My 2000 computer originally had NT 4.0 on it when received drom Dell factory. The C: drive had only 2Gb on its partition (FAT formatted) while the D: partition was NTFS. I upgraded to 2000 and over the last year and my C: drive has almost filled up. It has about 5Mb free now and I have to delete temp internet files all the time. I have cleaned up C: as much as I could without risking any adverse effects. Having the 2Gb C: drive is stupid and I need to borrow from the D: partition. Is there a way to do this short of reformatting the whole drive and starting from scratch? There HAS to be some software that does this. Thanks.

You have several options: 1) If you are ONLY using W2K, convert the C drive to NTFS and you'll get some more space. 2) You can also get a program from powerquest called Partition Magic. Its a very good program, and I've used it to expand my C drive from 2gb to further. But you won't be able to do it on a regular FAT (I don't think) you'll have to convert it to NTFS first. But run the program and it will tell you what you need to do.

Bret's response is accurate, except that the latest verion of PQ Partition Magic works great with all file systems, including FAT. In any case, I would convert the C: drive to FAT32 or NTFS as Bret mentioned.

Yes, the prob is that FAT16 is maxed out at 2GB. Try FAT32 first until you know that you won't be needing NT. Then, expand the partition and see how it goes. You can always then convert to NTFS later. FAT32 has some limits to. LOL, JackL