Drive capacity

[ianess]

My Drive C is virtually full to capacity but I have lots of spare space on Drive D. Can I transfer from one to the other OR combine both drives into one? I`m virtually a novice so please be gentle with your replies Ta.

[Mattk]

yes you can.what is filling your c: ? if its media like mp3's,movies etc etc then its simply a case of cutting and pasting to the d:

[IndieSinger]

Err... but usually (by default) the D:\ Drive is Removable Storage (usually the first CD-Rom and/or DVD drive) and not any kind of Hard Disk Drive so you can only move the files on the C:\ Drive to the D:\ Drive if you're prepared to have them on a CD-R or CD-RW.

[dodgyshirt]

Not true Indie, some manufacturers (such as Acer) partition the hard drive in a ratio of approx 60/40 with the OS on the smaller partition in order to make it more readily accessible to the System restore disk.The second partition becomes the D drive and pushes the rest down the order.

[OBonio]

Recommended install is C for OS and programs. D for user data. You can merge partitions with something like partition magic, but this will knacker the entire system if it's not done properly.

[TEAK36]

I have an Acer laptop and the hard drives are partitioned (C & D).When my C drive was full, I cut and pasted most of the contents to the D drive.If you are like me and most of the contents of C drive are downloaded files, then just change the destination folder for your downloads,for example, all of my downloads used to go to 'my shared folder' on my C drive, but I have now changed this to 'my shared folder' on D drive.