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Runnig out of storage

I am at a Windows 2000 server which was setup with only 4 gigs on the C drive and which is partitioned
but as I upgrade service packs and antivirus I am running out of room
is there a way to change the location where these programs will reside or what else can I do without reinstalling the OS?

Thanks

MikeMiller

You can go into your system settings and set the Virtual Memory to only use space on a different hard drive, if there is a spare on in the computer. That will save up to 1gb.

Otherwise, you can get a new bigger hard drive and use a program like ghost to copy everything over and then physically replace the drive so you have more room.

Get a new drive... 4gb is way too little.

mike

MikeMiller

More suggestions:
Go into add/remove programs and remove all the Windows Components you don't use, and then remove all the programs you don't use.

In explorer, delete everyting in the C:\temp and C:\windows\temp folders.

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rustyrpage

dev8 is correct assuming that the c drive is indeed a partition. A 4gb system partition for Windows 2000 is not going to cut it. If you have enough room on the physical drive that C resides on, use partition magic (or something similar) to shrink one partition with room & grow the system partition. This may take a LONG time, but the results will be worth it. I would recommend at least 6gb for the system partition (that way you can defrag etc)

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John M

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If I change my virtual page file to the D drive is there a posbillty it can crash the server?

dev8

No this would not crash the server. This would also free up space on your C drive.

rustyrpage

But the problem still remains that you only have 4gb on your system partition...that is much too little space to have.

Are you able to re-size partitions to increase this or not?

John M

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Which program should I use to re-size my partition? I do have a empty d: drive which
has another 4 gis of space.

rustyrpage

Partition Magic should do the trick...and since it is the D: drive, you could easily delete that partition & then expand the C: drive another 4 gig...which should suffice.