Exchanging hard drives

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Gabriel

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I've got an old computer that was running too slow, so I decided to buy an external hard drive and put in it most of the "trash" I could find but didn't want to delete.

The computer, however, has two HDs, one with 20GB storage space (called C) and the other with 80GB (H).

Now the C drive is around 10GB full, and has windows and office. The H drive is only about 4 GB full.

Would it make the computer faster if the OS was stored on the bigger HD?
If so, how could I do that?
 
i'll bet it's a 100G hard drive, paritioned into an o/s and storage drive

might speed things up if you condensed it to a single partition

or you could try tweak xp

i was gonna get a new computer, because my 3.6 p4 sucks at multitasking now that i have 3 monitors, but tweak xp sped my multitasking up to the point where i'm gonna wait another year to upgrade. it's a great program
 
I don't use it much for heavy gaming, but I'd like it to navigate in the internet and use some programs a little faster.

I know that buying a new memory or even a new computer would be the best choice, but I'm trying to make it so I don't have to open the computer, and it doesn't become too expensive.

Anyway, how can I exchange the HDs?
 
No, they're actually two HDs.
Initially it had only the 20GBs one, and the 80GB was added later.

Also, I'm running on Win2000
 
you could switch to linux ;)

It takes some getting used to, but speeds things up, and most distro's come with everything you'd ever need preinstalled.

You'd be suprised what a big difference it makes on a slower pc.
 
I can't unninstall windows from that machine, since I'm not the only one using it.
However, I'd like to try Linux, and that would be possible if I had Windows in the big HD and I installed Linux on the small one.
But how could I do that?
 
Once you'd copied the OS across to the larger drive, check in the BIOS and see if you can change the boot order to get the machine booting from the larger drive. Failing that you'd probably have to open up the machine and switch the drives around.
 
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