I bought this PC in Feb. 2000. The original specs were: OS: Windows 98SE CPU: Intel-Celeron (500 MHz) RAM: 64 MB Hard Disk: 10 GB I added another 10GB Hard disk and upgraded RAM to 128MB in Dec. 2002. In Jan. 2003 updraded OS to Winxp Home Ed. and then SP2. In March 2005 installed Norton Security 2005. Lastly, doubled RAM to 256MB. I can't DEFRAG MASTER HARD DISK (C:) 'CAUSE it has less than 15% of Free Space. But Slave Hard Disk (D:) has 9.0GB Free Space. How can I transfer some files and folders from (C:) to (D:)? Just to defrag Master. Need help badly. Thanks! +?^}=\

The first thing you could try is to run defrag in Safe mode - if that doesn't help... Move (Cut, Paste) files that are not for programs, such as ones that tend to take up more space such as music files, movies, video downloads, camera image files, etc., to a folder or folders on the D drive. You can Cut, make a folder, then Paste if you like. You could also un-install programs in Add Remove Programs you don't use, or can install again by means of a CD you have or a download you easily can get on the web, and if you need them, install them again using a Custom or other other that the Express or default install, selecting or changing the location so you're installing them on D rather than C (if a path to a folder rather than just a drive letter is shown, I advise you to change just the drive letter; leave the rest of the path intact, to avoid possible problems if you ever need to un-install the program - some un-install programs - e.g. for Power DVD 4.x - are poorly written and will delete everything in the destination folder, whether they were installed by the program or not, and they do not show up in the Recycle bin). You DO NOT have to install all programs on C - you can install most programs on D and in that case, only a little data is installed on C, the vast majority of it will be on D.

I took a look at specs of your system - I'm assuming it's 6630(US/CAN). You have the maximum amount of ram you can install on your mboard, according to the Kingston and Crucial web sites. 256mb is just a little more than enough for XP to run properly, and it doesn't take many additional programs running to slow it down. If you are still using the onboard video ... - that ram is shared with the onboard video, and you don't have the full 256mb available to Windows for data - you don't have an AGP slot, but if you use any PCI video card in a slot, the full 256mb of ram will be available to XP, and your ram will be able to run at it's full bandwidth (max burst data transfer speed), rather than than that being greatly reduced (as much as halved) which is the case when you share ram with onboard video. You will notice the greatest difference when there is more demand being made on your system. Interestingly, the specs for your system say: "Supported operating systems (OS/NOS) Microsoft (R) Windows 98 2nd Edition NOTE: The only operating system supported on this HP Pavilion PC is MS Windows 98." Is there anything on the system that worked properly in 98 that doesn't work in XP?

You can defrag it if you start it safe mode. I wouldn't go berzerk trying to fool with stuff. You could use disk clean up to start. You could even consider compress old files or even compress the entire disk to save space. "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, are in my top 10

You can free-up more than 1GB on C: by disabling System Restore. IME System Restore never works when you need it and backsup only a few System files. Better Registry Backup is available (FREE) at this link. http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-o... Download both ERUNT and NTRegOPT and you can fully backup all Registry Hives and optimize them for faster start up. Very useful if you install/uninstall lots of software. Manual backup at the click of a mouse. Another spacesaver, move the Page File (Virtual Memory) to D: There is nothing to learn from someone who already agrees with you.

C: drive was cleaned up and removed of any detected errors. I did try to defrag it in Safe Mode, (Winxp_SP2) but got the same message that said disk C: can't be defragmented because there should be 15% of Free Space available on it. Just a question, should I uninstall Winxp_SP2 then use RECOVERY Disc 1 & Disc 2 to reinstall Win 98. Then try to defrag disk C: in Safe Mode? +?^}=\

"...removed of any detected errors." That's fine as long as they weren't any bad sectors. If you do all that you will lose all your personal stuff and programs on C that has been added since XP SP2 was installed, unless you copy or back up what you don't want to lose to somewhere else before you do that - and - if you re-install the original brand name software installtion including Win 98, the C logical drive will no longer be too full, it will be 0% fragmented when it is first installed, you will not need to run defrag for a long time, and it will probably install files on the second partiton (it will create the partition if it isn't there or remake it if it is the wrong size) on your original drive, or ohn whatever drive is now the primary one, automatically. If you don't want to destroy what is already on C, just do at least some of the things in response 1. That will take you much less time than what you are proposing! After you do that stuff you will still have to load many Microsoft Updates, install many programs you want to use that aren't already there, etc., etc., until the drives have the stuff on them you want. E.g. you will probably need to load a version of Adobe Acrobat Reader, or another program that can read pdf files, the latest Adobe Flash version available for 98, maybe the Adobe Shockwave player, Internet Explorer 6.x or another much newer browser )other wise lots of web pages won't load or won't load properly, newer video drivers, possibly a newer version of Direct X depending on what is required by your video drivers, Real Player, Windows Media Player, etc., etc.