Changing Drive

[Ballistic Banana]

After my recent problem with my pc crashing on reloading Windows it has choosing to start up and use the C drive(which is only 4 GB. everyhthing I use is on the D drive Which is 40GB. so obviously everything i download etc choses the C drive and the pc keeps saying i am nearly out of memory. and breath

Any ideas how i change it back to start with the D drive?

TIA

BB

>> Edited by Ballistic Banana on Tuesday 7th June 14:41

[FourWheelDrift]

Change boot order in the Bios (F1 on startup) I think.

Oh yes, what he said below. Forgot about changing the master/slave settings and swapping the disc over (doh!) Simple solutions best.

>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Tuesday 7th June 15:35

[mcflurry]

If there are 2 separate drives, then change the slave/master jumpers and install the operating system on the new "c" drive

[Ballistic Banana]

Thanks but how do i do that?

BB

[FourWheelDrift]

Ballistic Banana said:

Thanks but how do i do that? BB

Unplug your C drive on the back will be some jumpers with a little black jumper connector on two of them (vertically) above which on the casing it will say master. Move the little black jumper onto the 2 connectors below the bit that says slave. Do the opposite for the other one and connect them back up (the D drive connected where your C drive was and C drive where your D drive was) If there isn't anything on the case of the drive to say whats settings are the master and slave you need to find your drive on the web for diagrams of what settings are master and what are slave.

>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Tuesday 7th June 15:55

[pdV6]

Ballistic Banana said:

Thanks but how do i do that? BB

Easy peasy. Look on the back of the drive(s) and there should be a row of small "jumper" switches, usually marked "MA", "SL", "CS"

If both drives are set to CS (Cable select) then simply unplug the IDE cable from both and plug it back in with the opposite plugs.

If one drive is MA and the other SL, leave the cable alone and switch the MA drive to SL and vice versa.

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>> Edited by pdV6 on Tuesday 7th June 15:56

[Ballistic Banana]

ok so looked at this and I have one hard drive an the pin is in master.

so why the c: and d:

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[pdV6]

Single physical disk partitioned into 2 logical drives.

Just need to re-size the D: partition to be a bit smaller and increase the C: partition.

>> Edited by pdV6 on Wednesday 8th June 17:32

[Ballistic Banana]

pdV6 said:

Single physical disk partitioned into 2 logical drives. Just need to re-size the D: partition to be a bit smaller and increase the C: partition. >> Edited by pdV6 on Wednesday 8th June 17:32

Cheers PDV I guess i do that under the disk managment somewhere.

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[Ballistic Banana]

Cant seem to find anywhere where I can more the space. Can see the drives in Disk Managment, getting frustrated as my C drive has no or very little disk space left... have tried deleting stuff but cant find anything that huge. 4GB i need to shift

Help PERLEASE

[john_p]

Basically it's not possible within Windows to resize two active partitions (your C and D drives) and keep their data.

If you want to merge C and D the easiest option is to reinstall Windows, and ask it to format the disk. Just ensure you have backed everything up beforehand as you will lose it otherwise!

You can buy some third party software to resize the partitions, but I never trust that sort of thing to get the job right after one screwup in the past, so end up backing up anyway - might as well reinstall it!


Windows should happily run in a 4GB drive, just make sure you put all your programs and data onto the D: drive (reinstall them if necessary, and maybe tell Windows to put the swap file on the D: drive instead - if it's coming up with memory issues - do this from Control Panel/System/Advanced/Performance Settings/Advanced/Change/set C to 0 and D to whatever C was set to)


>> Edited by john_p on Friday 10th June 02:04