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More info?)
I would want to know why you have an unpartitioned 60gb on your C drive,
first
<best@news.postalias> wrote in message
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> Hello Zilbandy,
>
> Thank you for the reply.
>
> The 'My Documents' folder is well organised. The problem is that it
became
> too big. This seems to have affected the performance. The machine's
> unpartitioned 60GB hard space is an NTFS basic disk. I have looked at the
> following KB:
>
> How To Convert to Basic and Dynamic Disks in Windows XP Professional
>
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=309044
>
> Only I am not quite sure whether by converting from basic to dynamic would
> meet my expectations, nor am I quite sure whether this would be the
correct
> approach to meet my expectations, i.e. I wanted to create a new drive, say
> for example drive I:\ with 20GB of space where all the documents and data
> would be moved for storage.
>
> Regards
>
> Best
>
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>
> "Zilbandy" wrote:
>
> If you have all those documents under MyDocuments, try making some folders
> under the MyDocuments folder and start moving stuff into those newly
created
> folders. This is a perfect time to start organizing your data. If nothing
> else, just make a single folder named Archive, or something like that and
> move all your documents into that folder. When you create new documents,
they
> will be added to the MyDocument folder like normal. Once you are
'finished'
> working on these, move them to the Archive folder. I've heard that Windows
> will slow down if there are too many entries under the MyDocuments folder.
By
> making a sub folder, you eliminate the excessive number of documents in
the
> root folder.
>