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TweetHere is my dilema...my pc has 2 hard drives. A c drive and a d drive....the c drive is only 15gb, and is full...the d/drive is 40gb and is amost empty. Everything my wife installs was put on the c drive.
What i need is to move everything but the operating system and a few other things to the d drive. I started moving all the program files over, but most of them start running when the compute starts so it wont let me...it says the programs are in use by another user or program...any way to do this...i am frustrated. Please help!!

Tweetyou can probably start it in safe mode and then transfer the program files over. usually you can start in safemode by turning the power on and pressing f8 or f12 i belive when the pc flashes that black screen on startup, then select boot in safemode.

if not when your pc is on, do ctrl+alt+del go to applications and close everything there, also close all tasks in the taskbar on the bottom right of your screen, then try the transfer

Tweetyou can't simply move applications over. the references to where they are located (i.e. the registry) will still point to its original location. Youll start getting all sorts of errors when the application at startup is looking for c:\program files\program\program.exe and it now lives in d:\

What you want to move over to the d:\ driver are your user files. Your MP3 files, your documents, your porno movie files, that stuff. Most of that stuff lives in My Documents somewhere. You're safer moving My Documents folder to D than programs from Program Files. If you absolutely have to move program files from c to do, uninstall them and when you reinstall, specify D as the drive to install. This is probably not what you wanted to hear but... I wouldnt steer you wrong.

Tweet^^ this is true, was in a rush, my bad

Tweetyeah, all the program files need moved.....this is the stupidest thing i ever saw hving the hard drive formated like this...it pisses me off...

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Originally Posted by pigmeat

yeah, all the program files need moved.....this is the stupidest thing i ever saw hving the hard drive formated like this...it pisses me off...

I had the same problem once. I did what fit2belarge said. Uninstalled and reinstalled everything and moved all my media over to the d drive. Pain in the ass.

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Originally Posted by Fit2bLarge

you can't simply move applications over. the references to where they are located (i.e. the registry) will still point to its original location. Youll start getting all sorts of errors when the application at startup is looking for c:\program files\program\program.exe and it now lives in d:\

What you want to move over to the d:\ driver are your user files. Your MP3 files, your documents, your porno movie files, that stuff. Most of that stuff lives in My Documents somewhere. You're safer moving My Documents folder to D than programs from Program Files. If you absolutely have to move program files from c to do, uninstall them and when you reinstall, specify D as the drive to install. This is probably not what you wanted to hear but... I wouldnt steer you wrong.

Exactly!

Tweetcan i just delete them to the recycle bin from add/remove programs in control panel, and rall them into d/drive, or do i need to back everything up onto disk and reinstall

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Originally Posted by pigmeat

can i just delete them to the recycle bin from add/remove programs in control panel, and rall them into d/drive, or do i need to back everything up onto disk and reinstall

if you dont have the application cd's, zips or executables, then I wouldnt uninstall. The truth is that most applications take very very little space, its your user files that take up space.

yeah, partitioning on big drives is a pain. fat32/ntfs sucks

what do you do mostly on that PC? why dont you do what I said, move the MP3s, videos, documents etc over to D:/ ?