Drive Space going!

I have about 30GB on drive C, which seems is shared with drive D about 120GB.
These seemed the default settings, but after using a DVD authoring program, I find that I am left with about 300MB on drive C, making it impossible to use the drive for anything significant.
I have tried to move some files, but this causes problems with some software, and I am a little jittery about this, not wanting to create further problems!
Anyone know a simple, and cheap, way to increase the capacity of C:, and take some from D?
SONY PVC=RS404.Windows XP Home with 3GH Intel Pentium 4 HT. ATI Radeon 9200 128 MB DDR SDRAM. 169 GB HDD.
jonjon

 

jonjon, Partition Magic or any similar program should do the job nicely.

 

Resizing a partition is not without risks and you should never ever attempt it without full backup of your data. Partition Magic is undoubtedly good at it, but resizing your 120gig partition upwards on the drive is one of the more risky resizing operations. Much of your data on this partition will be in the part you want to reclaim and so it will all have to be moved, as will things like the FAT or MFT, bootsector, partition table (if it’s a logical).

Even if it all seems to go ok there might well be other problems later. It’s much safer to backup all the data on this partition to CD, then delete the partition, resize the XP partition into the new free space, then recreate the data partition and put your data back. You said the 120gig seems to be shared with the 30gig. Can you be more specific?

You should first look at what is using all the space in XP and see if this can be sorted. You DVD authoring tool no doubt has a ‘working’ or cache folder that requires a lot of space. Look in the program’s options as there is usually a setting to move this folder to another location. It may also have increased the size of your paging file, so you could move this over as well.

 

jonjon,

It appears that you're using the wrong terminolgy here, is it two seperate drives or two partitions on one HD? In looking at your system specs, its one HD.

While Mctavish's advice about backing up data is to be followed, there is no need to delete the D partition. The latest PM works quite nicely and will ask as an option which file folders to move to which partition. PM edition 8.0 can be had for under $40 US with some looking around.

A folder like that is usually in the DVD authoring program folder, and I doubt whether that folder alone can be moved, but see if there is an option to create that working cache other than in it's present location. Specifying the authoring software might help - someone may be familiar with it.

Regards - Charles