Running out of space

I have dual OS on one 40g hd ( Win98se & XP ). Lately, I've been messing
around with videos, and I realize they do take up a lot of space..so I
have 2 more hd's where I could transfer them..but the program I use for
burning is on my Xp drive, and I keep getting reminders that I am
running low on free space...they say you need at least 200mb of free
space. Well, I need more than that. Is there a safe way of separating
those OS's to separate hd's. ..without having to reinstall either one?
Or is the better way is to add more space via XP partitioning or
Partition Magic? BTW, the other hd's are each 80g's. Thanks

I would use PMagic (if you have it, if not then BootIt NG) to create more
space on the XP drive. Given the size of today's programs and what they can
do on an XP system, you probably ought to have a gig of free space on your
C: drive. I think you might be headed for trouble with the XP boot loader
if you tried to separate the systems. This would be a question best asked
in an XP newsgroup.

--
Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo



"TonyB" wrote in message
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I have dual OS on one 40g hd ( Win98se & XP ). Lately, I've been messing
around with videos, and I realize they do take up a lot of space..so I have
2 more hd's where I could transfer them..but the program I use for burning
is on my Xp drive, and I keep getting reminders that I am running low on
free space...they say you need at least 200mb of free space. Well, I need
more than that. Is there a safe way of separating those OS's to separate
hd's. ..without having to reinstall either one? Or is the better way is to
add more space via XP partitioning or Partition Magic? BTW, the other hd's
are each 80g's. Thanks

I would use PMagic (if you have it, if not then BootIt NG) to create more
space on the XP drive. Given the size of today's programs and what they can
do on an XP system, you probably ought to have a gig of free space on your
C: drive. I think you might be headed for trouble with the XP boot loader
if you tried to separate the systems. This would be a question best asked
in an XP newsgroup.

--
Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo



"TonyB" wrote in message
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I have dual OS on one 40g hd ( Win98se & XP ). Lately, I've been messing
around with videos, and I realize they do take up a lot of space..so I have
2 more hd's where I could transfer them..but the program I use for burning
is on my Xp drive, and I keep getting reminders that I am running low on
free space...they say you need at least 200mb of free space. Well, I need
more than that. Is there a safe way of separating those OS's to separate
hd's. ..without having to reinstall either one? Or is the better way is to
add more space via XP partitioning or Partition Magic? BTW, the other hd's
are each 80g's. Thanks

You don't have to have the files for burning on the same drive as the
burning program - you should store these files on the 80Gb drives. If
you're already doing that, have a hunt through the menus of the program you
are using for burning to see if you can relocate its temporary storage to
one of the 80Gb drives - it sounds like the message is referring to a lack
of space for whatever temporary storage the burning program needs, and there
should be some way to tell it to use one of the other drives.

Otherwise, just re-install the burning program to one of the larger drives
and see if that helps.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"TonyB" wrote in message
...
I have dual OS on one 40g hd ( Win98se & XP ). Lately, I've been messing
around with videos, and I realize they do take up a lot of space..so I have
2 more hd's where I could transfer them..but the program I use for burning
is on my Xp drive, and I keep getting reminders that I am running low on
free space...they say you need at least 200mb of free space. Well, I need
more than that. Is there a safe way of separating those OS's to separate
hd's. ..without having to reinstall either one? Or is the better way is to
add more space via XP partitioning or Partition Magic? BTW, the other hd's
are each 80g's. Thanks

You don't have to have the files for burning on the same drive as the
burning program - you should store these files on the 80Gb drives. If
you're already doing that, have a hunt through the menus of the program you
are using for burning to see if you can relocate its temporary storage to
one of the 80Gb drives - it sounds like the message is referring to a lack
of space for whatever temporary storage the burning program needs, and there
should be some way to tell it to use one of the other drives.

