Re: how to make one more drive on my PC

This may be a safe, easy way of creating a psuedo "D" drive.

Create an artificial drive using a folder on an existing "C" drive.

On the C hard drive create a folder Drive_D

In the autoexec.bat file put the following line.

subst D: C:\Drive_D

Then go to My Computer and make a shortcut of D drive (optional)

Reboot the computer.


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Don
Vancouver, USA


"Irshad Alam" <IrshadAlam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On my PC there is only 1 drive, that is C:\
> Every thing is installed in this drive. operating system is windows XP
> professional
> My hard disk is 40GB (lot of spaces are blank), i want to make into 2
> drives. one will remain C: and other one as a D:
> I dont how to do it, I only know how to do partition during XP
> installation.
> My computer is having very important data, therfore I cannot format and
> reinstall it.
>
> Please advise me, any method by which I can make one more drive without
> formatting/deleting any thing.
>
> Regards.
>
> Irshad
>
>


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