Moving C: to E: back to C:

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When I partitioned my harddrive. I made one big c: 160GB.
I noticed that I missed 21GB when I partitioned.

I made a 21GB E: my DVD is D:

I want to move all of C: over to the new E:
Rename old C: to E: or something else and make my new E: C: so I can boot
from that and have the over 100GB as my D: drive for all my programs and my
documents.

I can do this if I have a nother hard drive but, since this is all on one
drive. I seem not to be able to it..

How can I do this?

Thanks,

Morgan

morgandeath@charter.net

 

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That does not make any sense to do...get partition magic 8.0 and expand your
current c:\ to include the "lost" 21 gigabytes.



My personal experience shows that I had a gross misconception about software
engineers...I assumed that they were intelligent and were able to write
code! As I found out the hard way, even Microsoft is not immune to my
misconception. I have found that if I install software someplace else,
other than c:\Program files, I have always got glitches with the
program...especially at update time. My suggestion is not to install
programs in any other location than the default one...save yourself the
headaches.

 

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Morgan De'Ath wrote:
> When I partitioned my harddrive. I made one big c: 160GB.
> I noticed that I missed 21GB when I partitioned.
>
> I made a 21GB E: my DVD is D:
>
> I want to move all of C: over to the new E:
> Rename old C: to E: or something else and make my new E: C: so I can
> boot from that and have the over 100GB as my D: drive for all my
> programs and my documents.
>
> I can do this if I have a nother hard drive but, since this is all on
> one drive. I seem not to be able to it..
>
> How can I do this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Morgan
>
> morgandeath@charter.net


A clean installation. You cannot move the boot partition to any other drive
without a clean installation. There may be 3rd-party software that might be
able to accomplish this, but I don't know of any.
--
My great-grandfather was born and raised in Elgin - did he eventually
lose his marbles?