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Partitioned hard drive with full drive C. How change primary drive to E?
My partitioned hard drive has 6GB. C, D, E each has 2GB. C is full. D is mostly empty, E is empty. Everything I look at tries to load in C, causing messages "Your drive is full." How do I get most new files and folders to go to E? Windows 98 Device Manager won't allow me to change the order of C, D, E (even though these appear in a box with a blinking cursor). How can I make E my primary drive? Anybody?
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May 20th, 2004 00:00
You can't, at least not without repartitioning and reinstalling everything.
The first partition on the first physical drive is C: to all DOS-based OSes (DOS/95/98/ME); that cannot be changed.
Your best bet is either to clean up your C drive (there's no real way to stop programs from installing components to the Windows directory and adding to to the registry), or back the system up, invest in a utility like Partition Magic, and resize the partitions.