partitioning advice

GTanny · 12 May 2009 at 18:18

hey,

ive just reinstalled vista and when i set it up i split my harddrive into 4 partitions, C: for vista, D: for programs, E: music, F: videos. the problem is that every time i try install/download anything it defaults to C drive which is getting quite full, is there anyway to get it to set D as the default location for these activites.

if not is there a free alternative to partition magic so i can remove/reduce the other partitions and extend C?

cheers

Gary

Tonyator · 12 May 2009 at 18:20

Disk management in Vista will allow you to the the latter, not sure if you're on XP tho.

miniyazz · 12 May 2009 at 19:10

http://en.kioskea.net/faq/sujet-1328-change-the-default-installation-folder-c-program-files is what you want

GTanny · 13 May 2009 at 06:36

thanks miniyazz worked perfectly

cheers tonyator,im on vista 64bit but it wouldnt let me do it it would only let me reduce the partitions not merge or increase them.

northun_munky · 13 May 2009 at 07:54

miniyazz said:
http://en.kioskea.net/faq/sujet-1328-change-the-default-installation-folder-c-program-files is what you want

Thats a wicked find! I've had this problem for ages. Now I dont

miniyazz · 13 May 2009 at 08:09

northun_munky said:
Thats a wicked find! I've had this problem for ages. Now I dont

Good to hear it works as it should. I just tend to leave my apps on C:, an 80GB partition does me with space to spare at the moment! Not got many games installed yet though.

GTanny · 13 May 2009 at 14:09

quick warning about this, after at first all seemed well then when i checked i could not access regedit or msconfig from the run menu neither would device manager add hardware or computer management in admin tools

ive just restored it in safe mode though and i think software might be better in the end

miniyazz · 13 May 2009 at 19:48

hmm and that was due to changing the default Programs directory in the registry?