Re: 2 partition drive

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"Ken Blake" wrote:

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I am running out of space on my 1st drive C and wonder what I could
move
from
the C drive to the D drive to make more room on the first drive?


Before answering your question. please answer the following questions:

1. How big is each of the partitions?

C is 17.0 GB and D is 17.2 GB

2. What do you keep on each of them?

On C: Documents and Settings, Drivers, Windows, Sysinfo (and a little
more
of this and that).
On D: My Documents, Dias, Pictures and a few other small folders.

3. Did you set up the partitions, and with what purpose? What advantages
did
you plan to get by dividing things as you did?

No I didn´t set up the partitions myself, they were there when I bought
the
computer (new).


You have a total of 34GB? By today's standards that's tiny. The best
solution to your problem is not moving things form one partition to
another but buying a new bigger drive, either as a replacement or as a
second drive..



Yes it is tiny these days, but moving files to free up space might be the
ideal solution (and free) depending on her usage. If it's modest, and the
machine is only used, say, for web browsing, e-mail and creating relatively
small documents, and disk space consumption is comparatively slow, I'd say
there isn't really any need to buy a new disk and go through the hassle of
reinstalling/imaging. Not yet, anyway.

That said, it's something of a moot point if Monica is going to buy a new
computer anyway!

Well, if you don´t think I need to buy a new computer, since I don´t use that much space, my original question remains; what could I move from the cCdrive to the D-drive?
Monica

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