Windows 7 OS partition

4p · 16 Sep 2010 at 15:30

Ok so i thought i'd be clever and put w7 on a 20gb partition. Keep it separated like.

But i can't install ANY games, unaware to me is that games install quite differently on w7 than XP.

Is there a way round this?

4p · 16 Sep 2010 at 16:16

It won't let me extend OS partition? I shrank the First hardrive by 50gb and now have that spare but still can't extend OS :/

4p · 16 Sep 2010 at 16:35

4p · 16 Sep 2010 at 17:16

Coolasmoo said:
Why not install your games on your D: or G: drive

Windows 7 installs games on C: no matter what you do. Annoying.

edit: Well, parts of the games.

4p · 16 Sep 2010 at 17:18

eXor said:
The free space must be adjacent to the partition that you want to grow. In this case, D:\ is in the way.

You could copy the contents of D:\ to G:\ ( 222 GB free? ),
remove D:\,
grow C:\ to desired size,
recreate D:\ in the remaining space,
copy back to D:\ from G:\

There's things installed like steam/spotify etc. I assume these won't work after bein thrown around etc?

4p · 16 Sep 2010 at 17:24

You can install them on another partition/drive yea but for some reason parts of the game have to be installed onto C:

If you extract anything it goes into your temp folder too, which is located on C:

4p · 16 Sep 2010 at 17:40

Ta just copying stuff over to G

4p · 16 Sep 2010 at 17:54

Done.

Appreciate the help fellas.