xp on 1 drive with 3.50 g and rest of the prgrms on the other with 30g can i take space away from the 30g?

Question

simply want to take unused memory and swap it to the other drive to stop critical mem alerts

Answer 1

No. Not without disrupting data from either partition.

Answer 2

Yes You Can, get Parition Magic or any other Partition Manager, and reboot with it in the cd drive, resize the partition.... And when you use XP home or pro, you need at least 8 to 10 gigs of harddrive for the OS to grow. Good Luck

Ranish Partition Manager is a good free one, google "free partition manager" without the quotes, there are many good one's for free, study up on the partitioning process if you are unfamiliar with it...

Answer 3

Yes, of course you can use another hard disk for your swap file.

If your second hard drive is bigger than your C: and your situation is that you need more space for your swap file, you could copy the entire partion of drive C: to your other HD in case it is bigger, by using one of the many programs on CD's that come with every hard drive manufacturer out there give away with their hard drives. You can download them from websites of Maxtor, Seagate, and every major hard disk manufacturer.

The idea is copy the entire partition of C: with that software to that second hard drive as I said above, then swap your hard disk's jumpers in the back of each drive making one Master, the other Slave in case you have on the same data cable, if you have them with separate data cables, just swap the cables.

You will end up having your entire system on the second drive without any problem, just swap the cables and/or your jumpers and you are ready to go.

Or, if that is not the situation, and you still want to use your present C: as it is, and all you want is use your other hard drive to put your swap file there, yes you can do that.

Go to Control Panel, Performance and Maintenance, System, Advanced, Performance, click on Settings, Advanced, under Virtual Memory click on Virtual Memory. - There you will see all the drive letters on your computer, select the one where you want to put your swap file, there you can select "System Managed size" or, you can set it to the mininum amount of RAM used for swap file size recommended by Windows, and the maximum you want, click on "Set" then "OK" and that is it, you're done.

Next time you reboot, your Windows XP will use that other second drive to put it's swap file there from now on, rather than on C:, it's good specially if your second hard drive is faster than the first one, or even if it is not faster, it's better to have your swap file on a second hard drive for many reasons.

After you do this and rebooted, defragment your C: drive, because there will be gaps due to moving your swap file to the second hard drive. You will end up with a faster and better organized hard disk and Windows system, plus less to no memory crashes and/or messages.

I hope this helped.

Answer 4

back-up important data and change partition sizes