire Drive?

What is the best way to do this? I wanna do it now before I get it all loaded up with new stuff.

I am networked with hubby's computer, (installed XP there today too, will need to do the same thing on an 8Gig HD) ...so I can move files to his drive and totally clear it off if I need to. I am willing to dump most of the stored applications but not the music.

Advice, please?

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1) AMD Athlon K7 1.2Ghz, 320Ram, onboard Audio and Video.
2) AMD K6/2 550Mhz, 194RAM, Monster Fusion, and ? Sound...
3) Linksys router and cable.

[tewetzel]

Partition Magic 7! (Or the latest Partition Commander, but I haven't used it.)

I did something similar; I installed XP to a 3GB partition and was getting "low disk space" warnings before too long. I'm not even sure how it filled up - I store My Documents and Desktop folders on another partition, along with Program files.

I used PM7 to shrink the partition following it by 1GB, then expanded the XP partition by 1GB to total 4GB. I have 1.12GB left. You'll want to do the same thing; shrink D: and expand C:. Of course, you'll want more than 4GB if you leave Programs Files and My Documents on the same partition. -tew

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Thanks! -Tim

[This message has been edited by tewetzel (edited 01-08-2002).]

[cyndy10]

THANK YOU. I'm on it right now.

C. I should be done in an hour, I'll let you know...

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1) AMD Athlon K7 1.2Ghz, 320Ram, onboard Audio and Video.
2) AMD K6/2 550Mhz, 194RAM, Monster Fusion, and ? Sound...
3) Linksys router and cable.