OT: Moving programs

jjames

Okay - this is not AMX related at all. Since we all have a thing for finding certain programs to do certain things, does anyone know of a program that will move applications from one partition to the other? For example: I have all AMX software on D, but I want to move it all over to C (all on a single hard drive.) I had this "great" idea to install different programs on to different partitions. Once I get it all on C, I want to non-destructively merge the two partitions. Any help would be much appreciated.

Blah . . . I need that shirt that says: "Every great idea I have gets me in trouble."

Clingpeach

Would partitionmagic be the right application. Its made by Symantec

DHawthorne

Partition Magic and Acronis Disk Manager will both take care of merging your partitions. I'm partial to Acronis, myself; Symantec programs have a tendency towards bloat and resource hogging. They won't however, change the zillions of references to the old drive letters. PC Magazine's utility library (it has a small subscription cost ... something like $8 a year, and well worth it) has a applet called Change of Address that will go through your registry keys, ini files, and shortcuts to take care of that. It's not 100% perfect because it can't go inside program-specific data files where there may be an absolute reference, but it's adequate for most situations.

jjames

Thanks!

Thanks for the replies. I forgot about Acronis; I've used Partition Magic, but didn't quite care for it. I found a program called WinClean OneClick CleanUp, and it'll do the program move portion. Once I resize my primary partition, I should have enough room to start moving my programs. The only downside to this program that I mentioned is that I have to enter in which folders to move - and I've got quite a few. Oh well - hard lesson to learn I guess.