XXClone & partitions

Hi all,

My sister had XP Pro (OEM ). It got munged. She bought a retail copy of XP Home.

Instead of doing a proper job (format, partition & install) the guy just installed Home on her second partition (D) and copied over most of her programs, etc., from the C drive to D. And, of course, she's had a lot of problems; mainly it's slower than molasses in winter.

I've used XXClone quite a few times now and it's always worked perfectly for me. What I'd like to know is:

1) Would it be best to format the C drive from Disk Management?

2) Or from: Run | format C:\ ? (Or maybe a Win98 boot floppy?)

3) Or, just do a mass delete of C, defrag, then XXClone the D to C drive?

Then, after the above: Format D or just do a mass deletion and just it for storage?

Or, if you have a better idea, I'd appreciate the input.

 

What are the sizes of the C: & D: partitions? Are they formatted NTFS or FAT32?

 

@Whiskeyman,

C & D are both 80GB; NTFS; 4kb cluster size.


@TonyT,

Ideally, your suggestion is what the guy should have done in the first place. However, doing so now will entail a lot more time and wherewithal than I have.

I'm looking for a down 'n dirty way to get the D to C because XP Pro is still on the C drive and it's munged. And, even though the boot.ini is pointing to boot to the D drive, bootup and opening\running all programs is really, really slow. I think it's because the programs were originally installed on C and when she tries to open them, the proggies are first looking to the C drive where they were and still are: In other words, the .exe files are on both C & D and I figure that getting rid of their instances on C will speed up her computer.

But, then again, I'm probably wrong in this assumption.

 

Change the Bios boot option to 1. CD-Rom, 2. HDD-0. Format C: using the WinXP Home disk then do a fresh install on C:. Transfer her files and reinstall programs to C: then format D:. The install on D: may be messed up which is causing it to run slow. No sense trying to clone it.