partition on hard drive lortie258 6/20/2007 4:09:01 AM I have a problem with a partition on my hard drive. I don't have a start up disk to be able to wipe it clean and start fresh. with only 40 GB hard drive the partition is set at 10GB with 27GB not even in use... is anything i can do to take it down?

Re: partition on hard drive "Harry Ohrn" <harry---[ at ]webtree.ca> 6/20/2007 4:53:49 AM "lortie258" <lortie258[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:CA9D965F-61A8-45DB-B2CA-24FCC226B951[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > I have a problem with a partition on my hard drive. I don't have a start > up > disk to be able to wipe it clean and start fresh. with only 40 GB hard > drive > the partition is set at 10GB with 27GB not even in use... is anything i > can > do to take it down? You need third party repartitioning software. It will allow you to shrink the 27 GB and apply the free space to the 10 GB partition. Or you can completely delete the 27 GB and give all the space to the 10GB. I am not aware of good free third party tools that will enable you to do this though. Acronis Disk Director is a retail program that works well for this www.acronis.com Another option is to use the 27GB. You can format it as NTFS. Then relocate your My Documents directory by right clicking the My Documents icon and selecting Properties->Target Tab->change the target location to the location of the new drive letter. You can also have your Outlook Express "Store Folder" located there by opening Outlook Express and Tools->Options->Maintenance Tab->Store folder button. You can have other applications that download or save files to save there as well. -- Harry Ohrn MS MVP [Shell\User] www.webtree.ca/windowsxp

Re: partition on hard drive "Merlin" <Merlin[ at ]noway.com> 6/20/2007 5:15:22 AM "lortie258" <lortie258[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:CA9D965F-61A8-45DB-B2CA-24FCC226B951[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > I have a problem with a partition on my hard drive. I don't have a start > up > disk to be able to wipe it clean and start fresh. with only 40 GB hard > drive > the partition is set at 10GB with 27GB not even in use... is anything i > can > do to take it down? You could use Cute Parition Manager which is free. http://www.cutepm.com/

Re: partition on hard drive "Gordon" <gbplinux[ at ]gmail.com.invalid> 6/20/2007 6:54:30 AM "Harry Ohrn" <harry---[ at ]webtree.ca> wrote in message news:OujUGcvsHHA.4796[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > > You need third party repartitioning software. It will allow you to shrink > the 27 GB and apply the free space to the 10 GB partition. Or you can > completely delete the 27 GB and give all the space to the 10GB. I am not > aware of good free third party tools that will enable you to do this > though. BootITNG has a 30 day fully-functional free trial....

Re: partition on hard drive "Gerry" <gerry[ at ]nospam.com> 6/20/2007 8:54:06 AM You should be able to make better use of your existing partitions without changing their size. It is likely that an allocation of 12% has been made to System Restore on your C partition which is over generous. I would reduce it to 700 mb. Right click your My Computer icon on the Desktop and select System Restore. Place the cursor on your C drive select Settings but this time find the slider and drag it to the left until it reads 700 mb and exit. When you get to the Settings screen click on Apply and OK and exit. Another default setting on a large drive which could be wasteful is that for temporary internet files especially if you do not store offline copies on disk. The default allocation is 3% of drive. Depending on your attitude to offline copies you could reduce this to 1% or 2%. In Internet Explorer select Tools, Internet Options, General, Temporary Internet Files, Settings to make the change. At the same time look at the number of days history is held. The default allocation for the Recycle Bin is 10 % of drive. Change to 5%, which should be sufficient. In Windows Explorer place the cursor on your Recycle Bin, right click and select Properties, Global and move the slider from 10% to 5%. However, try to avoid letting it get too full as if it is full and you delete a file by mistake it will bypass the Recycle Bin and be gone for ever. If your C drive is formatted as NTFS another potential gain arises with your operating system on your C drive. In the Windows Directory of your C partition you will have some Uninstall folders in your Windows folder typically: $NtServicePackUninstall$ and $NtUninstallKB282010$ etc. These files may be compressed or not compressed. If compressed the text of the folder name appears in blue characters. If not compressed you can compress them. Right click on each folder and select Properties, General, Advanced and check the box before Compress contents to save Disk Space. On the General Tab you can see the amount gained by deducting the size on disk from the size. Folder compression is only an option on a NTFS formatted drive / partition. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "lortie258" <lortie258[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:CA9D965F-61A8-45DB-B2CA-24FCC226B951[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > I have a problem with a partition on my hard drive. I don't have a > start up > disk to be able to wipe it clean and start fresh. with only 40 GB hard > drive > the partition is set at 10GB with 27GB not even in use... is anything > i can > do to take it down?

