I have Microsoft XP Professional installed in My PC which is in H drive . There is no OS installed in C drive. Whenever I start my PC in the begining itself and in between I get prompt that I have less memory in C drive (Its showing 18.7 Mb free space and used is 2.10 GB ) I donot have any data stored in C drive. I can't format C drive through CMD prompt. Is there any way to free up this space in the C drive and will my system work after formatting the C drive?
2006-12-06 00:39:46 · 7 answers · asked by sheetal s 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Boot computer from a bootable cd and then use FDISK utility to remove and create partition on C drive.
Then you may go for format.
2006-12-06 00:46:01 · answer #1 · answered by V 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you will not be able to repartition or reformat the C: drive while the system is running . Period . even though the install is on your H: things like the bootloader and probably the pagefile will be on C: .
Basically you are screwed . Fastest option , backup all important files on h: ( which cannot be restored from CDS ) . And wipe the system and reinstall , and then restore the files . You may also want to do a registry backup before this as well in case there are any important keys in there which you may need to go back to .
Note . If you make any changes to the C: drive outside of the OS ( by booting of a bootable CD ) , you will hose the system , the H: drive will be intact but the system will no longer boot to windows . If you do a repair from the windows CD at this point , you will simply go back to the way it is now .
2006-12-06 01:37:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why do you have your system files in the 'H drive?
Typically system files shoul be in the c drive.
Id either change the lettering to them and/or switch them out manually to see if putting h drive as the master and c drive as the slave, will solve your dilemna
Have you partitiioned the c drive is another question?
Partition it first, the format it
2006-12-06 00:45:49 · answer #3 · answered by writersbIock2006 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Right click my computer, go manage, go to disk management, change the drive letter of your c: to sumthing else and try it.
Or start up in dos mode and format
2006-12-06 02:40:47 · answer #4 · answered by Scott A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
specific you're doing the perfect element. you may have the two a million)the domicile windows 2000 CD AND the XP improve CD OR 2) an entire replica of XP. you may have the license key (or the two keys if using the improve disk).
2016-10-17 21:31:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
start; control panel; performance and maintenance; administrative tools; computer management; disk management; right click your drive; select format.
2006-12-06 00:44:50 · answer #6 · answered by wuxxler 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Executar e digite "redit".
2006-12-06 00:49:32 · answer #7 · answered by Dr. Joel - Fortaleza 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