I woke up yesterday to not only the whole debacle on the East Coast but a notice on my computer that drive C was full.
I deleted all my temporary files and am working fine so far. Though when checking out drive space, I see I only have about 154MB left, so I won’t be okay for long. I do, however, have 2gig in drive D…nothing in there at all.
What’s the point of this? How do I use that space? What should I put in there? Is this just a stupid ploy to get me to think I’ve used up all my space, hopefully not check and just buy a new computer? What gives?
Sue
PS Windows 98, 4 GB total, Pentium III, 128 MB RAM
easiest way is to set your swap file to your D: drive
rt click my computer>properties>performance>Virtual Mem
go to ‘let me mannage’ set the drive to D
press OK , restart
as to why you have a d: part.? I don’t knwo it makes reformatting easier and conserves some space though
Some software will not operate properly if it is installed on the same partion as the OS. You can also install or save anything new to the D: drive.
Nope…this isn’t a stupid ploy to trick computer users (although it does tend to confuse a fair number of people). Partitions on your harddrive are just like partitions in a room. They divide the space up into separate areas. The point of doing this is usually so you can have an easier time reloading your software without losing all of your data.
For example, you would install your operating system (Windows 98 in your case) and any programs to your C: drive. You would save all of your data to your D: drive. Now, if you ever need to rebuild your PC because Windows is flaking out on you badly (as happens eventually with 95 and 98) you don’t need to worry about losing all of your data or trying to save all of your data to floppy disks (shudder), tape or CD. Usually, during a full re-build of your system, the C: partition gets formatted or overwritten which will destroy anything currently there. If your data is sitting out on D: then you don’t have to worry. Only your C: partition gets hit in this case leaving D: well enough alone.
To use that space simply save to it as you would the C: drive. Whenever you save something you should see somewhere in the save window a path that points to where you are saving that file (i.e. C:\MY DOCUMENTS\SUE). You could just as easily create a directory on D: and save there (i.e. D:\DOWNLOAD). NOTE: Make sure the directory exists before trying to save there or you’ll get an error message.
If this really annoys you it is possible to get rid of the D: partition and add it to an existing C: partition (so instead of having 2 drives of 2 GB you get one drive of 4 GB). However, this process is not supported natively by Windows 98 and requires purchase of third party software to achieve (Partition Magic is probably the best for this). If you ever find yourself rebuilding your PC anyway you can blow away both partitions and recreate them as one partition at that time but this WILL destroy ALL data (BOTH partitions) on your computer. Don’t go there unless you’re very sure of what you want to do.