Windows on c drive, no free space

carlih1

My friend has just got a new pc, which she installed windows onto, but it has loaded onto c drive and she has no free disk space. Is there an easy way to put it onto d drive?

carli

Gatecra5her

By default C drive is the primary hard drive and D drive is a cd drive, what are they on your friend's computer?
If C drive on her comp is the main drive, and she only has windows on it, then it must be tiny if it's full already! (about 300 megs, pretty much impossible to get a HD that small these days). Also it could be that windows has just installed on a partition of the main hard drive. Are C and D drives both Hard Drives?
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-Mark

Zahc

She must have a tiny c: drive or somethings gone a bit pete tong. Can you list her drive names and capacities?

carlih1

d drive the hard drive and c is the drive where my docs etc are kept

carlih1

c drive has 512mb and d drive had 40gb

John_Gray

512 MB for a C: drive? You wouldn't be able to install XP on that!

Tell her to format the C: drive on the reinstall, either with around 20 GB of space for the C: drive, or maybe even the whole drive as her C: drive.

John

carlih1

ok it seems like she only has one hard drive 512mb, although i hve two c and d.

carlih1

John_Gray wrote:

512 MB for a C: drive? You wouldn't be able to install XP on that!

Tell her to format the C: drive on the reinstall, either with around 20 GB of space for the C: drive, or maybe even the whole drive as her C: drive.

John

how do you do that

leesmithg

carlih1 wrote:

ok it seems like she only has one hard drive 512mb, although i hve two c and d.

She could not have purchased a new computer with a hard drive 512mb in size.

Last time I used a drive that big was for windows 3.1.

There must have been a bodge when it was built.

Primarily c: is default HD.

However I have run multiple operating systems using F: as my XP drive and then other higher drives C: E: for other windows versions.

Tell you friend to save all her stuff to a zip or usb pen drive and reinstall windows and run the partition manager when if you want more that 1 partion when you format and reinstall xp.


If you wish to reinstall windows clean install.

Reboot windows, hit delete enter bios, set boot order as cd rom then hard drive (usually) HD0 then floppy.

f10 to save 'Y' enter reboot make sure windows disk is in and follow instructions.

carlih1

she bought it off ebuyer and this is the spec

· Intel Celeron 2.53GHz Processor

· 512MB DDR

· 40GB IDE HDD

· DVD RW 16x Dual Layer

· PS/2 Keyboard

· Microsoft Optical Mouse

· On-Board Graphics

· On-Board LAN

Shouldn't she have two drives ?

albertross_2

that's a 40GB drive.............., the 512 is ram.

what makes you think it has run out of space (right click on c: in explorer, and then click properties).