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Knight Theamion · 6 Dec 2004, 01:19

I have 2 different fysical harddrives on my pc

both these harddrives are partitioned

my operating system is running from partition F on harddisk 2, which is a total of 4.5 GB

I want to move all this to partition C on harddisk 1, which is 6 GB. Can I move it all, reboot, and then it magically runs from C, and ofcourse, if so, how?

roadrunner_0 · 6 Dec 2004, 01:36

you HDD should be booting firdgt, therefore, you should distribute ther
rest of the programmes among the availabe memory

Vaio · 6 Dec 2004, 01:40

It can be done, however as it is what is best described as a complete pig of a job, you don't really want to do it. Why exactly do you have it setup the way you do ?

~Vaio~

Knight Theamion · 6 Dec 2004, 03:15

when i installed this XP thingy i could only chose from a few partitions, but not the old one, since it had to be formatted first. With that in mind and the old operating system giving me jack shit functionality (which meant i really had to install something i chose this option, which i thought would give me with 4.5 GB enough space)

after that it found both fysical drives again and i could clean up my old partition, but at that stage i still had 1 GB of free space on my operating partition, however, however, i lost more and more space due to windows, so i moved all my documents and settings stuff that i could move to another partition and so forth, but now it really bugs me, I want to set it all up on another partition.

Peets · 6 Dec 2004, 11:27

maybe use mirroring?

Knight Theamion · 6 Dec 2004, 13:23

which means?

wu_trax · 6 Dec 2004, 13:41

i dont think you can just copy it all, i doubt that will work.
how much work would it be to just install winXP on c:\ all over again?
if you want to avoid that: did you move your windows-swap-file to the other partition? maybe that could give you a few 100 MB of free space. also, did you install any program to the default folders (in your case that would be f:\program files (or something like that). if so, maybe you can just reinstall a few programs to another directory on anthoer partition.

Vaio · 6 Dec 2004, 14:10

Copying won't work. All the file paths will need to be altered. And that's before you have to go through the registration database.

tbh, it's easier to reinstall everything again.

~Vaio~

Knight Theamion · 6 Dec 2004, 15:20

ah bloody hell.

(and yes wu_trax, the swap file, documents and settings, everything that could be moved has been moved to another partition.)

wu_trax · 6 Dec 2004, 15:41

if possible you should try to use a partition even larger than the 6GB. i have 10 for windows, i only need 5 and that includes the swap-file and some other stuff i could move, but i think its always a good idea to have some extra-space. last time a checked the prices a GB of hd-space did cost less than an €...

Knight Theamion · 6 Dec 2004, 15:43

you are right, i know, but I asumed I had enough space free ... getting another harddisk soon i think, the 4.5 partition is on a 30 GB harddisk, all my IDE slots are used atm, and I have a 45 GB harddisk lying arround, but that is on 4500 RPM, and I aint going to use 45 RPM on a OS partition

wu_trax · 6 Dec 2004, 16:05

i just got another idea: get a copy of partition magic 'somewhere' and just change the size of your partitions. i didnt use it for ages, but if i remember correctly you could change the size of partition with it without loosing any data.

Stew · 6 Dec 2004, 21:35

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Originally Posted by wu_trax

i just got another idea: get a copy of partition magic 'somewhere' and just change the size of your partitions.

I 'got' this for Ste once, seemed to solve his problems.

Knight Theamion · 6 Dec 2004, 22:45

got partition magic, but can't change the partition size, as the rest of the fysical hd is full. I really need to move this data from one partition to the other so it also boots from another fysical drive (etc etc etc)

Thermodynamics · 6 Dec 2004, 23:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by Knight Theamion

I have 2 different fysical harddrives on my pc

both these harddrives are partitioned

my operating system is running from partition F on harddisk 2, which is a total of 4.5 GB

I want to move all this to partition C on harddisk 1, which is 6 GB. Can I move it all, reboot, and then it magically runs from C, and ofcourse, if so, how?

Oh God.

Well the only solution I can think of is "ghost"(though i'm not sure about your different HDD capacities). And a new HDD, 200GB for €100 these days.
"my operating system is running from partition F on harddisk 2"- 2? i take it that this is your "master drive", and you have called it F.

Knight Theamion · 7 Dec 2004, 01:57

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Originally Posted by Thermodynamics

Oh God.

Well the only solution I can think of is "ghost"(though i'm not sure about your different HDD capacities). And a new HDD, 200GB for €100 these days.
"my operating system is running from partition F on harddisk 2"- 2? i take it that this is your "master drive", and you have called it F.

finding more and more out i need another harddrive, but:

i have 2 fysical harddrives, both with multiple partitions.