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Disk partitions

by Samuel Mar 10, 2006 6:12AM PST

My home PC has a 40 and hard drive and 60GB disk drive that my friend built for me. He partitioned the hard drive in four (C, D, E and F); ocasionally, I get a message that C is at a critical point of being full and I have to delete some of the files. My wife is a heavy user of the web and this loads a lot of cookies, etc. Routinely, we have to run disk clean up and compress but it is annoying to have to do this. I'm affraid of screwing things up because I don't know what he used to partition the drive (he created so many back ups of C in D, E, and F) that it is unnecessary and they populate the bigger drive too.

I also have a cd burner.

What can I do? I'd like to leave the hard drive as C for all the programs and other stuff we have and partition the 60GB drive into two (D, E) and buy another for other stuff (perhaps F).

Should I buy another drive? or buy more storage (I got 256)?

How do I do it?

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