Unable To Shrink C-Drive Partition - Windows XP Home Edition
by Kermit
(El Paso, Texas, U.S.A.)
Monte,
Hello again my friend. I am at my dauther-in-laws mom's house visiting for a while. As one of your most ardent students and an aging man, I just can't stop fixing computers and building them in my free time.
To the point,at the house there is a non used due to being tooo slow: HP Pavilion a819n computer.
Spects:
Asus motherboard with 4 sata ports 775 socket. PATA port also.
Intel P4 "Dual Core" 2.8ghz Processor. (we don't see many of these)
512MB DDR PC3200 Memeory in 2 chips for dual chanel. Room for 4.
Maxtor 200 gig Hardrive, SATA
(This hard dirve is new to me; uses the old 4 pin power plug, not the new sata black; vertical mounted on the face of the case. Has jumpers also.But used the standard SATA cable to the motherboard.)
DVD Bunner & DVD Rom
4 Card Readers,3 ea.Front USB2.0, a 1394 port.
XP Home Edition (not sure if 32 or 64 bit system)
Power Supply 250 Watts with, 2 SATA power plugs.
A very nice but very very dirty computer. Opened the case, found 10 lbs of dust balls, Never cleaned.(Taught the youngest dauther and mother how to clean with brush and caned air.)Turned it on, opened to the Admin user account no password, guest account turned off (good), antivirus Norton expired 10 different programs for downloading pictures and music,I-tunes, Frost Wire, Adobe Reader 7 & 8 (don't ask) XP SERVICE PACK 2 AND NO UP GRADES INSTALLED AT ALL.
15 year old girls first computer. Wireless Keyboard/mouse no adaptor (lost) Wired optical mouse attached.
Windows fire wall turned off same with Norton's personal firewall.
Plugged in my wireless broad band to a usb port and went to work.
Deleted the Norton's AV and fire wall, Installed Microsoft Security Essentials. 8 hours later Removed 42 Malware,trojan,and other virus 12 restarts to do this. installed all up grades, SP3. 78 windows security and other up grades.
Optomized the computer to a point.
But was unable to find the option to shrink the C-Drive in most windows XP Operating systems; to create a D-Drive for the temp, TMP and page files. I have come across this on other computers, and have used my Spotmu ERD to do so, with good results sometimes.
Did not go in to the recovery disk partition of the to see, if like Toshiba there is a program that allows you to do so. But Windows does have the application built in, have used it before.
Will install a 2nd 500 gig HD later as there is a bay and partition it if I can.
Installed 2 additional 512MZ Memory Chips for a total of 1.5 gigs
and a wired key board.
I know this is quite the report but is a classic; but am finding the same all the time, when people do not to learn how not to run their computer in the admin user account. The young lady who's computer it is had no idea as to how to set up the other user accounts. Had to show her how to set up the other user accounts.
Now I have 2 laptops and her new HP PC to debug.
Your Suggestions on shrinking the C-Drive please.
Thanks for the million dollar web site and your Question and Answers page again.
Kermit
