I have XP pro, and a 15 gig drive. The drive was wiped and formated NTFS. Wanted to partion the drive. Went to system manager, changed it to dynamic, used windows interface. It would only let me do up to a 7mb partion. How do I change this? I want about a 4 gig
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Is there a way to convert a partioned hard drive (c: / d for example and make it a single drive (c without losing all your folders and programs on the partioned drive. I am running out of space on the c: drive but the d: drive has some space left on it. And I want to just put them together as one drive.
View 9 Replies View Relatedafter I did a clean install on my daughters Dell E310, Win XP Home Edition there are now a C drive and a D drive. Partioned how?
I know I can go to my Computer and manage to delete one drive, but what happens if I delete the drive that has the important files to run the OS?
Yesterday my pc decided to give me a bit of grief. I loaded up the pc and went to click into My Documents and found the whole computer just free up. I restarted the pc thinking it was just messing me around, intending to do a defrag and virus scan to make sure (Norton 2010 internet security). To my horror, the pc wouldnt move past the Windows XP boot logo, it just sat there with the loading bar moving across the screen as if it was permantnly trying to load.
I reset again hoping to start it in safe mode, however upon doing selecting "Start In Safe Mode" it went through to a black load screen with white writing and populated the screen with loads of text about how it couldnt load specific windows files located on a partitioned part of the hard drive (that I load the OS on).
I have a Toshiba USB flash drive. I have a problem when I using it on a win2000 sysem. It keeps poping up a warnning message saying I removed the drive. And then "This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31)". But it is just a standard drive so that does not make sense. Other USB drives have the same issue. I can sometimes get them to work for a bit before this happens. It is almost like I removed it. It also will just do this at random. It is working pops up the warning, then not, wait a few minutes and it is working and conencted again. I tried another ports and same issue. Other USB devices work fine though.
View 7 Replies View RelatedThe problem I'm having is, every week I do a scan disk and defrag. I've noticed that once defraged since a few weeks ago I HAVE GONE from over 70% free space down to only under 40%....I don't run any major software at the moment BUTDO use the internet on ADSL most days BUT not to any great extent. The only connection I can c is this copying Dig pix straight to disc...Am I right or is there sumthing else going on
View 4 Replies View RelatedI just purchased a 2.5 hard drive enclosure for my Fujitsu drive that I removed from my broken laptop.I assembled the enclosure, connected it to the USB port on my pc, lights come on on the enclosure, I hear it spinning BUT my PC won't recognize it.Why? FYI, the Fujitsu drive from my laptop has Vista OS on it and my PC is an XP OS.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI recently noticed that my free space on hard drive has been eroded and my used space has been increasing. I have not added any software. Much to my dismay I cannot figure out why this would occur. We did make recovery disks and removed our partition some weeks ago. It seems our C drive is using up space without any explanation. Ran many different anti virus and spyware software and they did not detect anything.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI had to uninstall HP Photosmart C4100 series only because I was missing some wording on the buttons that just disappeared for some reason, It said to uninstall the program and then just reinstall it.
Well now, when I go to reinstall, it will not automatically start so I clicked on my computer and dvd-rw Drive (E and there are no files, in fact it states that my my file system is CDFS and the CDA Default - Full It says all space used 672 MB and Free Space 0 Bytes
I have 69.1 memory free from 74.5 and i noticed no matter how much i delete i cant get up into the 70s.For example this month i have deleted a ton of music files that came up to about 400mb,Then a few programs that were around 50mb each and still nothing .If anything it seems i am going down in memory instead of gaining from deleting these programs.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI'm running Windows XP sp2. Problem is, my C drive fills up. I have removed all but the latest restore point, reduced the max amount of restore point storage to 5%, and removed all of the programs that I don't use very often, moved all of my files to the D drive, clean the cache and remove cookies regularly, and use disk cleanup a lot. After all of this, I only have 1.25GB left in C drive. Not even enough space left to defrag the drive. Anyone have any suggestions? Before long I won't have ANY programs left. I don't use a TV card or anything like that, although I do have the capability to record but never use it.
View 14 Replies View RelatedIm running windows XP and I decided to partion my harddrive into 2. One for windows and one for general stuff.
I left my computer off for a week and when I returned my "general" partion of hard disk space has disappeared, and when opening programs it "cant find the link." I have no idea why its done this.
I need to free up space on my computer and I have already did a disk clean up and it tells me after the clean up how much I will gain, but once it is done it has not given me that space. How do I free more space and gain memory
View 9 Replies View RelatedThere is something wrong with my hard drive. My hard drive is 4.74 gb and when i first got my computer i had around 1500 mb space left and including windows office pack. Now i only have around 200 mb no office pack because i uninstalled it for personal reasons. and i only have 2 programs installed msn messenger and windows media player.I don't know what took up all the rest of the space
View 4 Replies View RelatedI recently was working with about seven 4gb file and they are now deleted however my hard drive space has went from about 65gb to 2gb. Yet everything is gone, and they wouldn't go in the recycle bin so its no being stored there. I got a tool called SpaceMonger that looks at free space and nothing is taking up that room. In fact what is shows is taking up room doesn't add up to the space being used. Are these file being held somewhere and not deleting. Is there anyway to clear the room again that isn't being taken up
View 16 Replies View RelatedI'm running Windows XP home on a modest laptop. Recently, I've noticed a massive reduction in my hard drive space for no apparent reason. Its specd at 40Gb, although in the 'properties' it states 33Gb actual capacity. BUT, If I 'explore' the hard drive, I come up with around 11Gb used. This includes all hidden folders as well (pagefile, hiberfil etc.) as well as the usual Windows, and Docs & Settings etc. I have only used 11Gb, 'properties' tell me I've used 29.2Gb, and only have 3.8Gb left I have used several anti virus scanners, and spyware scanners - but they make no difference to the capacity shown. I only have modest needs for hard drive space, but would really like my 18Gb back 29.2 - 11 = around 18
View 45 Replies View RelatedI added 97gb for a part of the drive and 30gb on another half.. and my HD is 186GB in all so now I have 58GB of free space.What I want to know is how do I add this free space to my 30gb partition?
