I need to change main drives please help SERIOUS?

Question

I have a microsoft xp and it has two drives i think a c drive and a d drive, the c drive only has 15 gigs of space and d has 60 gigs but the c drive is the one that is naturally used and is out of space, i would like to know how to change it so that the d drive would be the one that would be naturally used

I have a microsoft xp and it has two drives i think a c drive and a d drive, the c drive only has 15 gigs of space and d has 60 gigs but the c drive is the one that is naturally used and is out of space, i would like to know how to change it so that the d drive would be the one that would be naturally used
I have already tried to just install things on the d drive but it wouldn't work, it was sims 2 and it just woulldnt work while i installed it and why did microsoft make the computer like that why not just have one and make it easy, like macs macs are pimp i have one the computer Im asking about is not mine but I run pc games on it

Answer 1

Hi, If you go to "My Computer" in your start menu you will see a list of of the components IE; drives, etc this will tell you which drives are which. If you right click on each you will see the amount of space used and available. If you compress you will gain some space on each drive. You could also archive the data you do not use all the time to the drive with the most available space. First you have to see which drive is which. Barb

Answer 2

all programs that are loaded need to put some files in the windows directory. This is what loaded up your C drive. Even if you do a custom install of say a hog like Microsoft Office. the majority can go on D but there are some files that still will install in c:\windows\system32 and other directories. without reformatting you can move some things and create more space on C. First go into properties of my computer, performance options, advanced. Change virtual memory in here you can change your paging file to you d drive instead of your c drive. (this is the file windows uses for programs when your running low on ram).
Next check your c:\windows directory. More than likely you will have directories like $NT Uninstall..... these are windows updates that have been done to your computer. you can delete them but remember if you do you can't remove the Microsoft update that was installed.
Run through your disk cleanup. remove all temporary stuff and anything in your recycle bin and such. DO NOT compress files this is just bad news.
These should gain some space for you. after your done make sure you can restart. Then run a defrag on your hard drive. All of this file deleting will have made your drive look like Swiss cheese. a defrag will make your drive run better and somewhat faster.
Good Luck

Answer 3

you cannot do that. your system is set to boot from C drive. you cannot change that. what you could do is increase the space of your c drive. not i am assuming that all you have is one hard disk that has two partitions.

if so, here is what you can do. first backup your data that is in the d drive. and then you will expand c drive to occupy the d drive. now i am not exactly sure about all the functions in xp but here is something you could do.

open run and type diskmgmt.msc and hit enter. mind you this is to be used only in case of real problems. if you mess up. that is it. you will have to re install you operating system and lose all your data.

so a window will open showing yout hard disk and its partitions. now that you have backed up your data. right click d drive and delete that partition. and split that into two different partitions. what you are going to so is, split it into two and merge the first half with c drive. so split it accordingly. so if you want your c drive to be 60 gigs, split your d into 45 and 15.

not right click your c drive and chose extend partition. and choose the first half..

now i am using vista, so some of the features are not available on xp. so you will have to look at all the options and choose yourself.

but never choose del partition or format on you c drive.

Answer 4

unless you want to do a complete reinstall then just uninstall some of the software on c:/ drive and move all your data (music, video, photos, games) off c to d drive, and when you install software then install it all on to d drive, 15 gig is a lot of space, the maximum windows XP takes up is 3 gigabytes

Answer 5

First you have to quite loading (that is letting the applications default to the "C:>" drive), most installation apps let you use "D:>" (or "E:>" add infinitem)! This way you have plenty of room o "C:>" for the O.S.. The causality is when you do a scan, defragmentation or anything eles for disc maintenance function it will be done faster having less on "C:>" drive. As for switching drives I would advise against it. You would have re-register and it other problems associated with doing that.