Hard Drive Space

[Craigus]

I am on my mums laptop helping her archive some photo's etc, her Hard Drive is nearly full, C drive is about 60 GB but the D Drive has 400 GB. Is this normal?

Can I use some of the space from Drive D and put it on C Drive? Seems a bit odd to me.

Thanks

 

[Adam.]

Use the built in partition manager to resize D so its smaller then use the free size to extend C

 

[Gareth]

Looks like everything is being dumped on C:\ and D:\ is empty, she should be installing programs and saving data on D:\

 

[Munson]

Quickest solution there is going to be moving the documents location to D.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310147

EDIT: I think it got a bit more complex after XP, so that link might be complete blocks

 

[Andy.]

Do what Adam said. It's one drive with two partitions so just resize them. Problem solved.

 

[Munson]

Errr. So like. Just keep making D smaller until it's about 16MB?

My advice is to either remove the partition entirely or start putting data on it.

 

[Damo_Sport]

Just move images/videos over to D directory and just use that from now on

 

[Rob]

I'd start moving all data onto D:

C: should only be used for the OS and programs. Data, i.e photos or whatever, should be put straight on the D: