Me = not teh smart

[MAME]

I thought I'd be clever and partition my hard drive so that I could reinstall windows without loosing program files and documents and such. I gave windows xp 1.5 gigs for just window files but it's reaching the point where it needs more. Can I merge 2 partitions on the same hard drive and forget about doing the windows only partition?

 

[Ryan]

Yea, you're really not smart, using the wrong forum and all.

 

[Rob9874]

Won't XP do it?

 

[Zugzwang152]

you would have to reinstall programs anyway, if they utilize the windows registry. 😛

 

[Jugernot]

Originally posted by: MAME
I thought I'd be clever and partition my hard drive so that I could reinstall windows without loosing program files and documents and such. I gave windows xp 1.5 gigs for just window files but it's reaching the point where it needs more. Can I merge 2 partitions on the same hard drive and forget about doing the windows only partition?

1.5gigs for windows? Yep... that was dumb. 🙂

No you can't combine two partitions, though you can delete a partition and resize the system part using Partition Magic or something similar.

 

[MAME]

actually some programs won't really freak out with the registry cleaned or so I've been told. But yeah, it wasn't a good idea.
So nothing merges them then?

 

[crisp82]

Partition Magic will. Version 7 and up me thinks

 

[trek]

well you could shrink the one with your docs and programs then make your xp partition bigger

 

[0roo0roo]

i use 5-7GB for windows partition. basic office appz/windows xp sp1 turns into a 600~mb ghost image if you turn off hibernation.

1.5 is barely scraping by. it would sorta work. just install all games and extra stuff to another partition. but i guess windows will bloat a bit so its still on the edge. move your swap file to another partition. you'd have to keep your ghost image as clean windows with office only obviously.

 

[LS20]

partition magic will do the job

 

[Palek]

Me = not teh smart

*** Confirmed !!! *** 😉
Windows XP will chew up 1.5 in no time. I suggest at least 7 GB for your OS partition. Do what he

Originally posted by: trek8900
well you could shrink the one with your docs and programs then make your xp partition bigger

and he

Originally posted by: LS20
partition magic will do the job

suggested.

 

[EyeMWing]

You need at least a 10gb allocation for WinXP. Any less is suicide.

My 80 gig boot drive is 10/20/50 OS/Apps/Data. All 3 are full.

Keep in mind that everything on your desktop and everything resident in 'My Documents' is stored on C.