Re: Increse size of C Drive



Howard Neil wrote:
> A little advice, please.
>
> I would like to increase the size of my C Drive (bootable). I have
> plenty of room on my hard drive (180GB, partitioned into 5 drives) and
> am running Windows XP. C drive is currently just under 8GB but files
> in the recycle bin etc keep causing a lack of space on this one
> drive. I would like to increase the size of C drive but, when I try
> to go larger than 8GB, Partition Magic warns "This partition crosses
> the 1024 cylinder boundary and may not be bootable".
>
> I do not wish to take the risk of not being able to boot up. Is there
> anything else I can do to increase the space in C drive (other than
> deleting Windows <g>)?

Move the page file , my documents and recycle bin to D:


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