Win 2000 Bugs (Again) :)

Free space? Hmm... I don't think that's what you want. Free Space means that the drive is ready to put another partition in that space.

I remember you asking about formatting a while back, how long ago did you install this drive? It may be worth starting over if it wasn't too long ago. that'd be the easiest method -- reformat the drive using FAT32 or NTFS as the file-system, then reinstall. That's easier in the sense of you've got the tools and don't need to learn anything new.

Optionally, you can look for partitioning software. A good partition manager will let you resize current partitions without losing any data. What you'll need to do is convert your partition to either NTFS or FAT32 to allow you to make your C partition larger. You should probably just go ahead and make the whole drive one large partition. Partitions are what show up on your desktop as "drives". Partition Magic is one particular piece of software, but it's a bit expensive for such an infrequent task.

You could also just go ahead an make a new partition called "D" that acts as a seperate disk. This might seem like the simplest solution, but that 2GB "main" parition is gonna continue to cause you problems. Just not big enough, IMO.

 

I really appreciate all of your help Superfluous!

I'm not too good with all of this. How do I make a new partition called "D"?

 

Use "Disk Management" (system32/diskmgmt.msc) and you can create a new partition of NTFS or FAT32 type. I'm not sure the exact steps, so I won't go into them -- I don't wanna tell you the wrong thing when talking about formatting a disk drive. By default, I think it'll just call it "D" since it's the next partition after "C", but you can change that to anything, I think.

 

I appreciate you being straight with me Superflous !

But, I tried your suggestion, and I seemed to have tweaked it into working...

Thanks!

 

glad to have helped. which did you do, btw? Extra partition or resizing the first partition?

 

I spoke too soon!

I'm trying to work a couple of things out, but I'll let you know what happens ...

 

*Sigh* No one reads my posts anymore.

Anyway, for those that do, I don't know of any reason not to make the system partition on w2k bigger than 8GB. We have servers and workstations all over the place with 20-30GB, one partition drives. No problems.

I didn't read the link to the NTFS vs. FAT32, but I know NTFS, besides being secure, was developed for large disk capacities. Like TeraBytes.

 

Math, I do read, and really appreciate your comments . My problem is simple: I don’t have half a clue when doing any of this stuff.

While this is a poor example, here goes:

It’s like saying, Mike, to get from point “A” to point “B”, all you have to do is get into your car, take Tryon St for three miles, and you’re there.

While y’all are in your cars, driving down Tryon St, I am still looking for the ignition switch LOL!

In any event, getting back to your first suggestion, I did partition the rest of the drive. When I install software off of a CD, I can easily specify the path, and it works.

When I try to download software off of the web, I specify the path, but the system still ties the (D) drive with the (C) drive. No matter what I do, it won’t work.

I’m gonna mess with it again, and hopefully, get it to work…

 

Well, I appreciate that, but it wasn't you I was really hinting at.

I don't get the thing about downloading off the web. Are you downloading a file to the drive, or are you running an install from a website (like running the install of a CD)?

 

Downloading a file to the drive. It doesn't want to accept the path into the new portion of the drive.

Then, if and when I do save the application (into the new portion of the drive), it isn't easy to retrieve. And the applications that I have downloaded don't work.

I'd like to reformat the C drive, but don't want to lose all of the work that I have done this far (3 days to make everything fully compatible).

Most of the applications/software/drivers are much too large to fit onto a floppy (and, for the same reason, I can't email them to myself).

I'd like to transfer them to CD, but have tried several different things, and can't find/can't write onto the CD.

Thanks for taking the time to help me with this Math ...