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To: texasflower

entirely to much stuff on C drive. Install on D drive and clean up C drive.


63 posted on 06/10/2005 1:48:42 PM PDT by jpsb (I already know I am a terrible speller)
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To: jpsb

I have no idea of how to do that, but willing to learn.


67 posted on 06/10/2005 1:52:37 PM PDT by texasflower (silent_jonny is the only one for me.)
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To: jpsb; texasflower
entirely to much stuff on C drive. Install on D drive and clean up C drive.
My experience is that in the real world people don't want to make the decision to delete files - and in the real world they actually don't have to do so. In the present instance, the computer belonged to a recently deceased dad, and the son probably would just as soon keep everything his dad put on it.

I am settled on the brute force approach. Unless the installed HD was pretty expensive, by the time it's full you'll find that you can afford a new one with four times the capacity for a reasonable price. You just buy a new hard drive and copy (the HD will have the utility and instructions for that, and for installing the new hard drive) everything over to the new drive. Make the new drive the master (using the BIOS options) so you're booting from the new disk and viola! , gobs of free disk space and probably a faster system as well.

Do that once, and if you're at all like me you'll never run out of disk space again until you're ready to replace the whole machine with something faster.


198 posted on 06/10/2005 4:51:04 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.)
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