Increase the size of C: in XP using space from other partitions

When you create partitions on one hard-disk, is recommended as primary partition (the one on which it will be installed WinXP) to be allocated space-bar more than other partitions (logical). That's because, most of them pROGRAMS installed on Windows will occupies space in C:, and when it will no longer have storage space, PCYour will turn into snail :) (applications and documents will open very hard, and the internet pages will be loaded "in replay"). If you have arrived in such a situation, you will have automatically announced by a pop-up What will bloom in the right-hand corner of the monitor as long as the partition C: They will not delete or move files to make room for Windows to breathe.

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But if You can't quit any file Stored on C:, then we suggest the following way to increase the space on the respective partition.

Created a folder gol on one of the secondary partitions (D:, E:) which has more free space. Then go to Start and select Run dining menu tasted diskmgmt.msc.

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Data Click-right on partition C: and select Change Drive Letter and Paths then on Add.

In the window that appeared, select Mount in the following empty NTFS folder, and give Browse after the empty folder created on one of the secondary partitions.

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After you give OK You will notice that the empty folder in the secondary partition will appear as a Exact copy of partition C:, again space from this will grow the mod miracles. : P

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