merging drive D and C

[tonymaclennan]

I have drive C with about 26Gb space and drive D which is default for software instaklaltions ect, we only need one drive and D only has 87MB left so can i merge these 2 ?

 

[dragon2309]

the operation your describing sounds like a job for RAID, this is no easy thing to do especially after you have been using both drives for so long. It is also an expensive thing to do. Your best bet is to simply change the default location that applications get installed to to the C drive.

If your using win XP then take a look here on how to do this: http://www.tech-recipes.com/windows_tips242.html

 

[alanuofm]

I have drive C with about 26Gb space and drive D which is default for software instaklaltions ect, we only need one drive and D only has 87MB left so can i merge these 2 ?

partition magic allows you to format and then reallocate the space.

 

[dragon2309]

partition magic allows you to format and then reallocate the space.

I think they are seperate drives, in hich case you will NOT be able to reallocate space spanning 2 drives.

 

[alanuofm]

I think they are seperate drives, in hich case you will NOT be able to reallocate space spanning 2 drives.

hes probably talking about partitions. we'll see.

 

[Curt]

New harddrives are relatively inexpensive these days, if you really want more space then just go buy a larger drive and clone your C: drive.

 

[Trizoy]

Your looking at to much trouble to save 87 mb and take away an icon.. deal with it

 

[tonymaclennan]

I think it is just a partion, not 2 seperate drives.


dragon2309, thanks for the link:

1. Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
2. Find ProgramFilesDir whose default should be C:\Program Files
3. Change this to whatever directory you wish. I changed it to D:\Program Files for example.

Im already stuck at step 1 lol. How do I get there ?

 

[Archangel]

go to start. then press the run button
in that box you type regedit and than you can select the folder