Jack, When you take space from one drive and allocate it to another, you don't change anything as far as drive lettering or re-partitioning. There is absolutely no problems with this method. You should try Partition Magic. It is simple to use.
Glen -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Kaufmann Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 2:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Allocation of computer drives >From past experience, repartitioning can be frought with problems. >Watch out for the other programs you have as the may not take kindly to being drive changed. Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glen Ballard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 4:42 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Allocation of computer drives > 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 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
