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My hard drive is split into two 30 gb sections, drive: c and drive: d.

Drive c is almost full, drive d is empty. How do I get the computer to utilise drive d?

if you pick it up and shake it,you should find both drives have an equal amount of free space.  you are welcome.

Does it work with people?

Tom, do you store most of your data (music, pictures, video, porn, etc.) on the C drive?  Do you store it in the 'My documents', 'My pictures', My Music' folders?

If you do there's a quick and easy way to free up some disk space on the C drive by moving your My Documents folder (I'm assuming you're on XP rather than Vista?).

http://www.techsupportalert.com/how_to_move_my_documents.htm

How is it I read this and am none the wiser? It's like a techiespeak word blindness. Amazing - I've read it 3 times and still not a word of it has gone in.  :dontask:

Because you are female, & don't understand these techie things like we men do.

Now, go clean that carpet.

Thanks for that Kin, but I only have about 5GB of pics/docks so it won't help a great deal.

What I really want to know is why the drive is partitioned if the computer can only use half of it.

Can I put programmes into the "D" drive and if I do, will they still run as normal?


PS- Take no notice of Ding, she's a girl. (Good for making tea and other stuff)

LOL, I was just about to say to Dingdell that Tikay would be along in a bit to explain it all in simple layman's terms.

Instead he was just rude.

Not the kind of thing we want round here - instaban IMO

Yes, if you choose the d drive when you install all will be fine.

If you try and copy already installed progs you can get into trouble.

Every time you install new stuff on your computer, you can manually change the C: to a D:, which will put it on D:

I wouldn't start moving program folders about willy nilly - Windows won't know it's moved and will get all stroppy when it can't find things.

The computer can use both drives, it's just it needs to be told to use D: - it'll default to c:

Why does it have two Drives?

male / female

ying and yang

But one does all the work?

Always

must be female then

one is master,one is slave

I always split the drive in 2 when I build a computer for someone,It means scandisk only takes half the time when they just turn the computer off rather than shut it down.

LOL @ scandisk.

You still inflicting Windows 95/98 on people LOL

dont shake it about, the bits from one memory wont move over to the other one, you have to kick it.

5GB is a significant percentage of 30GB n'est pas?

Install your software to D as people have suggested and also save your 'data' on D.  Then all will be fine and dandy.

You could always buy a new hardrive as well if you really wanted to. 

I'm buying a new lappy Kin, (Honest, as soon as I have a touch) I just wondered whay they did it like that.

for the sake of the forum then kick it!!

The reason I have more than one on my computers is that I install and save everything on D:

Then, if Windows gets screwed up somehow I can just nuke the C: drive and reinstall Windows without losing all my data.

FFS, someone kick their computer!

I still call it scandisk ;D, does the error checker actually have a name on XP?
I dont get involved in vista,till my brother breaks his new laptop.

I may be wrong - I'm not as 'up' on these things as I used to be, but the PC possibly came with Win98 which means it utilised the FAT32 (I'm currently using FAT44) file system which could only cope with a maximum of 32GB in one partition - hence the need to partition larger disks into useable chunks.

With the advent of the NTFS file system of Windows NT, XP & Vista this limitation no longer exists and I believe I'm right in saying that disks upto 2 TB (Terabytes - GB x 1000) can be accomodated in one partition.

I use this  http://www.partition-tool.com/easeus-partition-manager/help/resizing-and-moving-partition.htm

Pretty simple!

You need some partition software to merge the 2 drives ( which are actually one physical drive) you will then not lose any data and programs will be moved without damage

Turn your base unit upside down, it will then start saving data at the other side of the partition as default.

what about if i just push it onto it's side?

You could do that with a BBC Micro, because it had Sideways address space.

Thats just daft.  ;dingdell;