My harddrive is fairly new it's liike 74.0G. Someone reinstalled Windows XP and partitioned it wrong or something.? Now my C drive is like 2.0G and my E? drive is like 72.0G??? PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!
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Find a program called Partition Magic.  It will let you re-allocate your E drive to make your C drive bigger.  The other option is to reinstall windows again and partition right this time.
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format your c drive and do a clean installation of XP... make sure you have the drivers for your monitor...
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Please don't use partition magic. !!!\nThat is known to ruin your scenario.\n\nFirst of all, from my understandiing, you previously had 1 Harddrive and you partitioned it in 2 areas WHILE installing.\n\n- Okay, if you only have one harddrive in your pc, I recommend you to leave it that way, cause what if your computer doesn't work anymore(your windows/linux) messes up. You could always place your important files on the second harddrive and reformat the first hardrive if you ever need. That will reduce problems.\n\n- But assuming you still want to merge C and D, I recommend formatting both harddrives . Sorry mate, thats the only secure way. While reinstalling your operating system, you could have the option of making it partions (c and d or more) or leave it as one full hardrive (by deleting partition from d)\n\n- If you use partition magic, 3 out of 2 people fail. Partition Magic doesn't know pretty well how to retreat the harddrives, it will become slower. It is not simply saying to move the pointer of the 2nd hd to the 1st. They are completly different set of pointers. On the minimum case Partition Magic will work, but your taking risks.\n\nSo what do I recommend? Backup your files to somewhere, and restore them after your fresh install.\n\nOr you have two separate harddrives that you want to make into 1 big harddrive.\n- You need to use a Raid Controller to merge both harddrives into one big driver. Search for RAID5. And follow instructions there.
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If installing XP this hapends-probably it`s and bad media (disc) oryou have an memory problem (you say D:....-mostly used letter for CD/DVD drives) if while booting intalled OS then you have acidentaly deleted or uninstalled that file->run XP instalation from the begining and when prompted select "Repar" if this doesent help Reinstall fresh XP ,but backup your files first...
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Good day. No cds? not even the windows XP Setup cd? cause u can delete all partitions, format and reinstall windows. The only thing i can think is to take the hard drive out of the laptop and put it on another computer as a secondary disk. Then it will come up on the My computer folder as a D or E drive then u format the drive. When u done, put it back on the laptop. Laterz.
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Do not delete the C drive. Use this drive to store files.\n\nIf you want you can reinstall XP, but that is a different situation.
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What Operating System is your old hard drive running?  It's possible that you might get away with it if you're running Windows 98 or even ME.  However, XP will not run.  XP checks for hardware changes, and too many changes will cause XP to fail at boot (as a security/piracy measure).  \n\nThe best thing to do is to plug it in and try.  Nothing to lose.  However, if you're running XP on your old drive, it's not worth the time.  A completely new system will certainly not boot.
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if you are runnin windows xp, dos does not exist. This is why you are having such a hard time. You will need to boot from the xp cd. During the setup process you will be giving the opportunity to reformat. \n\nIf by chance the previous OS was Xp and you are trying to install 95, 98, or ME and this is where you are having issues with reformating your drive that is because XP typically is setup to partition the disk with NTFS. NTFS is not supported in 95, 98, or me. You can however use your XP disk to put the format of your C: drive back to FAT32 with your XP disk and then install.\n\nBest of luck.
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You need to defrag the hard drive and do a disk clean up.\n\nGo to> Start, Click on Programs, go to> Accessorys, Click on tools link, go to Defrag. run a check on the C:Drive.\nAfter that do a disk clean up same place.