View 14 Replies View RelatedHow can I free space on my D: drive? I have a total of 999 GB used and only 296 MB free. I have not downloaded much, but all of my space is being eaten up.
View 12 Replies View RelatedWhen I go to Windows Explorer it shows that I have used 22GB of space on Drive C, yet when I add up the total of all files on Drive C they only add up to 15GB.
View 2 Replies View Relatedwidows xp D drive showing 13% free space. how do in increase this?
View 3 Replies View Relatedokayy for some reason on my NTFS drive C: thing my capacity is 112GB...on my disk defragmenter it says i ahve 42.16Gb free or 37% free...can someone tell me how this is because i have like nothing on this computer and i just reformatted like a month ago..
View 14 Replies View RelatedI'm slowly running out of space on my Windows C Drive, with all the updates and stuff like that. Is there any way to move free space from other drives into the C drive?
View 4 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to allocate more space to a drive without doing the whole formatting process?
View 11 Replies View RelatedMy wife is actually the computer whiz in the family, but she's out of town and I could use some help. We are running Win. XP. Our C drive is full and I was wondering if there's some way to extend the file size. There's not enough room to defrag (15% needed?). I've deleted some apps, but it's not enough. Mail, everything is affected.
View 8 Replies View RelatedIm running Windows XP and I recently noticed that my "C:" drive has very little hard-drive space remaining--less than 2GBs out of about 38GBs. (My hard drive is partitioned into a C: and a D: drive.) I set about trying to free space on the C: drive. I have uninstalled a number of programs, I cleared my browsers' caches, deleted temporary internet and Windows temp files, used Windows disk cleaner and crap cleaner to remove junk, and reduced the space on the drive available to System Restore. Over the last several days, I
have cumulatively freed up about 6GBs of space; however, each time I take some action, I find that the space gets mysteriously used up and I'm left once more with less than 2GBs of free space. I have run my antivirus software (Avast!) and my spyware programs (Spybot Search & Destroy and Windows Defender). I am also using Zone Alarm free firewall. I don't know what more to do and cannot figure out what is eating up my hard drive space. My drive is in need of defragmentation, but cannot be defragmented because there is not enough space
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I recently downloaded loads of music video's with a view to burning them onto DVD using my Nero 7 DVD Burning Programes. I had 75% free space on my hard drive at that time. Many of these video's were flv format so I had to download and install a flv to mpg video converter programme. After converting the video's from flv to mpg so that Nero would accept them and making up the music video compilation using Nero 7 I noticed that I had only 4% free space left on my hard drive. So I couldn't get on with the second compilation. Nero told me I needed more hard disc space. I then deleted all the music video's I no longer needed, both the flv versions and the converted mpg versions
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have 80GB hard drive on my computer. I only have 31GB free space. My total size is 74.5GB. So I'm assuming the 5.5 is made up of programs needed to run the computer. I have deleted all my music video and audio files/folders which were taking up even more space. I've tried defragmentation, emptying the recycle bin etc etc. I've uninstalled some rarely used programs. In my Program Files there are 49 Items taking up 34.3GB of space. Surely this is too much, I do have Nero and Roxio which take a lot of space. Looking at 'Control Panel' I see 'Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1', 'Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2' and also 'Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Service Pack 2'. Do I really need 1.1 and 2.0 if I have 3.0
View 14 Replies View RelatedMy computer os is windows XP the drive is a 30 GB when I installed it I had to format it and now I only see 2.15 gb how do get to use the entire drive I have nothing on it so if it comes to reformating to do it a differnt way I will
View 5 Replies View RelatedI recently defragged my computer a few days ago. I started out with 14.9GB left on my C: drive (total capacity is 69.7GB) and ended with 3.2GB! I was highly upset, I don't know what could have gone wrong to cause my free space to almost completely deplete...does this usually happen? I also want to know if i can get my space back, and what I can do.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am running Windows XP SP2 with a Silicon Image SATARaid card running a 150GB mirrored volume. The fee space indicated by windows explorer indicates I have 19GB but when I add all the directory sizes together it only comes to 90GB. I have checked "Show hidden files and directories" and also ran a virus scan.I remember reading an article about how hackers can use disk on remote hosts and hide the data but have no idea how to check this, also I may be barking up the wrong tree.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have recently upgraded to Windows XP Professional, but I have several old zip disks that were compressed using Drivespace under Windows 98SE. Is there any way I can access these disks to get the stuff off them using XP? When I try accessing the drive I just get a file displayed called READTHIS.TXT which says the following:- "This disk was compressed using Windows 98 DriveSpace. To use this disk, you must first mount it. To mount it:
1. Run DriveSpace in Windows.
2. In the Drives list, click the drive that contains the disk, and then click Mount on the Advanced menu.
To automatically mount all compressed devices, use the Settings command on the Advanced menu. (If this file is located on a drive other than the drive that contains the compressed disk, then the disk is already ounted)." I do not have access to a computer with Windows 98 on it at this time.
