How can i clean drive 'c'? can i increase the size of 'c' when iam having 80 GB HDD not using D,E,F?

Answer 1

YES you can move C: to make it bigger, and then wipe it.

Use Partition Magic, or one of dozens of programs like Partition
Logic, available from sites like TUCOWS.com or DOWNLOADS.com etc. Go to Dogpile.com and SEARCH for
Partiton software.

Once you have a program that you can test, and see what D:, E:
etc. are in size, you start at the LAST drive, say F:, and move the
front of it into the end. Then Move up E:, then D:, - you will
at that point have a blank space at the end of C:. You can only move
C: larger, into an empty space.

Then, you have a larger C:

Go to BOOTDISK.com and get a Win9SE boot disk.
Go into your BIOS and set your BOOT sequence to
FIRST DEVICE Boot from FLOPPY, and boot from the
WIN98SE floppy. Run FDISK, first and check the
reported C: section, ( 4 is information) , and the drive
amounts in D:, E:, and F: If these look correct, you can
Delete the C: primary partition. and then create a new
one.
Iff your partiton software allows the option of creating a partition
FLOPPY, you can boot from this floppy, and delete the old C:
( It could be XP, or NT, OS/2, or LINUX, ( You do not state which )), and re-format C: as whatever file structure you want.
If you have Win98 OS, then you just simply use the Win98
boot disk to FORMAT C:
If your present operating system is XP or NT or whatever, you
can't access the FORMAT command with a typical floppy,
so you need the FDISK command to remove the non-DOS
partition first, then you have to re-create it as a FAT32 partiton,
and then, you can work with it...
If you have the WINXP disk, you would use the floppy to REMOVE the non-DOS partition, then NOT re-create it,
leaving a blank space, which, when you BOOT from the CD,
( Win XP ), XP would see, and ask if you wanted to use the
blank space. Then you FORMAT the space as NTFS, and
proceed.
If you do not want D: E: and F: at all, and have no information on them, you can use the Win98SE boot floppy to remove ALL the
partitions, starting with Drives in the Secondary partition, remove the secondary partiton, then remove the primary parttion.
Then use FDISK to CREATE a primary, active partition, using
all available space. Then, ESC, reboot, and install whatever
Operating System you want, on the new C:, after using the
floppy to FORMAT C: (unless you want XP - leave the Hdd blank)
hope this helps.
robin

Answer 2

Unfortunately this really depends on what the other drive letters are. If drive D is a system recovery drive (HP, Compaq etc.), then there is nothing that can be done about that without risking losing the OS at some point.

If you computer has been divided up into several partitions, with nothing on D, E, etc., then yes it is possible but not simple. The easiest way would be to buy Partition Magic, but it is not likely to be useful in your case (see above).

You can clean drive C:, though. Click Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and click Disk Cleanup. After gathering data, which can tak several minutes, you can safely check every box except for Windows Uninstall files or Office Install files. It will clean your computer for you, and compress any files that you have not used in awhile. This should result in hard drive space being freed up, and possibly a significant amoutn.

The only other option is to purchase and install in addition to or replace your old hard drive. I would not suggest trying this without talking with a friend who knows how to do that.

Answer 3

U can clean ur c drive by disk clean up.If u want to clean it entirely then format drive c with the help of 98 bootable floppy.
U can also change the size of drive c at the time of windows installation.That time u can change size of any partition.U can increase or decrease size of any partition.

Answer 4

the shortest way is to format it.
use a start-up disk, or bootable cd, then format your hdd.
then install a new OS without any partition.

Answer 5

I think you have to format the system for PARTITION.

Do Careful.