Hello!
I recently had to use the Restore DVD for my eMachines EL-1200-05w running Windows XP because of a particularly nasty virus that had made the machine all but unusable.
After the restore, I'm back up and running...BUT...my C: drive is now only 9.75 GB, my D: drive is 69.3 GB & my E: drive is 69.9 GB. The strange thing is that I had only C: and D: drives prior to the restore. I'm assuming the C: is now my recovery partition (and is actually part of what the computer's now calling the D: drive, which used to be the C: drive. I noticed some...but nowhere near all...of the contents of the "old" C: drive still exist on the D: drive, which surprised me...I thought the Restore would get rid of everything). It also changed the designation of my old D: drive to what is now my "new" E: drive, the contents of which were untouched by the Restore.
Here's the problem I'm running into. A "running out of disk space" warning about my C: drive because it had dipped below 200 MB free. Once I ran the Restore DVD and got the computer running again, I installed AVG antivirus, Spybot Search & Destroy & Google Earth, in that order. Everything automatically intalls to the C: drive, which quickly ran out of space. I removed anything that I'd downloaded except for AVG, and now have 503 MB free. I no longer get the warning, but how do I avoid running into the same thing again when I want to re-instal Google Earth, Adobe Audition, etc.,etc.? Can I manually force everything to install to the D: or E: drives? Won't Windows updates eventually fill my C: drive if I only have 503 MB free? Is there a way to increase its size if it's actually part of the D: drive? Sorry, I'm lost. Thanks in advance for any help.
I recently had to use the Restore DVD for my eMachines EL-1200-05w running Windows XP because of a particularly nasty virus that had made the machine all but unusable.
After the restore, I'm back up and running...BUT...my C: drive is now only 9.75 GB, my D: drive is 69.3 GB & my E: drive is 69.9 GB. The strange thing is that I had only C: and D: drives prior to the restore. I'm assuming the C: is now my recovery partition (and is actually part of what the computer's now calling the D: drive, which used to be the C: drive. I noticed some...but nowhere near all...of the contents of the "old" C: drive still exist on the D: drive, which surprised me...I thought the Restore would get rid of everything). It also changed the designation of my old D: drive to what is now my "new" E: drive, the contents of which were untouched by the Restore.
Here's the problem I'm running into. A "running out of disk space" warning about my C: drive because it had dipped below 200 MB free. Once I ran the Restore DVD and got the computer running again, I installed AVG antivirus, Spybot Search & Destroy & Google Earth, in that order. Everything automatically intalls to the C: drive, which quickly ran out of space. I removed anything that I'd downloaded except for AVG, and now have 503 MB free. I no longer get the warning, but how do I avoid running into the same thing again when I want to re-instal Google Earth, Adobe Audition, etc.,etc.? Can I manually force everything to install to the D: or E: drives? Won't Windows updates eventually fill my C: drive if I only have 503 MB free? Is there a way to increase its size if it's actually part of the D: drive? Sorry, I'm lost. Thanks in advance for any help.