Hard Drive is Gettin Too Big

[UserFriendly]

okay dont know alot about my computer: maxtor 6b200p0 hard drive windows xp prof customized destop.
the hard drive is partitioned into four logical disk (i believe: F, G, H, I 30 gigs each); C: primary (10gig). My primary disk is almost full and i dont know how or where to begin tapping into the other logical disks for more needed space. Does window automatically transfer the next stored file to the new drive: F once the primary disk is full? if not, How do I extend my C: disk over to use avaliable space on the logical disks? And do i need to format the next available disk: F first?

[Will.Spencer]

Originally Posted by UserFriendly

the hard drive is partitioned into four logical disk (i believe: F, G, H, I 30 gigs each); C: primary (10gig).

Who did that? Do you have any idea why they did that?

Can you have them flogged? :p

Originally Posted by UserFriendly

My primary disk is almost full and i dont know how or where to begin tapping into the other logical disks for more needed space.

• When you install applications, tell them to install to F:, G:, H:, or I:.
• When you save files, save them to F:, G:, H:, or I:.

Originally Posted by UserFriendly

Does window automatically transfer the next stored file to the new drive: F once the primary disk is full?

Nope. You have to manually tell each application where to store data.

Originally Posted by UserFriendly

How do I extend my C: disk over to use avaliable space on the logical disks?

You can download and run one of the pieces of free partition software to merge all of your hard disk partitions into one large C:.

Before you do this, you should definitely back up your PC.

Originally Posted by UserFriendly

And do i need to format the next available disk: F first?

I would bet that your F: is already formatted. If you can save a file to F:, it is already formatted.

[UserFriendly]

No, i cannot frog the person who install my computer nor can i find him but thank you for your quick response time to my post. ive decided to stick with changing how applications are stored. But i am concerned about moving some files from drive C: to the other disk: Will this affect how some apps. are run on the computer say firefox? or worst window xp files? though i am assured that the boot section is hidden from me right?

[Will.Spencer]

When moving data, you just have to tell the application where you moved the data.

One disk hog is the web browser cache. The cache stores recently viewed web content. Cashing web content significantly improves Internet performance. However, it also takes up disk space.

Changing the location of the cache in Firefox is considerably more difficult than performing the same task in Internet Explorer.

First, you should clear the current cache via Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> Clear.

Then, you have to add the following code to your user.js preferences file:

// Path to Cache folder:
user_pref("browser.cache.disk.parent_directory","F:\\CACHE");

This example will put your cache data into the F:\CACHE directory.

This is all made much more complex by the fact that the user.js file does not exist by default and by the horrible way that Microsoft Windows hides the directory where this file is stored.

Firefox stores this file in the user profile directory. That's a Microsoft standard. The trouble is that the user profile directory is in a different location in different versions of Windows.

On Windows XP/2000, the path to the user profile directory is usually
C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\, where xxxxxxxx is a random string of 8 characters.

This is about as bad as it gets as far as moving data to new partitions. For most applications, you can make these changes from the GUI's.