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Solve : How to combine to partitions(C:\ and F:\) of hard disc. which software to use??

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I have a total of only 7 GB in c:\ drive. I have lost some 5 GB of space during the formatting the hard disc and now I recovered it. I have that 5 GB space as I:\ drive in my hard disc. As I want to install more softwares C:\ drive is not sufficient. I have installed the OS in C:\ drive it occupied lot of space and I dont have sufficient space in it to isntall the MS Office. Please help me in this.

Which software i con use to do this and from where I can download that software.

please help. Thanks in advanceOffice will install to I:...
However i'd suggest either a larger HDD or re-doing your partition layout.
Windows likes approx 15% total free space on it's partition to function properly.

I'l bet you are EXPERIENCING freezes or crashes pretty often.Hello Patio,
I can isntall the office in I:. but it copies some files in the C:\ and uses some space in it. Even in future if I want to isntall some big size softwares they will use C:\ also.

So I want to combine the I:\ and C:\

How to do that? pls helpThere are no programs that can combine partitions that have a 100% guarantee of no data destruction.
I suggest backing up anything important...
What is the Total size of this drive ? ?The total size of C:\ is 7GB and I:\ is 5 GB. In C:\ I have only XP installed and in I:\ i dont have anything. it is emptyYou NEED a larger HDD...Forget Microsoft Office. It is rubbish.
I have experienced 3 versions and all of them took a shot at using the Excel macros I wrote on a previous version - took a shot and were 95% successful, which was 100% useless in my role as treasurer of a registered charity.

I strongly recommend free of charge Open Office.
I downloaded OpenOffice from
http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable.

It only takes 230 MB and can be held on a Flash drive, or on your empty drive I:\

I actually have a whole bundle of stuff from Portable Apps, and it only takes 357 MB on my drive H:\.
n.b. It all worked well when Drive H:\ was a partition on my external USB connected hard drive - it is even better since Christmas when the 30 GB internal drive grew to 160 GB and I moved the old partition H:\ to the internal drive.

Alan
Quote from: ALAN_BR on AUGUST 25, 2009, 09:35:45 AM

Forget Microsoft Office. It is rubbish.
Okay, clearly that's just a touch biased . MS Office is anything BUT rubbish, even if you're not particularly fond of it I can laugh at the stupid spelling / grammar mistakes Office makes,

But when I have to add CHECKSUMS upon every row and every column of a spreadsheet,
and additionally add together all the horizontal checksums and compare with the sum total of the vertical checksums;
and then run the spreadsheet and printout on each of the computers before I can submit financial reports that may be inspected by charity commissioners,
then I obviously have an untrustworthy tool that could put me in prison.

I even found that when creating a new Excel macro from scratch, using the Excel Wizard, the new macro failed. I read the documentation and discovered the Wizard was NOT incorporating the correct quantity of arguments.

Sorry, but in my view Windows BSODs are the price I pay for using a common operating system in which good quality third party applications can run ! !

Alan
It's been several years ago and several machines ago, but if I remember all the details I had a machine that began life as a W95 machine which had limited support for hard drive space and had 3 partitions. When I upgraded windows I used partition magic to combine all the partitions into one drive and didn't lose any data."Macro's" have sucked in all versions. I just use the VBA editor if I need that type of functionality. (also, it works from office 97 onwards)


"Checksums" wouldn't need a macro, anyway. just a SUM() function, I WOULD imagine.Yes, it was a simple SUM() to get the result.

But it was very tedious that if I had to use a different P.C. I needed to first use a special "test case sample" spreadsheet and print it out and then inspect and compare the 50 or so intermediate checksum results on the new printout with an older printout from a previous computer that seemed to work.

Alan
Quote from: ALAN_BR on August 25, 2009, 10:00:46 AM
I can laugh at the stupid spelling / grammar mistakes Office makes,

But when I have to add checksums upon every row and every column of a spreadsheet,
and additionally add together all the horizontal checksums and compare with the sum total of the vertical checksums;
and then run the spreadsheet and printout on each of the computers before I can submit financial reports that may be inspected by charity commissioners,
then I obviously have an untrustworthy tool that could put me in prison.

I even found that when creating a new Excel macro from scratch, using the Excel Wizard, the new macro failed. I read the documentation and discovered the Wizard was NOT incorporating the correct quantity of arguments.

Sorry, but in my view Windows BSODs are the price I pay for using a common operating system in which good quality third party applications can run ! !

Alan

although i know this is very exadurated
why not use a more compact alternative?We're not here to argue about what Office app he is running...
We're here to solve his issue of running out of drive space consistently.You can use http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ to re-size your partitions. But I would just backup all of the data that you want to save and do a clean install of XP using the whole disk for your C drive.


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