TSGL: what to do with a FOUR GIG drive?

[Engineman1 at aol.com]

I recommend using a mounted drive.
 
A 4 gig drive is big enough to run win XP if you don't let files build  up on 
it.
 
Your "documents and settings" folder is the most likely to do  this because 
of folders such as my music, my pictures, cookies, my  documents etc. which 
keep increasing in size.
 
You can "mount" this folder in an empty folder on your D drive where you  
have much more room and these files and folders will still appear in the same  
place but will actually be stored in D.
 
Here is the info to do this:
 
_http://www.alonsoshares.com/viewtopic.php?p=279&sid=808db51798ce895152ef9cfa9
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Engineman
 
 
<In a message dated 3/5/2008 10:33:24 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
annandchuck at yahoo.com writes:

I have a  weird situation. I got a used HP desktop. The 80-gig harddrive was
not  booting.
A techie friend suggested he would get me going with a new  (used)
harddrive.
He came over and put it in, loaded XP and Office, as  licensed,
and a few utilities and then we checked Properties on the drive  and I was
astonished to see it was about 80% full ! He said "Yep, that's a  four gig
drive"

So, after all that I have a computer that can't be  used to store much of
anything
or install more programs on.

So, I  took off the jumpers from the 80-gig and put it in as a slave.
Formatted  it, and wrote it full of files to test it out. It appears fine. 

Now,  my questions. Should I keep that configuration, or should I instead
toss  the 4gigger and get an OS and Office put onto the 80? 

If I should  switch, how do I go about it? I don't have a CD for windows
or office. I  suppose I could use Open Office instead of Office. Is there a
reliable  inexpensive alternative to win-XP? I assume, once booted now, there
is no  way to transfer the XP OS onto the 80gig. 

Could/should I put an OS on  the 80 now, with it as slave, and then remove
the 4gig, set the jumpers on  the 80 back to Master, and hook it up?
I kinda know what I'm doing, but  haven't been through this before and need
a plan.
Thanks,  Chuck






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