Re: partition on hard drive "Harry Ohrn" <harry---[ at ]webtree.ca> 6/20/2007 1:32:55 PM "Gordon" <gbplinux[ at ]gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message news:eJYlcfwsHHA.1672[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > "Harry Ohrn" <harry---[ at ]webtree.ca> wrote in message > news:OujUGcvsHHA.4796[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> >> You need third party repartitioning software. It will allow you to shrink >> the 27 GB and apply the free space to the 10 GB partition. Or you can >> completely delete the 27 GB and give all the space to the 10GB. I am not >> aware of good free third party tools that will enable you to do this >> though. > > BootITNG has a 30 day fully-functional free trial.... BootIt NG is a stable program with excellent support. While it is free to try you had better buy it or remove the partition you created with it before the 30 days times out or you could well be locked out of your system. -- Harry Ohrn MS MVP [Shell\User] www.webtree.ca/windowsxp

Re: partition on hard drive "Gordon" <gbplinux[ at ]gmail.com.invalid> 6/20/2007 1:41:33 PM "Harry Ohrn" <harry---[ at ]webtree.ca> wrote in message news:u35sK%23zsHHA.1184[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > "Gordon" <gbplinux[ at ]gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message > news:eJYlcfwsHHA.1672[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> "Harry Ohrn" <harry---[ at ]webtree.ca> wrote in message >> news:OujUGcvsHHA.4796[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >>> >>> You need third party repartitioning software. It will allow you to >>> shrink the 27 GB and apply the free space to the 10 GB partition. Or you >>> can completely delete the 27 GB and give all the space to the 10GB. I am >>> not aware of good free third party tools that will enable you to do this >>> though. >> >> BootITNG has a 30 day fully-functional free trial.... > > > BootIt NG is a stable program with excellent support. While it is free to > try you had better buy it or remove the partition you created with it > before the 30 days times out or you could well be locked out of your > system. > Nope - you don't have to install it to the HDD to do partition work - it runs directly off the floppy. And I'm running on partitions I created with the trial some six months ago......and in fact the floppy is still working as well, as you don't need a registration key to use it on a floppy.

Re: partition on hard drive "Harry Ohrn" <harry---[ at ]webtree.ca> 6/20/2007 2:12:20 PM "Gordon" <gbplinux[ at ]gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message news:%23%23HH6C0sHHA.4796[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > "Harry Ohrn" <harry---[ at ]webtree.ca> wrote in message > news:u35sK%23zsHHA.1184[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> "Gordon" <gbplinux[ at ]gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message >> news:eJYlcfwsHHA.1672[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>> "Harry Ohrn" <harry---[ at ]webtree.ca> wrote in message >>> news:OujUGcvsHHA.4796[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >>>> >>>> You need third party repartitioning software. It will allow you to >>>> shrink the 27 GB and apply the free space to the 10 GB partition. Or >>>> you can completely delete the 27 GB and give all the space to the 10GB. >>>> I am not aware of good free third party tools that will enable you to >>>> do this though. >>> >>> BootITNG has a 30 day fully-functional free trial.... >> >> >> BootIt NG is a stable program with excellent support. While it is free to >> try you had better buy it or remove the partition you created with it >> before the 30 days times out or you could well be locked out of your >> system. >> > > > Nope - you don't have to install it to the HDD to do partition work - it > runs directly off the floppy. And I'm running on partitions I created with > the trial some six months ago......and in fact the floppy is still working > as well, as you don't need a registration key to use it on a floppy. So you are saying it isn't trialware but freeware providing you don't install it? -- Harry Ohrn MS MVP [Shell\User] www.webtree.ca/windowsxp

Re: partition on hard drive "peter" <peter[ at ]nowhere.net> 6/20/2007 2:27:58 PM They still call it a trial but if you never install it and run it from a floppy there is nothing to expire. I too am running on 2 HD's partitioned with Bootitng into 4 partitions each using XP for the past year or more. When I ran Vista RC2 I used bootitng to erase one partition and expanded another for a Vista/XP dual boot. peter "Harry Ohrn" <harry---[ at ]webtree.ca> wrote in message news:uFZScU0sHHA.4612[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > > "Gordon" <gbplinux[ at ]gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message > news:%23%23HH6C0sHHA.4796[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> "Harry Ohrn" <harry---[ at ]webtree.ca> wrote in message >> news:u35sK%23zsHHA.1184[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >>> "Gordon" <gbplinux[ at ]gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message >>> news:eJYlcfwsHHA.1672[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>>> "Harry Ohrn" <harry---[ at ]webtree.ca> wrote in message >>>> news:OujUGcvsHHA.4796[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >>>>> >>>>> You need third party repartitioning software. It will allow you to >>>>> shrink the 27 GB and apply the free space to the 10 GB partition. Or >>>>> you can completely delete the 27 GB and give all the space to the >>>>> 10GB. I am not aware of good free third party tools that will enable >>>>> you to do this though. >>>> >>>> BootITNG has a 30 day fully-functional free trial.... >>> >>> >>> BootIt NG is a stable program with excellent support. While it is free >>> to try you had better buy it or remove the partition you created with it >>> before the 30 days times out or you could well be locked out of your >>> system. >>> >> >> >> Nope - you don't have to install it to the HDD to do partition work - it >> runs directly off the floppy. And I'm running on partitions I created >> with the trial some six months ago......and in fact the floppy is still >> working as well, as you don't need a registration key to use it on a >> floppy. > > So you are saying it isn't trialware but freeware providing you don't > install it? > > > -- > > > Harry Ohrn MS MVP [Shell\User] > www.webtree.ca/windowsxp > >

