Well here it is Thursday and I have not posted a thing on this blog. So guess that I had better get to work been spend the daylight hours at my Union Shipping hall looking for a ship (job).
Why I could not shrink the C-Drive on XP Home Edition. But was able to do so using the Disk Manager in Windows Vista.
One may ask how do you do this and where is the Disk manager so I will walk you through the steps to do so in Vista. My Computer -right click- list opens-left click Manage- new window opens. Find Disk Manager- new window showing all partitions. in open area or white area of the C-Drive right click- under options click re size partition- shrink partition
At this point I want you to understand that you can only shrink or reduce the partition to the point that you reach one of the following: the page file; the temp file; and last the unmovable files. And you want to attempt to do so only after defraging the drive.
After you create your new partition or 2 you can then move the following files to the new partition drives. Temp, TMP, Page Files and in Internet Explorer Options, the temp folder under setting. after reading how to do so in Self Computer Repair, Unleashed. (Click on the picture of the book to get your own copy on the right side of this blog page.)
By now you are asking when is he going to get to the point where he tells me how to shrink that C-Drive to create these new partitions.
I have these ERD also know as bootable disks that are pre Operating System, that you can set up your BIOS in the Boot Section to Boot the DVD/CD Rom before the Hard drive so that you can boot from the disk. This is a DOS system BUT all that is on the disk.
The one I used is "Powersuite Boot Care 2009 Edition". Was unable to shrink or resize the C-Drive using the installed Powersuite Wincare 2010 as it works from an active Operating System. Nor was I able to do so with my newly downloaded copy of Acronis Disk Director or their True Image Program.
I had not created the bootable disk for Acronis at this time but have done so since writing my last post in fact that is why I have not made any post lately is because I have been trying to make a number of different bootable disks. As well as some Bootable Flash Drives. Plan on a Bootable USB Hard Drive soon also.
Link: spotmau.com; this will take you to the site. Now you can get the package for a lower price if you enter the same in a web browser. From past experience you ca n clean a little too much out of your Registry Files with this disk and the system will not boot if you do. It is a very powerful disk, makes you a dangerous person around a computer. Same thing when optimizing the Services do too much and something won't work.
Link: Acronis.com/True_Image 2011; this a very powerful disk that allows you to make clones of your operating system and if used in conjunction with their Disk Director 11 for 2011 you can have a very interesting package for maintaining your computer....
link:Acronis disk director 11 2011;
I have made a Bootable CD of the Linux boot program for this combining the True image and Disk Director and boot file on the disk and I choose to use the windows PE environment as apposed to the Linux due to familiarity.
Am now in the process of creating the Windows version of the same but it is a bit more complicated to do so
needs DVD's to create a boot disk. Dang it I forgot to buy the DVD's.
End of the post trust you as like myself have learned something new about your computer.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Unable To Shrink C-Drive, Winows XP SP3. Why?
Some back ground information. I have been working to restore a computer at the house I am visiting at for a while. After getting most of the bugs out and connecting the computer to the wifi vial a USB adaptor I was able to complete most of the Optimization of the computer.
But could not move the Temp, TMP, Page Files and the Internet Explorer, Temp files off the C- Drive, as there was but 2 partition's D: The Recovery Disk or Restore disk, then the C-Drive all on what is suppose to be a 200gig SATA hard drive.
You, ask why would I want to do this; why would I want temp., files stashed all over my C- Drive. Causing the drive to fragment this is as I understand it the leading cause of that feared task: WHY, we Defrag!!
Now where do you think I like to put those temp files. ( Note: for every user account you have on your computer you need move the TEMP Internet flies to a different drive. Will not happen by themselves.) On the D: Data: Drive. Doing so speeds up the computer.
Why the page file for the same reason. Think of this, if your computer has more than 2 gigs of memory then you have to have a D-Drive as Windows recommends that your page file not be larger than 2 gigs. Thus for every 2 gigs of memory you need another drive partition for the page file. This is the blight of computers with 3 or less gigs of memory. As the hard drives now are large in capacity and memory is less that 3 gigs.
Base formula is that the page file should be 1.5 time larger than total memory. Do your math.
In XP the system would work fine with 512MHz. of memory 1-3 gigs even faster as memory other than over clocking is what speed up a computer. The page file(s) has to be equal if not greater.
Here is the dumb question what in blue blazes is the page file. It is a file on your hard drive or partitions of your hard drive(s) that the computer uses to dump files when you change the video image or when you open a new window or program.
Hay, not bad for a self taught computer tech next month will be 4 years since I bought my first one.
