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Old Oct 20, 2004 | 09:00 PM
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Originally Posted by SinisterCRX
Why can't you move stuff? I'm rockin the 3 gigger and 10 gigger, i just install everything on the 10 and it works fine.
Everything automatically gets installed on the 2 gigger and it won't let me move stuff out.

Well got partition magic to work but for some reason it only let me increase D drive by 500 megs for some reason. I have more than enough space on C to spare. Ah well 500 more is better than nothing.

P.S- My damn turbo install wasn't as hard as making one damn drive bigger. I really do suck at computers.
Old Oct 20, 2004 | 09:01 PM
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Most programs will work if you just cut and paste, try it, make a folder on your other drive called "program files".
Old Oct 20, 2004 | 09:09 PM
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Originally Posted by SinisterCRX
Most programs will work if you just cut and paste, try it, make a folder on your other drive called "program files".
I'll remember this if I run out of space again. Can always count on hmt to come through for me.
Old Oct 20, 2004 | 09:19 PM
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Originally Posted by SinisterCRX
Most programs will work if you just cut and paste, try it, make a folder on your other drive called "program files".
hm.. that depends. most of the programs dont care. but most of the programs that make registry entries ave to be in their proper place or else... poop.

what os do you have btw
Old Oct 20, 2004 | 09:22 PM
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I have XP. I did the whole copy/paste a few times in ME too.
Old Oct 20, 2004 | 11:15 PM
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Here is a tip: Always create a 5 gig partition for your OS and NEVER install any programs to it. That way, if it gets hosed, you can re-install your OS and restore your registry files and all the programs that are on another drive will work.

Here is what I do and it works great. I use 2 removable drive racks. I label the racks with the OS that's on them. I have 3 Win2000,2 XP, 1 Linux,1 OpenBSD and a win9x drive floating around somewhere. Each one is configured for a specific purpose. Like gaming, programming, graphic design, etc. The OS is fully optimised for what I need to do with it so no extra junk is on the drive . The purpose of the second drive is to store the ghost images of all the other drives which gets updated overnight when there is no disk activity. All of the programs are installed on this drive as well. I've even mirrored that drive to a stationary one in the computer before, but that was overkill and isn't necessary. This allows me to swap drives into different computers in about 1 minute (the time it takes to locate the key and reboot)
Old Oct 21, 2004 | 04:28 AM
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^^^^^^ geez, and i thought i was bad. i have two hard drives on my desktop pc. on them, i run windows xp and freebsd on the first drive, and gentoo linux on the second. i have the drives partitioned and sliced(in the case of freebsd) for best performance. on my laptop i run windows xp and gentoo on a single drive.

qtparted, which can be found on any of the newer knoppix cd's, is a free partition management utility. it works great if you need to resize a partition. it understands unix, linux, and windows partitions.
Old Oct 21, 2004 | 02:06 PM
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Hard drives are cheap; buy a 120 gig for $100 and call it a day.
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