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you could just throw in a windows xp cd and delete the partitions\nthen format it back to ntfs
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Make sure your old drive does not have any jumpers set to "Master"...make it a cable select or slave, and also make sure your new XP drive is first on the ribbon so it boots and not your old win 98
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If you are completely ignorant then you may want to take it to a shop and get it fixed. Generally you will need a compatible 80 Gb HDD drive, carefully unscrew and remove your old drive and replace it with the new one, if you have the back up system restore disks then you can use them or better still if you have the XP install disks/ CDs  then you run them. If you have neither then you may have to contact Gateway if its still under warranty or buy a new Windows if its not under warranty
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The optimum thing to do would be to swap the drives and re-install windows on the 80 gig.  But unfortunately thats a lot of work as everything will have to be re-installed.\n\nYour only other option would be to move as much as possible over to your drive D:. Data, files, anything you can. You won't be able to move your programs to D: unless you uninstall them from C: and re-install them on D:.\n\nOne thing you can do... if you have a lot of files in your My Documents folder is re-locate it to the D: drive.  To do this, just right-click on the "My Documents" folder on your desktop and hit "Properties" There will be a button that says "Move". Click on it and move it to say "D:&#92; My Documents".  It will even move all the files over for you. This should free up quite a bit of space.\n\nIf your C: drive is full, you can always delete some of the Windows Garbage files... here's a list of stuff you can safely delete...\n\nIn C:&#92; Windows... Any folder at the top that starts with "$" before it. Those are left-over Windows Update folders and can be safely deleted.\n\nAnything in C:&#92; Documents and Settings&#92; {username}&#92; Local Settings&#92; History&#92;\n\nAnything in C:&#92; Documents and Settings&#92; {username}&#92; Local Settings&#92; Temp&#92;\n\nAnything in C:&#92; Documents and Settings&#92; {username}&#92; Local Settings&#92; Temporary Internet Files&#92; \n\nYou can also move your windows page file over to D:. This is actually recommended by Microsoft for systems with more than one hard drive.\n\nTo do this Hit your Start button, Settings, Control Panel, System. Hit the Advanced Tab, then the Settings button under "Performance", then the Advanced Tab again, then the Change button.\n\nSelect drive C: in the list at the top, select the "No Paging File" radio button and hit the "Set" button.\n\nThen select drive D: in the list, select the "System managed Size" radio button, and hit "Set" again. Hit OK three times and re-boot the PC.\n\nWhen it comes back to your desktop, use Windows Explorer to browse to drive C: and delete the page file if its there. (It'll let you delete it now. You may have to turn on "Show protected operating system files" in Folder Options/View to see it.)\n\nThat should at least get you started...
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Well, basically what he said is true, however, there may be a workaround solution.  Download (it's free), Partition Logic (NOT Partition Magic), http://partitionlogic.org.uk/ create a large enough partition for your music (say 15GB just to be safe).  Once you have the partition setup boot back into Windows (the tool runs separate of Windows so you have to boot from the CD... instructions are on the site).  Within Windows move all your music over to the new Partition.  Now, be VERY careful with the reinstall, make absolutely sure you tell it to install Windows on the C: drive, your new Partition will have another letter.  I think the Windows installer should be able to leave your partition alone and reinstall XP on the primary partition leaving your music intact.\n\nReparining a Windows XP installation is NOT nearly as good as reinstalling it.  I'd never ever ever repair a Windows XP installation, that shouldn't even be an option.  It can still leave you with a corrupted install (this is what Microsoft repair tools get you).  I wouldn't repair it.
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If you upgrade with files in the recycling bin then they will be over written.\n\nTake them out of the trash and move them to the root (C:/ ) directory. Install XP over top of 98SE. But make sure you DON'T choose the option to format your C: Drive and they will still be there.\n\nOnly problem I see is if your old computer had 98 on it then it's prolly too old to run XP. Look for something a lil newer.
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What I would do is re-install Windows and all your software on the new HD and slave your current crashed HD without formatting see if you can recover any data from it.  Here are instructions on HD installation. http://www.basichardware.com/HowTo_Install_Hard_Drive.html
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If you formatted your PC, this means you completely erased your hard drive. Your ONLY choice at this point is to reinstall windows from your original install CD. \n\nBuy the way, the format erased ALL your files (docs, photos, music, etc)\n\nSorry to break it to you this way...I feel for you...