Merging Partitions in Win98

Hi all,
I have a 13 Gig Hard Drive, partioned into C and E each approx 6.5 Gig. Partion E is empty and not needed anymore. Partion C has only 9% free space left after a thorough cleanup. I would like to delete partition E and join it to C. Which program can do a good job of this for Windows 98 SE?

 

I would suggest that you keep partition E: and use it for backups etc.

I myself think that it is quite dangerous to trust things to just one partition.

I think you would be better off to keep things the way they are and put things other than the OS back on the other partition.

Unless you have another place it also helps to have another partiton to keep any downloaded stuff.

I have three machines and none of them have anything ( or very little ) other than the OS on the C: drive.

BillyBob

 

Thank you both BillyBob and Pete C for your sound advice. I completely agree with you however, how do I transfer all programs and their attached data to the empty partition? Are the programs not linked to windows by means of the registry? How do I do this without causing a major hickup? Also, if I only keep the OS on drive C, I don't need 6.5 Gig. Wouldn't it be an idea to make C smaller - just to fit the OS plus an extra bit of space and give drive E more space? If this is advisable which program can do this for Win 98 and which program does the file transfer from drive C to drive E?

 

Automatic program transfer utilites are available, but they really need to monitor the progam as it was being installed. Best way would be to uninstall the program in Add/Remove Programs and reinstall them to the E: drive (you may need to use the "Avanced" install rather than the default install to be able to change the install location).

You can change the location of the My Documents folder. Look at My Documents in Help. You will need to make a My Documents folder on the E: drive and transfer your files over.

You can change the location of the Temporary Internet Files folder in IE under Tools -> Options. Also reduce it's size to a megabyte or two, you don't need much more. As I have just noticed (again), automatic cleanup does not remove all junk files. I do the remainder manually, but there are suggestions in this forum for using DOS. Clean out your Cookies folder.

Whatever "save" files you have just for backup, transfer them to a backup folder on the other drive. Same for anything like downloads you may be keeping.

Uninstall any programs you are not using at the moment and reinstall them to the other drive when you need to use them.

Matt
PS Uninstalling a program will not delete any of your saved files in the program's folder. You can move them or delete them if you want.

 

Good morning Christer.

This is not really a case of agreeing or dis-agreeing.

It is a case of doing what works best for the user.

I checked this morning and found.

A Win98SE unit with a 40GB HD with a 3.8GB C: with 1.9GB Free.
This XP Pro unit with an 80GB HD with an 8.3GB C: with 1.9GB Free.

BillyBob

 

Thank you to Christer, Mattman and BillyBob,
to Mattman... I do a manual cleanup beyond the automatic ones and clean Cookies, Temporary Internet Files, History as well as Recent Files every day of the year. Your advice to move My Documents, Temporary Internet Files, Backup files and programs which I use only occasionally is excellent and I'll do just that.
Thanks again everyone, for your kind help.
Axel