You don't actually have 4  physical hard drives, but rather 4 partitions on a single drive?  If so, how many total gigs does the one drive have? If it were me, I would have asked this question before I went out to buy an external hard drive.  You should consider reformatting your C partition and reinstalling the OS, whatever that is. If you do, you might want to eliminate one or more of the partitions unless you have some overarching need to see 4 drive letters or to keep stuff that compartmentalized.  You could just buy a new internal hard drive ATA100 7200 rpm 60 to 120 gig since you obviously need some space.

Have you tried cleaning out your c:\windows\temporary Internet folders and your c:\windows\temp folder?  After you do that, run scandisk and then your defragmenter.  If you haven't done any of the above in a while, you may gain some speed just be doing them.

>My 1998 DELL Dimension Computer has several hard drives: C,D,E and F.  C
>is where all new programs seem to go so it is pretty full with about 2 MB
>of space remaining.  D & E are not full at all and F is rather full.
>
>Because C was so full, I recently purchased an external drive with 60 GB
>of storage.  It presently still has about 57 GB remaining.
>
>
>I tried to keep all my programs on my hard drive and move any documents I
>have created to the external drive.  As it turned out, that did not open
>up much space on my hard drive.
>
>
>I use Microsoft Front Page and it has been working mighty slow.  I finally
>loaded that program onto my external drive and it still is mighty slow.
>
>What can I do to speed up my computer so I do not have to wait 2 minutes
>to get the curser to move as it finishes the last command, such as copying
>5 short words)?
>



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