how to move hard drive space to another drive?

Question

hi, my father has recently bought a new hard drive for our computer (200 gb)
ok so it is installed and has been running fine, but for whatever reason my father decided to split it into a 3 40 gb drives and one 80 gb drive, i am now attempting to install a game and found that i am lacking HD space, i have compressed files, defraged, yada yada but it still not sufficient

i would like to know if it is possible to take the empty space from an existing drive and add it on the the master drive

Answer 1

You may be able to install the game on one of the other drives anyway if you wish, there will still be some parts of the program in the 'master drive' but the bulk will be on another.

If the 'master drive' is on the new drive your father bought then you can redistribute the empty space using partitioning and disk formating software. Bear in mind this comes with a risk of loosing data, but it is possible, I have done it myself. If they are literally two separate drives it is harder unless you are running software to let the two drives to act as one.

Answer 2

You need to resize the partitions using disk manager in windows XP or a third party application. You can mabye delete one of the 40's if there is nothing on it and then add it to the 80

To access disk management: run compmgmt.msc and then select disk magagement. You can re-partition anything that does not have the windows installation on it. NOte: you must be in as an admin to acess this.

THIS IS BUILT INTO WINDOWS XP NO OUTSIDE SOFTWARE IS REQUIRED

Answer 3

cant you install it to the 80 gb drive? try moving files around.

if that wont do there are programs that will let you change partition sizes (eg. partition magic) but there are risks involved, you might lose data on one or both of the partitions, (though that is recoverable)

Answer 4

theres a linux on cd called knoppix it has disk partitinong tools on it that will let you merge all the partitions togather:)

if there all empty you wont need to move any files

Answer 5

go to paragon site with partition magic and download their free files which you burn to an iso disc, use the disc to move your partition bomdaries. on a separate note, in your browser, go through tool/options and set the download folder where you want it to be. you can set it to always ask, if you wish,

Answer 6

no

try installing the program where you have space, rather than to the default (C:\Program Files\)

Answer 7

there is software that does that but for the same price you could buy another drive

Answer 8

theres method in you fathers madness?