The 120 GB is the size of the drive before it is formatted. The formatting process eats up some of the space.
If you want to increase the C:\ drive and reduce the D:\ drive, this can be done. To accomplish this, you will need a program called Partition Magic from Symantec. There are other programs that do the same thing, but I haven't personally used them. You can change the size of any hard drive to be what you want it to be. You can add 20 to 40 GB to C:\ and this will decrease D:\ by this much. I personally don't know why they limit the size of C:\ to 14+ GB. I have seen this done on laptop as well as desktop computers from the manufacturers. Glen -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gail Nestor Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 1:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Allocation of computer drives Here's a question for the computer buffs out there among us. It's slightly off-topic, but it does relate to where I store my Legacy files (as well as other personal files) on my computer. I am trying to understand how a computer's individual drive space is allocated and whether it can be re-allocated between drives. I have a 120GB new hard drive. My C:\ drive shows 14.9GB and my D:\ drive shows 96.8GB. Now I know this adds to 111.7GB and that leaves 8.3GB unaccounted for. I do have a floppy disk drive, a memory stick drive, and 2 DVD drives that appear to be for removable media only. I'm not sure where the rest of the space went. However, my main question is why is only 14.9GB allocated to C:\ and can/should this be changed? With my previous hard drive, I saved most of my data files on the D:\ drive because that's where all the major storage space seemed to be, and because it was neat and tidy and not buried in the computer's directory system. However, I don't understand then why the default drive for "my documents" and "my pictures" and such is under the C:\drive. Also, in many cases the default storage space for an application, Lecagy included, is very embedded within a sub-, sub-, sub-directory and can be somewhat hard to find. This issue comes up because I have just had all my data on my hard drive recovered and now am in the process of reloading my data files and *.usr files into the new hard drive. It has taken me a while to learn where all the needed files are stored. However, I think this will help me as I make plans to back up my data nightly to my new external 120GB hard drive. This seems to be better than having to manually save to multi-DVDs. Anyway, sorry this is long, but any thoughts are greatly appreciated! Gail Nestor Smyrna, Georgia, USA http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nestorgenealogy/ Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
