Lets take a look at what type of drives you have, IDE drives with the flat
wide cables on them will need to be addressed. and the proper type
purchased. the thin flat cable drives are SATA drives and addressing is not
necessary.
1) the drive currently assigned as drive C is the one running out of space.
Mark it drive C and write down the drive manufacturer and size.
The data drive D, remove it and mark it as drive D using a sharpie.
Take the new drive and install it in the drive D slot. Mark it New C drive.
marking the drives allows for identification should they get mixed up.
Boot Acronis from the CD drive select Utilities and clone drive. It will
prompt you for a source drive and target drive.
The source drive will be the current C drive (example: manufacturer and size
(IE: Seagate 120 gb or whatever)
The target drive will be the new Drive ( manufacturer and size)
Select proportional size. when all is double checked select next. and allow
drive (old C) to clone to new drive.
You should get a message clone of drive completed.
Remove old drive c: and install New Drive C in its place.
Install drive D back into Drive d slot and connect as it was.
remove the Acronis cd and reboot.....
System will boot as it did before however you will now have more space
available...
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-----Original Message-----
From: John H
Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2013 8:10 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] .Drive C is Low on space
Can I get:
(1) a new larger drive, remove the present drive in the "D" slot and place
the new larger drive in the "D" slot;
(2) then clone the "small 'C' drive," using Acronis to that "D" drive;
(3) then remove the "present 'C' drive" and put the "D" drive with the
cloned "C" drive on it in the slot in place of the the small "C" drive and
expect it to boot up and work as the "C" drive is now doing and
(4) put the original "D" drive back in the "D" slot and expect it to work
as before? In this case I would not have to move files.
Can I mess up my computer in doing this? My local computer advisor does
not seem to know about this. I know a little about assembling computers but
not much about how they work.
Thank you for your advice. John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fran Lumb" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] .Drive C is Low on space
It has been my experience if it is low to use a program like Acronis and
clone the drive to a larger drive. Drives are cheap and the time it takes to
do is minimal compared to a band-aid fix of moving stuff around.
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 3, 2013, at 6:39 PM, John H <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> (1) I have two hard drives on my computer. I am using Windows Vista. The
> "C" drive is smaller and contains most of the programs. "C" is running
> low on space and I would like to transfer some stuff to the "D" (larger)
> drive. I use Windows Mail. Can I transfer the mail files to "D" and
> still make them available? If I transfer programs to "D" will they still
> work? Thank you for you advice.
> (2) I make DVDs using Pinnacle Studio. I wind up with some titles in the
> DVD's folders but when I try to open them I get an icon consisting of a
> small house with an overlay of circle and slash (the "do not" symbol) and
> I cannot open them. Can you tell me what these are or how they work?
>
> Thank you very much.
> JOHN
>
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