Otherwise, just re-install the burning program to one of the larger drives
and see if that helps.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"TonyB" wrote in message
...
I have dual OS on one 40g hd ( Win98se & XP ). Lately, I've been messing
around with videos, and I realize they do take up a lot of space..so I have
2 more hd's where I could transfer them..but the program I use for burning
is on my Xp drive, and I keep getting reminders that I am running low on
free space...they say you need at least 200mb of free space. Well, I need
more than that. Is there a safe way of separating those OS's to separate
hd's. ..without having to reinstall either one? Or is the better way is to
add more space via XP partitioning or Partition Magic? BTW, the other hd's
are each 80g's. Thanks

Jeff Richards wrote:

You don't have to have the files for burning on the same drive as the
burning program - you should store these files on the 80Gb drives. If
you're already doing that, have a hunt through the menus of the program you
are using for burning to see if you can relocate its temporary storage to
one of the 80Gb drives - it sounds like the message is referring to a lack
of space for whatever temporary storage the burning program needs, and there
should be some way to tell it to use one of the other drives.

Otherwise, just re-install the burning program to one of the larger drives
and see if that helps.


The other drives are not my primary...doesn't that make a difference?
They are just for data and the eventuality of moving some data after a
crash. I specifically installed win98se for this program...plus, why
does it say on the box of the program that win98se is one of the system
requirements? Correct me if I'm wrong.

Jeff Richards wrote:

You don't have to have the files for burning on the same drive as the
burning program - you should store these files on the 80Gb drives. If
you're already doing that, have a hunt through the menus of the program you
are using for burning to see if you can relocate its temporary storage to
one of the 80Gb drives - it sounds like the message is referring to a lack
of space for whatever temporary storage the burning program needs, and there
should be some way to tell it to use one of the other drives.

Otherwise, just re-install the burning program to one of the larger drives
and see if that helps.


The other drives are not my primary...doesn't that make a difference?
They are just for data and the eventuality of moving some data after a
crash. I specifically installed win98se for this program...plus, why
does it say on the box of the program that win98se is one of the system
requirements? Correct me if I'm wrong.

Jeff Richards wrote:

Otherwise, just re-install the burning program to one of the larger
drives
and see if that helps.

"TonyB" wrote in message
news
The other drives are not my primary...doesn't that make a difference?
They are just for data and the eventuality of moving some data after a
crash. I specifically installed win98se for this program...plus, why
does it say on the box of the program that win98se is one of the system
requirements? Correct me if I'm wrong.

The Registry (main feature of Win98 different from its
predecessors) means you can instal applications
(including system files) anywhere the instal routine
allows -- not only on C:\
Most install routines allow you to assign a custom
folder to a new app.

Win98SE as a System Requirement means that an
app. is not guaranteed to run on a predecessor OS:
that is all. E.g. most new printers now connect only via
USB and require USB version 2, the main difference
between Win98SE and Win98. So a label saying a printer
requires Win98SE is just shorthand for all this.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

Jeff Richards wrote:

Otherwise, just re-install the burning program to one of the larger
drives
and see if that helps.

"TonyB" wrote in message
news
The other drives are not my primary...doesn't that make a difference?
They are just for data and the eventuality of moving some data after a
crash. I specifically installed win98se for this program...plus, why
does it say on the box of the program that win98se is one of the system
requirements? Correct me if I'm wrong.

The Registry (main feature of Win98 different from its
predecessors) means you can instal applications
(including system files) anywhere the instal routine
allows -- not only on C:\
Most install routines allow you to assign a custom
folder to a new app.

Win98SE as a System Requirement means that an
app. is not guaranteed to run on a predecessor OS:
that is all. E.g. most new printers now connect only via
USB and require USB version 2, the main difference
between Win98SE and Win98. So a label saying a printer
requires Win98SE is just shorthand for all this.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

Don Phillipson wrote:

Jeff Richards wrote:



Otherwise, just re-install the burning program to one of the larger


drives


and see if that helps.



"TonyB" wrote in message
news


The other drives are not my primary...doesn't that make a difference?
They are just for data and the eventuality of moving some data after a
crash. I specifically installed win98se for this program...plus, why
does it say on the box of the program that win98se is one of the system
requirements? Correct me if I'm wrong.



The Registry (main feature of Win98 different from its
predecessors) means you can instal applications
(including system files) anywhere the instal routine
allows -- not only on C:\
Most install routines allow you to assign a custom
folder to a new app.

Win98SE as a System Requirement means that an
app. is not guaranteed to run on a predecessor OS:
that is all. E.g. most new printers now connect only via
USB and require USB version 2, the main difference
between Win98SE and Win98. So a label saying a printer
requires Win98SE is just shorthand for all this.



Thanks I'll give it a try...you learn something new every day