loading windows on c&d drives

A temporary solution could be to uninstall all your applications from c and reinstall them o d: That shoud give you an extra couple of hundred megas free with MS Office and all that. Try moving your files such as docs, mp3, ppts to your d drive. If both partitions are actually on the same hard disk you can repartition them pretty easily by using a specific application such as Partition Magic. Hope that helps...

Hi,
10Gb is more than enough for primary partition with the OS and the necessary application on it.
You need to organize your saved files on D drive and also move/reinstall on D drive the bigest applications (games, CD images, music,etc.).
You don't need to reinstall your OS on D drive only some maintenance of the C drive (is unusual to install OS on secondary partition).

A good option is to use Disk Copy by Powerquest. I just moved my 9GB C: drive to my new 18GB C: Drive in about 30 Minutes. You hook up new drive as an IDE slave or in my case a non-boot SCSI, fire up Disk Copy and copy the disk to the slave. Change jumpers on the slave and boot up your new drive, an identical copy of the old one.

A cheaper, but longer route is to reorganize as above by uninstalling programs from C: and re-installing to d:\Program Files\*.*

The solution to copy your C: drive onto the D: drive is the "simplest" sollution to your problem.

Installing Windows on the D: drive will not take care of the problem, and may even cause some new problems.

The biggest problem, is that the new installation of Windows will not know that you have any programs installed on your PC.
Installing Windows onto a new seperate drive will likely cause a new registry to be created.
This means that all registry settings required for your existing programs will be lost. Along with the many files that both programs and hardware drivers place into the system files.

Also, installing Windows on the D: drive will not clean ANY files off of the C: drive.
You will need to manually go through and delete the un-needed files from the C: drive.
This is not a task for a beginner.

The next problem, is that many programs by default, install system components to the folder C:\Windows

For some information on using multiple drives, and partitions,check out the articles on partitioning at www.aumha.org

Chas

I think you have gotten several good suggestions. If you're not interested in any of them, free up some space.

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