If you have inherited a Windows server with a 4GB system partition then like me you are probably screaming "Help!" as the never ending list of windows updates eats what little spare space you have.
Why 4GB? Well back in the day FAT only supported 4GB drives, and may systems had there system partitions set at 4GB. When the newer FAT32 or even NTFS came out and admins upgraded from NT to Server 2000 they simply installed over this 4Gb partition. There was also a fashion to keep your system and user areas apart as pre NTFS there was no easy way to control how many files users places on your servers.
So you have the problem, whats the solution?
Right now Im not sure, and this has now become critical as I need to upgrade to ASP 2.0 .NET but there isnt enough space left on the system disk and ASP doesnt give you and option to put it anywhere else.
My plan? Im going to try writing a VB Script to move the hidden update files from C:\ to a disk with more space and modify the registry so furture updates can find them. This script will also need to check the dates of the installs and allow me to filter them, as I only really want to risk moving those over X days old. I will need to write another script to put inidividual updates back as they are required.
This should see me clear the best part of 600MB of C: which is quite a whack when its only 4000MB to start with, hell I might even manage to get a whole spare GB, crazy.
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