Create an additional drive

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Hello

A Windows XP pro sp2 with an unpartitioned 60 GB of C:\drive, running in a
small network environment. "My Documents" folder contains a huge amount of
documents and data. This seems to have slowed down the performance.

I would like to create an additional drive and move the data from c:\ to the
additional new drive.

How can I do this please ?

Many thanks

Best

 

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"best@news.postalias" <best@news.postalias> wrote:

>A Windows XP pro sp2 with an unpartitioned 60 GB of C:\drive, running in a
>small network environment. "My Documents" folder contains a huge amount of
>documents and data. This seems to have slowed down the performance.

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.

 

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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.

 

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best@news.postalias wrote:
> Hello
>
> A Windows XP pro sp2 with an unpartitioned 60 GB of
> C:\drive, running in a small network environment. "My
> Documents" folder contains a huge amount of documents and
> data. This seems to have slowed down the performance.
>
> I would like to create an additional drive and move the data
> from c:\ to the additional new drive.
>
> How can I do this please ?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Best

If your hard drive has unpartitioned space available you can
easily create new partitions and drives from within Disk
Management:
Go to Start -> Run and enter diskmgmt.msc in the Open box and
click OK.
Your primary hard drive should be listed in the bottom pane as
Drive 0.
Is there an area labeled Unallocated?
If so, you might want to take a look at this article:

http://www.theeldergeek.com/hard_drives_06.htm

If your hard drive does not contain any unpartitioned space,
you'll have to use a third party program such as Partition
Magic 8.0 from Symantec in order to reallocate drive space:

http://www.symantec.com/partitionmagic/index.html

Once you've created and formatted your new partition, you can
relocate the "My Documents" folder by following this procedure:

How to Change the Default Location of the My Documents Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310147

Good luck

Nepatsfan

 

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best@news.postalias wrote:
> Hello
>
> A Windows XP pro sp2 with an unpartitioned 60 GB of
> C:\drive, running in a small network environment. "My
> Documents" folder contains a huge amount of documents and
> data. This seems to have slowed down the performance.
>
> I would like to create an additional drive and move the data
> from c:\ to the additional new drive.
>
> How can I do this please ?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Best

Add the following to my earlier response:

The amount of data within your My Documents folder would be
towards the bottom of the list of items to check if your
computers performance has slowed down.
1. Start with making sure your system is virus/spyware free.
2. Look at how many programs are running in the background when
your computer starts. Here are a couple of utilites that will
provide that info:

Startup Control Panel
http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

Autoruns
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html

3. When's the last time you defragged your hard drive?

Take a look at these articles:

Restore Your Computer's Performance with Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/expert/northrup_restoreperf.mspx

Why is my computer running so slow
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm

Nepatsfan

 

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I would want to know why you have an unpartitioned 60gb on your C drive,
first

<best@news.postalias> wrote in message
news:062636E8-9A6E-46B1-91BA-185E369782B7@microsoft.com...
> 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
>
> =======
>
> "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.
>