Hello
  I agree that it is much smarter, especially in terms of backup and
partition maintenance, to keep just the OS's bare essentials on one
partition and all programs, data, and the normal digital flotsam and jetsam
on non-booting partitions.  Unfortunately the programmers of applications,
especially windows applications, either don't agree or don't help because
everybody and his brother wants to  default to C:\Program Files\whatever as
well as place an icon on the desktop, in quick launch, in
"programs", and also place at least one if not several items in
"Startum" to run what used to be called TSR applications.  What a
complete cluster f___,...  errr orgy.

  So as applies to the original poster it is certainly true that it is not
necessary and ultimately better if you don't expand "C" and tempt
Murphy in the process and just be diligent about telling app[lications
where to go, Not "C", thank you very much.

  As for swap/paging file, yes, thankfully XP does allow and even provide
somewhat better control over paging files.  The "handle" is
located under "My Computer" > Properties
>Advanced>Advanced" under "Performance"  or such
depending on Home or Pro but is referred to first as "Virtual
Memory" then as "paging file" and the exact page has a list
of all your drives with how much free space each is reporting and you can
individually choose which ones get the swap file and how big it is.  It is
still fastest if you choose a static size where start size and max size are
the same but give it plenty of size then especially if you use ram heavy
apps like Photoshop, Cold Fusion, Dreamweaver, etc (those 3 can eat up over
2 Gigs in a heartbeat).  It is even possible to build a dedicated swap
drive but it takes a little doing to get XP to stop worrying that it is
"running out of room" and it will insist on placing a Recycled
folder and System Volume Information on it.  Man, Windows can insist on th

e stupidest stuff!

Hope this helps
Jimmy


> Julian Thomas wrote:
> > Duncan Way wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>>I want to increase the size of my xp partition.
> >>>I am running Warp4/fp15 with the latest fdisk/bootmanager from ECS.
> >>>I am using Dani's dasd and 506.
> >>>
> >>>My current setup is:
> >>>
> >>>C:  5000 mb  -- xp (fat32)
> >>>D:  700  mb  -- programs (hpfs)
> >>>E:  600  mb  -- data (hpfs)
> >>>F:  600  mb  -- Warp4 (main boot, hpfs)
> >>>G:  400  mb  -- Warp4 (maintenance boot, hpfs)
> >>>H:  10000 mb -- hpfs partition which I would take space
from to increase C:
> > 
> > 
> > Why not carve a new partition out of H and use it for ZP progs and data?
> >  
> I second the motion.  I assume you do not need to expand C: because XP 
> it self is growing, rather the stuff XP needs to access is growing. 
> It is easier to maintain a boot partition if it only contains the OS 
> and possibly utilities that help it work.  Apps should be on a 
> different partition and data off in it's own world.  FAT32 is not 
> stopped by 1024.  The simplest thing to do is change H: to FAT32 and 
> let every one use it.  I have a couple 25G FAT32 partitions that are 
> used by OS/2, Win and DOS.  If you're not comfortable with that, split 
> H: and the leave the pieces where they are.
> 
> While we are on the subject, I have a laptop that is preinstalled with 
> XP.  I need to split that and add OS/2 plus app and data partitions. 
> Can XP be told where to put it's swap file like 9X so I can get it off 
> the boot partition?
> 
> Ray
> 
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