Re: Windows XP Installation

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From: Stephen Harris (Stephen_P_Harris_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/14/04 

Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 07:55:47 -0700

"mike" <mike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8B7D9929-99A8-47FC-A53A-3E3C4FC103EB@microsoft.com...
> I recently upgraded from ME to XP (Home Edition) on my laptop. The hard
> drive on my laptop is partitioned into a C and D drive. The XP
installation
> defaulted to tthe C drive and I am now getiing the low disk space message.
> My D drive is 99% empty, my C drive is 99% full. I want to move XP from C
to
> D. Is it a simple as deleting XP from the C and reinstalling on the D? I
am
> concerned because it is the operating system and I don't want to create a
> mess.
> --
> mike

If you are talking about physical hard drives C and D you have
to change the jumper settings to make drive D the master and
change C: to the slave. They have shareware which will clone
drive C: to drive D.

If you meant you have logical drives C and D on the same
hard drive, then get some shareware like BootItNG or
Partition Magic and shrink Drive D and allocate the space
to drive C: A very easy solution. You can reduce Drive D
down to 8mb and give all the surplus to drive C:

Regards,
Stephen

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