Re: partition on hard drive "Gordon" <gbplinux[ at ]gmail.com.invalid> 6/20/2007 2:28:54 PM "Harry Ohrn" <harry---[ at ]webtree.ca> wrote in message news:uFZScU0sHHA.4612[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > > "Gordon" <gbplinux[ at ]gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message > news:%23%23HH6C0sHHA.4796[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> "Harry Ohrn" <harry---[ at ]webtree.ca> wrote in message >> news:u35sK%23zsHHA.1184[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >>> "Gordon" <gbplinux[ at ]gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message >>> news:eJYlcfwsHHA.1672[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>>> "Harry Ohrn" <harry---[ at ]webtree.ca> wrote in message >>>> news:OujUGcvsHHA.4796[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >>>>> >>>>> You need third party repartitioning software. It will allow you to >>>>> shrink the 27 GB and apply the free space to the 10 GB partition. Or >>>>> you can completely delete the 27 GB and give all the space to the >>>>> 10GB. I am not aware of good free third party tools that will enable >>>>> you to do this though. >>>> >>>> BootITNG has a 30 day fully-functional free trial.... >>> >>> >>> BootIt NG is a stable program with excellent support. While it is free >>> to try you had better buy it or remove the partition you created with it >>> before the 30 days times out or you could well be locked out of your >>> system. >>> >> >> >> Nope - you don't have to install it to the HDD to do partition work - it >> runs directly off the floppy. And I'm running on partitions I created >> with the trial some six months ago......and in fact the floppy is still >> working as well, as you don't need a registration key to use it on a >> floppy. > > So you are saying it isn't trialware but freeware providing you don't > install it? > Not sure that's what they intended, but that's how it works... ;-)

Re: partition on hard drive "Harry Ohrn" <harry---[ at ]webtree.ca> 6/20/2007 3:37:56 PM "Gordon" <gbplinux[ at ]gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message news:OQ1iXd0sHHA.1672[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > "Harry Ohrn" <harry---[ at ]webtree.ca> wrote in message > news:uFZScU0sHHA.4612[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> >> "Gordon" <gbplinux[ at ]gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message >> news:%23%23HH6C0sHHA.4796[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >>> "Harry Ohrn" <harry---[ at ]webtree.ca> wrote in message >>> news:u35sK%23zsHHA.1184[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >>>> "Gordon" <gbplinux[ at ]gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message >>>> news:eJYlcfwsHHA.1672[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>>>> "Harry Ohrn" <harry---[ at ]webtree.ca> wrote in message >>>>> news:OujUGcvsHHA.4796[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >>>>>> >>>>>> You need third party repartitioning software. It will allow you to >>>>>> shrink the 27 GB and apply the free space to the 10 GB partition. Or >>>>>> you can completely delete the 27 GB and give all the space to the >>>>>> 10GB. I am not aware of good free third party tools that will enable >>>>>> you to do this though. >>>>> >>>>> BootITNG has a 30 day fully-functional free trial.... >>>> >>>> >>>> BootIt NG is a stable program with excellent support. While it is free >>>> to try you had better buy it or remove the partition you created with >>>> it before the 30 days times out or you could well be locked out of your >>>> system. >>>> >>> >>> >>> Nope - you don't have to install it to the HDD to do partition work - it >>> runs directly off the floppy. And I'm running on partitions I created >>> with the trial some six months ago......and in fact the floppy is still >>> working as well, as you don't need a registration key to use it on a >>> floppy. >> >> So you are saying it isn't trialware but freeware providing you don't >> install it? >> > > Not sure that's what they intended, but that's how it works... ;-) They likely intend to get it for free. Too bad it has to be posted that way here :( -- Harry Ohrn MS MVP [Shell\User] www.webtree.ca/windowsxp