Re: Partition size

Haa ha ha. Stanley you must be a hundred years old and living in some
non-USA country. Most of us 'real' computer users are approaching terabyte
status and utilizing RAID arrays. I am far far far from being wealthy but I
purchase what it takes in order to have a PC that I won't grow out of for at
least a few years. Have you even looked at SATA HD prices lately? There is
no excuse to not have plenty of storage to grow into. My first hard drive
was 40 MB I grew out of that in about a minute, especially when Windows came
along and 100's of MBs were required; now it is GBs and in a year or two it
is going to be TBs. One, two and three terabyte systems will be advertised
as common off-the-shelf stock. You have some catching up to do, read some
computer magazines, talk to users, see what is going on.

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

Jim S wrote:
My drive is set up with 23.84 GB on C and 4.09 GB on E. Can I
resize the partitions to create more space in E? C is FAT 32 with
23.84 GB, of which
21.76 GB is free space (91%). E is NTFS with 4.09 GB, of which
526 MB (12%) is free space. This is causing slow operating and
messages to remove programs / files (especially when it gets down
to <200 MB). I have already move most of my personel files and
non windows XP programs to C. Suggestions?

Geminate wrote:
Get a new hard drive 200-300 GB, preferably Western Digital.
Format using only NTFS. Use the Western Digital utilities to
transfer the old hard drive data to the new drive (very easy to
do). In the real world you can't do WinXP + apps with less than 60
GB.

Although I suggested they get a new drive as well.. Your final statement is
blatantly false in that many people may not ever need more than 20GB.

Many computer owners do nothing more than surf the web, type a few documents
here and there and send/receive email. There are hundreds of thousands of
people still using Windows 9x and many who will probably die while still
using their older systems.

It's true that it is exceedingly difficult to purchase a system with under
80GB hard drives now. It's true that many people have GBs of music
collections they play on their iPods. It's true that many others have GBs
of games or GBs of movie files.

However - it is likely true that many people rarely use over 10GB of space
at this point in time - and if they do start approaching that - it is
because their installed applications are 40-80% of that and that there are
many things they just haven't cleaned up/archived/removed that they don't
utilize anyomore or even ever utilized.

Then you have business and such who rarely use as much space on the system
itself because they store everything on servers. All their email is never
actually on their machines in ways more than "cached". Their files are
nearly never saved locally. Their hard drives - sometimes in the 100's of
GBs - hardly ever see more than 8GB - and that is only if the computer tech
guys use it to store and image of itself on a hidden partition.

Essentially - your "real world" is very small - in comparison to the actual
"real world" the rest of us live in.
=)

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