>Hi,
>
>I have an old box running 2000 Server. I have a C and D drive. C drive only has 540Meg free.
>D drive has 8gig and is unused. How can I give up some of d drive to c drive (without giving up data on C drive please)
>
>Thank you,
>Neil

You might transfer some of the data from C: to D:

Another option, if the file system is NTFS, is to compress some files or entire folders on C: You might compress everything, but ideal candidates for compression are files you don't access often, since pressumably, you will have some additional overhead opening the files. Just right-click on a folder, and select "Properties" - then you should get the option to compress.

And don't forget about those unneeded files. You may have hundreds of MB in c:\winnt\temp or c:\windows\temp, whatever the Windows folder is called. It is better to check that, before thinking about more drastic measures.

Finally, and this is closer to your original question: are C: and D: different physical disks, or different partitions on one disk? There are some programs, notably PartitionMagic, that can change the size of the partitions dynamically, i.e., without losing data. Note, however, that this sounds very risky to me; don't even try it if you don't have a recent backup. Now, if it works, it can save you a lot of work, compared with changing partitions manually.

In Windows NT and later, there is also the possibility of having a "volume" that spans more than one physical disk (or more than one partition). It would be ideal to combine the C: and D: into a single disk, which would pressumably be called C:. But I doubt that it is possible to change the volume that contains the operating system. Once again, don't try anything if you don't have a recent backup.

HTH,

Hilmar.