Is it possible to reverse a Partition Drive?

[Zoomboxer]

Sometime ago my Hard Drive Crashed and a new one was sourced. Guy who sorted it also set up 4 partitions on the Hard Drive - C, G, H and I - each about 29GB

PC has been running slow lately so decided to have a good clear out of all the junk that one collects.

The C drive only had 8% of available space left - this where the O/S sits, MS Office Suite etc etc. After deleting stuff it went up to 15% and is quicker.

My query is that the other drives are showing 99% of space and are never used - H: is for Games - not used, G: for web-publishing (which I use my lap top for) and I: has some photos.

Is it possible to just have one drive again? Would it work even quicker as the C: drive would now be 4 times the size it was previously ie from 29GB to 116 GB.

Thanking you kind gentlemen

 

[richie]

He should have done three partitions 50% for c and the rest spilt half again. That said 29GB for a c: partition using windows xp should be fine.

How about uninstalling certain software and reinstalling on another partition. Photoshop for example is supposed to be installed on its own drive.

Good luck.

BTW I am on a 5.5 year old Acer laptop which still runs fine with a 40GB drive. 17GB are free as I store everything on two external drives.

 

[JohnnyOldBoy]

Photoshop for example is supposed to be installed on its own drive.
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richie, do you mean Photoshop should be on it's own drive or partition ?

 

[richie]

Photoshop for example is supposed to be installed on its own drive.
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richie, do you mean Photoshop should be on it's own drive or partition ?

I understand your question and my answer is that I am unsure. But at least better in its own partition than in the same one as windows would be my honest answer.

Just googled it, in fact two answers I found state that, you should use a different disk/partiton for the scratch disk, which is where photoshop creates all its temp stuff. So what I first said appears to be wrong. Just use the photoshop preferences to tell it which disk to use for "Scratch disk" the biggest one available...

Plus, and you probably already know this, defragment your disk once a week.

 

[shugie]

A utility like Paragon's Partition Manager will allow you to move and resize partitions, or copy a disk to a new larger disk and resize the new disk partitions as you copy.

Disks do not last forever and are quite cheap, so I tend to stick a new one in my machines every three years or so, and it always seems to be about twice the size for just less than half the price.

 

[cookie]

try moving My Documents from C to one of the other partitions.

29GB should be more than enough for most XP system files + a bunch of programs.

 

[Bear]

If you have a defragmentation tool (I don't kwow WINXP at all but its predecessor had one) then use it on your C drive. It won't free up space but might well make file accesses a bit faster.