On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:21:25 +0100, "DL" address@invalid wrote:

Use a third party application, eg Partition Magic to combine what was D to
C, thereby removing the D partition.


If he simply does that, all his programs, which are installed on D:
will fail to work, because they will be on C: and Windows expects to
find them on D:

He would also have to either try one of the programs that search out
and try to change all those many references from D: to C:, or else
uninstall, then reinstall the programs.

My experience with programs that look for and change the references
has been less than satisfactory, and I don't recommend them. The best
way to do this is to uninstall and reinstall.

His easiest course of action at this point, by far, would be to use a
third-party program to make D: smaller and C: bigger. However, before
using such a program and taking such a big step--either your way or
mine--he should first be sure he has a current backup of anything he
can't afford to lose. Although there's no reason to expect a problem,
things *can* go wrong.

By the way, Pradeep should note that programs should normally be
installed on the same partition as \Windows. Although some people
install them on a different partition because they think that they are
protected there, and won't be lost if Windows ever has to be
reinstalled, this is *not* correct. If Windows is reinstalled, all the
many references to the program within it are lost. The programs (all
except for an occasional small one) have to be reinstalled too.

You can read my advice on partitioning in the article "Understanding
Disk Partitioning" at
http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=326


Your drive is too small to bother about partitioning

"Pradeep" wrote in message
...
Iam sorry Nonny,

I wanted to say that Drive D has 60 GB free space.

Thanks,

Pradeep



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