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12-18-2003, 05:23 AM
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XP and Partition Nightmare!
Doing some repair work on a mates PC and have noticed its chugging along mega slow as his C Drive (where windows xp is installed) has laft than 200 megs free. This drive is partioned and the other partition (D) has lots of spare space.
Obvisouly my first thought was to use my trusty Partition Magic 8 to redistribute the spare space but whenever I try to install and use PM on his machine the machine locks up. I've tried installing it to both his master drive and slave drive (he has 2 HDD's) and also checked the disks for errors and the like but no joy. Are there any freeware disk managers that will let me give more space to his C drive or any other methods I can use? He's running Win XP so its all NTFS. As an aside whenever his PC boots up it says he has an invalid boot.ini file dont know if this is related to the PM problem? Help please! |
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12-18-2003, 06:14 AM
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Ride 'em Cowboy
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Might try clearling as much space as possible on the C drive. Uninstall some stuff and move whatever you can. Then try installing PM.
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12-18-2003, 08:29 AM
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A lot of space is taken up by the Restore Points in XP. Try going into Disk Cleanup. You can not onlly empty the temp, temp internet, recycle bin, etc. you can also uninstall windows components not being used. Click on the advanced tab and go to the Restore area to delete all but the latest restore point. That should free up a bunch of space. You might also set the virtual memory to "zero" TEMPORARILY, reboot and run the defragmenter. Make sure you reset the virutal memory back when done with defragmenting.
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12-20-2003, 08:36 AM
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You don't need to INSTALL PM 8.0 = all you need to do is to create the BOOT Disc of PM8.! then boot with it - rezise the partition and there you go.. .but before you even start defrag the hard drive using WinXP defrag utility..Garanteed to work.! Hpro
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12-22-2003, 03:06 PM
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How do I create the boot disc of PM8? Looked in the help for it and cant see any mention?
Will try deleting recycle points and see how much that clears up. Cheers for the help! |
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