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Zeraph · 04-13-2010, 10:34 AM

So my mom's old harddrive went to swim with the fishes. Of course she calls on me to come fix it. I pick her up a new one and install all the programs. While I'm doing this I realize there is way way less space than there should be (its a ~150gb harddrive and I was running out at 7gb.)

After some digging I realized for some reason windows XP only created one partition to install windows on...that was only 7gp big. Skip ahead. After some fixing and mucking about I end up with 3 partitions. A 7gb with windows and some programs (/c). A 54mb useless one. And the big one (~130gbs.)

The problem is the system constantly thinks its low on space and readjusts virtual memory. This causes everything to run slow. It also defaults to installing things on drive C which has such limited space. Like mydocs and all that are in there.

So what's the easiest solution? If I delete a partition everything goes by by on that partition right?

I could manually move things over to the bigger drive but I hear that can go south rather quickly and is annoyingly complicated to boot.

Or I could uninstall all the programs except window's off drive C and reinstall them on the big drive. That sounds annoying plus I may still have all the same problems.

Or I could reformat completely and start from scratch.

That sound about right? What route do you think I should go?

04-13-2010, 10:34 AM	#1 (permalink)
Zeraph Banned Location: The Cosmos	Partition problems So my mom's old harddrive went to swim with the fishes. Of course she calls on me to come fix it. I pick her up a new one and install all the programs. While I'm doing this I realize there is way way less space than there should be (its a ~150gb harddrive and I was running out at 7gb.) After some digging I realized for some reason windows XP only created one partition to install windows on...that was only 7gp big. Skip ahead. After some fixing and mucking about I end up with 3 partitions. A 7gb with windows and some programs (/c). A 54mb useless one. And the big one (~130gbs.) The problem is the system constantly thinks its low on space and readjusts virtual memory. This causes everything to run slow. It also defaults to installing things on drive C which has such limited space. Like mydocs and all that are in there. So what's the easiest solution? If I delete a partition everything goes by by on that partition right? I could manually move things over to the bigger drive but I hear that can go south rather quickly and is annoyingly complicated to boot. Or I could uninstall all the programs except window's off drive C and reinstall them on the big drive. That sounds annoying plus I may still have all the same problems. Or I could reformat completely and start from scratch. That sound about right? What route do you think I should go?