Moving Office 2003 files to another hard drive on same computer

[lmaco]

My computer has two drives. My C drive is maxed out and I want to move my
Office 2003 files to the 2nd drive. Would it work if I used the move
function and moved the files to the E drive? Or do I have to uninstall and
reinstall? Thanks.

 

[bxb7668]

Uninstall and reinstall. There are a lot of links to Office in the
registry that "know" that it is installed on the C: drive. If you just
move it, those links will be broken (and so will Office).

Brian

 

[DL]

Have you moved My Documents to your other drive?
rt click My Documents icon>Properties>Move
Have you done Disk Cleanup?
Have you reduced the size of IE cache to eg 50mb
Uninstalling Office to reinstall to the other drive will not gain much

 

[lmaco]

Thanks for the responses. I did uninstall and reinstall--didn't free up much
at all. I have tried everything I can think of to free up space and am at a
loss for what it could be. The only other thing I can think of is the
Windows XP updates. I see them in add/remove programs.

 

[DL]

Did you do the other items I suggested?

Thanks for the responses. I did uninstall and reinstall--didn't free up
much
at all. I have tried everything I can think of to free up space and am at
a
loss for what it could be. The only other thing I can think of is the
Windows XP updates. I see them in add/remove programs.

 

[lmaco]

Yes, I had already done most of what you said. I did go in and changed the
cache to 50. My documents were already saved to my E drive but I did move
the My Docs file and I still am maxed out. Disk cleanup is done ever day.
It won't allow me to defrag.

When the computer was purchased it came with the two drives and the C drive
is only 8 gb. I don't know what else to do aside from reformatting the
drive. I'm not sure what I'm talking about but I believe it's one drive
partitioned into to drives. I do not believe there are two separate drives
installed. But I don't know. Time for an upgrade!

 

[Gordon]

Yes, I had already done most of what you said. I did go in and changed
the
cache to 50. My documents were already saved to my E drive but I did move
the My Docs file and I still am maxed out. Disk cleanup is done ever day.
It won't allow me to defrag.

When the computer was purchased it came with the two drives and the C
drive
is only 8 gb. I don't know what else to do aside from reformatting the
drive. I'm not sure what I'm talking about but I believe it's one drive
partitioned into to drives. I do not believe there are two separate
drives
installed. But I don't know. Time for an upgrade!

Time for a download of a third party app.
BootIT NG will allocate space from one partition to another
non-destructively.
And it gives you a fully-functional free 30 day trial.

You can get it here:
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/

 

[DL]

IMO 8gb is far too small for the o/s drive even if you install all apps to
the other and keep it clean as you would seem to be doing.
When you utilise the utility, as detailed by Gordon, configure the C to at
least 15gb
I'm assuming the other partition is of sufficient size, if your complete hd
is less than 40gb consider upgrading the hd.

 

[lmaco]

I agree 8 gb is to small. Why it was configured that way, I don't know. I
will give my boss the info about the other program to repartition the drives.
I'm not touching that one! Thanks.