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On my laptop I have 2 hard dives, 1 is full & 1 is empty, how do I go about organising/ splitting the content in them so I don't get warnings about not enough memory? but still able to access everything without having to find which drive they are in.
Please excuse my ignorance on this matter.
Right-click My Documents, go to Properties, change the Target to somewhere on the new drive.
(On Vista / 7, you do this with subfolders inside users/(username) instead)
Is this a partitioned drive?
If it is I would expand the first partition (Remove the partitioning)
Yes, it's Vista, don't know anything about partitions or changing targets tho, can you explain more?
I'm not sure I can make it simpler than "right click" but I'll have a go.
Go to Computer, C: drive, Users, (your user name). In there you'll see all your data folders - your My Documents, Desktop etc.
For each one you want to move, right-click the folder and pick Properties. (You'll see the size of the folder listed there for reference.)
Click on Location and you'll see where the folder is physically located on the disk. For my My Documents, it's "C:\Users\Cougar\Documents".
You can change this folder to be on your D: drive (assuming that's your second disk letter). Just change the C: to D: at the beginning.
You'll be prompted as to whether you want to create the new folder (yes), and then whether you want to Move the data. Vista is 'clever' when it comes to these folders - it'll track the links and do all the donkey work for you.
Rinse and repeat for the other folders.
If it's one physical disk with two partitions on it (ie, C: and D: are two halves of the same thing), you [i]could [/i]repartition it as Rich suggests to make one big C: partition instead. However there's a risk in doing this and I wouldn't advise it unless you've a good idea what you're doing. Resizing partitions can easily cause data loss.
Thanks Cougar for taking the time to explain to a simpleton, all is well.