C:\ is full

First, you might think about useing a disk partitioning utility such as: PartitionMagic, DriveImage, which I have used and am familiar with. There are also many other quality disk partitioning utilities availible. Most of these utilities have a feature that will move free space from one volume to another. If you decide to go this route, be sure to have a good back-up of your W2k DC Server before useing any of these utilities! I would strongly suggest that you practice on another computer unlessyou are already familiar with useing a specific utility.

Hi,
You can try a maintenance:
-check users profile size and content, move/redirect documents from profile (if exist) to D drive, use a policy or quota and establish a size for profile.
-check temporary files, backup history
-move paging file (virtual memory) to D drive.

Save yourself time and trouble. Get Symantec's Ghost program, think it's about 60.00-70.00 bucks and well worth it in a network environment, infact I don't see how anyone can get along without it. With this software you can make a duplicate of the original drive with no problem. You're prompted to set up partition sizes durring the copy process. Ghost is easy to use and there's no risk to the original drive as long as you don't make a mistake about the source and destinaiton of the drives, or in other words copy the empty drive to the original. It'll probably take 15-30 minutes to complete the whole process.

Surely, you first have to delete all unnecesaries from your c: disk.

Then, after you installed a new drive, you may want to use junction points feature of NTFS. That is move a folder from your c: drive to newly added disk say from c:\BigFolder toE:\JP\BigFolder. Then use LINKD command like:
c:\>linkd bigfolder e:\jp\bigfolder

This is really the SIMPLEST way to "increase" your c: drive.

Check also advanced features of NTBACKUP about restoring Junction Points data. And do not use thefiles through e:\jp\... path.

Cheers,
Dima

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