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Increase primary partition sizs
Name: Koh Date: September 15, 2004 at 07:21:36 Pacific OS: Win NT 4.0 CPU/Ram: 1 GB
Comment:
I have a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 PC and 1 GB RAM running Win NT4.0 Service pack 6. When I setup this server it allow a maximum harddisk space of around 2 GB on C drive. Now I have to install cold fusion server on this server and run a cold fusion application. However I don't have enough space on drive C. I cannot install the CF application on other drive as all the forms refers to C drive. So how can I add the other free unpartition disk space to my C partition?
Name: Kurt S Date: September 15, 2004 at 08:40:24 Pacific
Reply:
It's going to depend on what type of partition you set up on drive C. If you set up a FAT16 partition, then you can resize it to 4 gigs if you use a 64k cluster size. If you used an NTFS partition, then you can resize it to 7.8 gigs.
If you need to keep your data, then you will want to use something like Partition Magic to resize the partitions without data loss.
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Response Number 2
Name: wanderer Date: September 15, 2004 at 12:52:12 Pacific
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If you have followed this: http://www.ntfaq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=13922
You would have a boot drive of whatever size you want.
PS. Its not c: that is important but %systemroot% ie where winnt folder resides. Install reads that variable and wants to install to program files.
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