Back to the title of this post. There is a windows program that I have used in the past to shrink the C-Drive or operation system drive after I defragment the drive. Why? Good question there is absolutely no reason in the world to have a 200; 320; 500gig. hard drive, the more data and programs you add the more memory you use the more temp files you create the slower your computer gets.
For the OS to search for a file in one 50mb on a hard drive that has 200 gigs of used space on a 320 hard drive takes a long time. Particularly if, if is a spread sheet. Or your income tax return that you are waiting for at H&R Block. ( Do my taxes there I like them.)
Did you know that you cannot defrag, a drive that has less that 15% free space? Nope cannot be done.
Yes I know that the programs automatically delete all temp files after you close the window. NOT! NOT!
Who knows what evil lurks within your computer? The Shadow knows and he is the man who taught me what I know well most of it.....
Well I spent some time looking for it and could not find it in XP but I know that I have used it on my own computer very successfully to that 300 gig partition down to 40. that is about the size you need for vista.Giving me room to create 2 more primary drives. Data & Misc/Music and a logical drive for my back-ups. Did so on my Nieces computer, her dad's on 6 laptops. Boy howdy did this stump me.
Went to DIY-computer-repair.com; my mentor's website. Into "Questions & Answers" and posted the same as the title of this article. Received a reply with in 5 hours. Suggested that I try a couple of things; you can read his reply and my additional remarks for yourself.
While in personal email with Mr. Russell I realized that it was on windows "Vista" that I had used the program to shrink that big hard drive.
Hay check it out this is one of the good things about "Vista" the Dog, Operating System.
Trust that you learned something like I did in my next post I will continue with article 2 in this series.
But could not move the Temp, TMP, Page Files and the Internet Explorer, Temp files off the C- Drive, as there was but 2 partition's D: The Recovery Disk or Restore disk, then the C-Drive all on what is suppose to be a 200gig SATA hard drive.
You, ask why would I want to do this; why would I want temp., files stashed all over my C- Drive. Causing the drive to fragment this is as I understand it the leading cause of that feared task: WHY, we Defrag!!
Now where do you think I like to put those temp files. ( Note: for every user account you have on your computer you need move the TEMP Internet flies to a different drive. Will not happen by themselves.) On the D: Data: Drive. Doing so speeds up the computer.
Why the page file for the same reason. Think of this, if your computer has more than 2 gigs of memory then you have to have a D-Drive as Windows recommends that your page file not be larger than 2 gigs. Thus for every 2 gigs of memory you need another drive partition for the page file. This is the blight of computers with 3 or less gigs of memory. As the hard drives now are large in capacity and memory is less that 3 gigs.
Base formula is that the page file should be 1.5 time larger than total memory. Do your math.
In XP the system would work fine with 512MHz. of memory 1-3 gigs even faster as memory other than over clocking is what speed up a computer. The page file(s) has to be equal if not greater.
Here is the dumb question what in blue blazes is the page file. It is a file on your hard drive or partitions of your hard drive(s) that the computer uses to dump files when you change the video image or when you open a new window or program.
Hay, not bad for a self taught computer tech next month will be 4 years since I bought my first one.
Back to the title of this post. There is a windows program that I have used in the past to shrink the C-Drive or operation system drive after I defragment the drive. Why? Good question there is absolutely no reason in the world to have a 200; 320; 500gig. hard drive, the more data and programs you add the more memory you use the more temp files you create the slower your computer gets.
For the OS to search for a file in one 50mb on a hard drive that has 200 gigs of used space on a 320 hard drive takes a long time. Particularly if, if is a spread sheet. Or your income tax return that you are waiting for at H&R Block. ( Do my taxes there I like them.)
Did you know that you cannot defrag, a drive that has less that 15% free space? Nope cannot be done.
Yes I know that the programs automatically delete all temp files after you close the window. NOT! NOT!
Who knows what evil lurks within your computer? The Shadow knows and he is the man who taught me what I know well most of it.....
Well I spent some time looking for it and could not find it in XP but I know that I have used it on my own computer very successfully to that 300 gig partition down to 40. that is about the size you need for vista.Giving me room to create 2 more primary drives. Data & Misc/Music and a logical drive for my back-ups. Did so on my Nieces computer, her dad's on 6 laptops. Boy howdy did this stump me.
Went to DIY-computer-repair.com; my mentor's website. Into "Questions & Answers" and posted the same as the title of this article. Received a reply with in 5 hours. Suggested that I try a couple of things; you can read his reply and my additional remarks for yourself.
While in personal email with Mr. Russell I realized that it was on windows "Vista" that I had used the program to shrink that big hard drive.
Hay check it out this is one of the good things about "Vista" the Dog, Operating System.
Trust that you learned something like I did in my next post I will continue with article 2 in this series.
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