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Solutions: Juggling space on a partitioned hard drive
By JOHN TORRO Q. I need help in getting rid of an alert message that keeps popping up. I reformatted my 40-gigabyte hard drive. I divided the hard drive into three drives: C with 2GB; D with 2GB; and E with 36GB. I installed Windows Me on C; Windows NT 4 Version 6 upgrade on D; and on E, I installed all my applications, such as Office 2000. About four months ago, an alert message started appearing at the lower right of the screen whenever I was using Me. It shows up when my wife is using NT only when she loads AOL to transfer data. The message reads: "X LOW DISK SPACE You are running out of disk space on [C]. To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files, click here." I moved the printer drivers and deleted all files in Me that I did not use and that the operating system would allow me to delete. There is 218 megabytes of free disk space on C. I know I could shut the system down and spend a day reformatting. But it just seems there should be a much simpler way to get rid of this message. A. Before reformatting you may want to consider using a disk utility such as PowerQuest's PartitionMagic to move space from your E partition to your C partition. The $60 would be well spent to avoid the risk of losing data and two days of aggravation from reloading software. There is also a way to disable the low disk space error messages, if you want to do that. Here is how Microsoft suggests doing that: 1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Accessories, point to System Tools, then click Disk Cleanup. 2. In the Drives box, click the drive for which you want to disable low disk space notification, then click OK. 3. Click the Settings tab. 4. Click to clear the "If this drive runs low on disk space, automatically run Disk Cleanup" check box, and click OK. 5. When you are prompted "Are you sure you want to delete files?" click No. Also, on a Windows Me installation, a good source to free up space is the C:\Windows\Options\Install folder. This folder is used by Windows as a convenience to load drivers on new equipment you may add. Once Windows is installed, this folder and its contents may not be needed. Of course, if you add new hardware, Windows will prompt you for your installation CD instead of automatically looking in the C:\Windows\Options\Install folder. Archiving e-mail messagesQ. I want to save my e-mails, then delete them from my computer. I may need to rebuild my computer soon because it's acting temperamental. I don't want to lose the data the e-mails contain and want to be able to refer back to them later. A. Create a folder on the Desktop (right-click the Desktop, select New, Folder). Open Outlook Express and drag and drop the individual e-mail messages into the folder you've created. Save the folder to a floppy or a ZIP disk. The individual e-mails will always be readable by just double-clicking on the individual messages (assuming you re-install Outlook Express on your new system).
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