Hard Drive Management

[Glen]

Thought my laptop was about to melt down since I had only 20 megs of space left on my main disk. Partition Magic made my day. Enabled me to combine my two hard drives into one.

http://www.cnet.com/software/0-810404-1204-6914987.html?tag=st.sw.8888-1201.pdtl.810404-1204-6914987

[cj_rg2.0]

I love partition magic and have been using it for years. You may only need it once every few years but it is worth the cost when you do!

[Swope]

When I went to link it mainly references XP. I have Win98 on laptop and I am seriously
out of room. Will this help?

[Glen]

Swope. It works w/ 98, ME and so on. I just used it to combine my 2 HD. It does a lot of things that I don't quite understand yet. Perhaps CJ can explain further.

Here is more info on it:
http://www.cnet.com/software/0-810404-1205-6914987.html?tag=st.sw.810404-1204-6914987.rev-rev.810404-1205-6914987

[cj_rg2.0]

I even used it with my old OS/2 system. It should work with 98 (but I have no machines runing 98, I use NT4) but you need to have the free space to adjust. For example if you have a bunch of space on the D partition and want to shift it to C or E it will help. If your just full it won't help.

[Donnie]

To all who use Access and are quickly running out of space...be sure to periodicly run the Database Utility: "Compact and Repair Database", found under the Tools menu command.

If you are not aware of it, when you delete information out of a database on a regular basis, the database does not free up the space used by the deleted records until you run this utility. To demonstrate this to a class today I used HTR4MSA and showed them how quick a database can swell by importing the data. I then deleted it out and reimported it 3 times. I showed them the size of the data base to be 25 mgs. After compacting and repairing, the size of the database was 1.06 megs!

Just thought of this after reading Glen's message above!

BOL

[Glen]

Donnie,

Thanks for the reminder. The access problem sounds like the problem that I was having w/ my main disk. Crazy crap was going on. I would uninstall SW from my main disk, then reinstall it on my secondary disk. Only problem was that I would end up with less space on my main disk after I did it. It just kept mushrooming into a huge data mess. Why I would lose HD space on my primary after deleting files and then reinstalling on my secondary disk is beyond my comprehension. :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

Now instead of having only 20 megs of space left, I'm up to 4.5 gigs of space left thanks to PartitionMagic.