I have a C and E drive. The C drive is almost completly filled and is freezing up causing problems. I want to move some programs over to E but when I right click send to for some reason E does not show up as a choice. So I have to copy from C to E and then go back to C to delete but it worries me to do so that I may lose function mainly a lo of music and vedio software. Help!
2007-04-06 12:56:13 · 5 answers · asked by funson35111 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
In addition to gobuuku's response....
E Drive is a Hard drive and not a CD/DVD ROM RW?
That makes no sense.. You need to take your system to someone that knows what they are doing. Your PC has a mental issue where D and E are backwards, and they need to be switched unless E drive is an external drive... In which case I'll have to assume that you may just need to re-install your drivers.
2007-04-06 13:01:26 · answer #1 · answered by technical_13 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some application may work is you using that method. But some are not, and this is the most case. You better unistall it first and install it again and put the program files on E instead of C.
If you don't want to do that use System Mechanic ( http://www.iolo.com ) or Norton Utilities to help you do that. System Mechanic has tools named Software Relocate and Norton Utilties has similiar name to it (I forgot the name)
Both of it help you move your installed application to other location and change the setting as well.
This method not work on installed codec and office and may caused unistall error, so uninstall and install it to E is the best way to do that.
2007-04-06 20:07:28 · answer #2 · answered by must_zen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't just "move" program files. You have to un-install the program and re-install it to the 'e' drive. Even then, parts of the program will most likely be copied into one or more Windows system sub-directories. Piss-poor way of coding but then again programers have become very lazy.
Better to leave the programs where they are and move the actual data files if possible. You can move those quite eaisly and just point the application to the new location for the data.
2007-04-06 20:02:11 · answer #3 · answered by troythom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most programs will not like it if you move them to another disk. The best course of action is to uninstall them and reinstall them on the other disk.
The problems are due to the programs recording where they were installed and so they look for their settings and files in the original place.
2007-04-06 20:00:17 · answer #4 · answered by gobuuku 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could try backing up those important files in "C" on a CD or a DVD. Then just do a cut and paste from C to E. Also try cleaning up your recycle bin, removing unnecessary temp files and defrag C.
Hope this helps.
2007-04-06 20:06:46 · answer #5 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