not knowing about computers...

Post by **callyspoy** » Mon May 19, 2008 11:44 pm

if a computer has a drive (C) and also a back up drive (Z), but (C) drive is only 4GB and backup is 26GB, can you change the percentages around?? because i just got the computer back from my brother in-law, and it now has this little set up on it, and i cant work out how i do anything! because the initial 4GB is used up already with systemy stuff! help me!!!

Post by **chickenjohn** » Tue May 20, 2008 7:15 am

That depends whether the C and Z are seperate physical hard drives or partitions of the same drive. If partitions, its possible to change the amount in each drive, i.e. take a few GB from Z and put it in C. However, there is a risk losing data doing this. I would leave it as it is, install new software on C and store your files on Z.

Just save everything to Z. If you need to allocate more to C then you will need software such as "partition Magic", but make sure you back up all your files you dont want to lose in case it all goes wrong.

Post by **Welung666** » Tue May 20, 2008 7:58 am

Buy another hard drive! You can get 80gb or 120gb hard drives for around £35 nowadays then save all your stuff to that. If ever C or Z went wrong all your stuff on the new drive and will be unaffected.

Post by **AndrewSkinner** » Tue May 20, 2008 10:15 am

What opperating system are you running? If you are running vista there is an inbuit program to help you change this.

Post by **Peetee** » Tue May 20, 2008 2:00 pm

Can Vista run?
Jog if your lucky.
Crawl more likely.
Ours moves a little bit quicker than the Indian sub-continent.

Post by **d_harris** » Wed May 21, 2008 8:29 am

And thats why you should use Linux!

On a serious note though. Yes, it *should* be possible to re-allocate space if you need to provided they are both on the same physical drive. I can have a look at some point if you want.....

Post by **callyspoy** » Wed May 21, 2008 3:34 pm

hi, yeah i will be buying an external hard drive in the next week or so, but this is the family comp, nothing really gets put on here, so i dont need that much memory in the back up. It is the same physical drive. so...how do you move memory over to C...??

Post by **chickenjohn** » Wed May 21, 2008 3:50 pm

Use a partition manager such as "Partition Magic" to move storage over to C. Its hard drive storage, btw not memory.

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