Drive apps are installed to (Win XP)

[kapovski]

I have a laptop with 120gig HDD.

The drive is partitioned:
C drive = 20gig
D drive = 100 gig (approx)

C drive is now 85% full but D drive is on 5 % full.

I want to know if I can move applications from C drive to D drive without uninstalling and re-installing. Is it possible? If so how?

 

[Syndyre]

Doubt it but you could always adjust the partition sizes with something like partition magic.

 

[Fudzy]

Be VERY cautious when using Partition Magic though.

 

[howardb]

Acronis Disc Director - I always use this app for re-sizing my partitions... will enable you to resize the C & D partitions on the same HDD, by allocating some space from D Drive to C Drive - making C larger - i.e C = 30GB and D = 90GB.

 

[The_Techie]

Acronis Disc Director - I always use this app for re-sizing my partitions... will enable you to resize the C & D partitions on the same HDD, by allocating some space from D Drive to C Drive - making C larger - i.e C = 30GB and D = 90GB.

Seconded, I trust Acronis more than Symantec...

 

[CathJ]

Some apps you can move across... cautiously, and with no guarantee that they'll work afterwards

Basically, you need to check in any config files, and any registry keys, for that app and change the drive letter. Some apps have the drive hard-coded, though, in which case you're stuffed.

Even if it works, you won't reclaim as much space as you'd think, since a lot of apps install dll's etc into the system directory.

Your best option is to resize the drives, as suggested above.

 

[Necuno]

set page file to d drive and move mydocuments if you havent...

 

[kapovski]

Thanks