Re: 2 partition drive

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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


And my original answer stands! From Monday:

"Data you've created - eg MS Office documents, digital photos, music,
downloaded files. You could look into relocating/repointing your e-mail
storage, your "My Documents" folder, your pagefile, your Temporary Internet
Files folder (if you want details on any of these, just ask). Clear down
temporary files and browser cache. If any large programs or games installed
to C:\, you might want to uninstall and reinstall to D:\ (being careful to
hunt down and preserve any "game save" folders/files.

If C:\ and D:\ are on the same physical disk and if you've a good backup
system, you might want to consider repartitioning so that you only have C:\,
so that you don't end up having to do this all again in a few months' time
when space becomes short again. Or just buy a larger hard drive and
reinstall (or go the drive-imaging route with it). "


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