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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 |
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Running out of space
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 ... 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 |
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Running out of space
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 ... 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 |
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Running out of space
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 |
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Running out of space
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 |
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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. |
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Running out of space
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. |
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Running out of space
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) |
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Running out of space
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) |
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Running out of space
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 |
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