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need a idiot's guide please ..simple as possible
thanks in advance
Find the files, Cut then Paste
Select the ones to move then right click on the folder hit cut, right click on a window for the other drive then right click paste
what version of windows ?
google for how to move libraries/documents or something similar and you should find a guide - I think "they" say it's better to move the library than just C&P as then windows permanently changes the internal links
You'll probably find your WINXS folder is about 80Gb. 😯
Got fed up of that shit years ago.
Bin the lot and go chromebook 🙂
Right-click your "Documents" (win 8 or above) or "my Documents" (Win 7 or below) folder
Select properties
Click on the location tab
Click on move
Browse to a folder or location on the d: drive. Windoze does the rest.
you can do the same with My pictures and My music.
If yer handy you can do it for %programfiles% as well.
Thanks for the help ...it's windows 7 btw
Yep I needed to do this as soon as I bought an SSD for the C drive.
What hot_fiat said works superbly.
Why is it partitioned?
just makes the hard drive have to work harder (or so i understand it)
Boot into a linux live disk and use it to expand the windows partition into the (all but) empty D drive.
need a idiot's guide please ..simple as possible
thanks in advance
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Boot into a linux live disk and use it to expand the windows partition into the (all but) empty D drive.
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Boot into a linux live disk and use it to expand the windows partition into the (all but) empty D drive.
So you don't have any concerns about the 8Gb of data that is on the D: drive that you've just told the OP to destroy without checking what it was or if it was backed up ??
Run disk cleanup first, then you can move the My Doc/music/photos directories.
Clearly the "why is it partitioned" queries that. Without that information there isn't much point in going into detail as to how to expand the partition, but it does point out that it can be done for an op who may not know. Depending on what the 8gb is changes what you might want to do with it and whether one might want to keep it or move it over to the new single partition. Of course you knew this already, but when did that stop a STWer getting their knickers in a bunch for dramatic effect.
I didn't partition it ..the laptop came like that .
The salient point here is,
"(or so i understand it)"
You don't.
Kaiser, Plenty of info only on the pros and cons of partitioning.
Never been a fan of partitioning a single drive myself. Causes more trouble than its worth, if you are worried about data recovery just get second drive, internal or external depending on your system, but a USB external drive is easiest.
A partition can speed up a drive depending on what the data is, an how you use it, but windows does a better job if left alone. (It is more likely just to extend the distance the read head has to travel between data)
Lots of info online about removing partitions. If you want to keep the 8gb you will need to work with that. Either increase the C:/ to give you enough space to copy the files across from the D:/, before then expanding the C:/ again into the remaining space.
That or just copy the files over to some secondary storage while you remove D:/ (a 32GB thumb USB drive is pretty cheap these days).
As above, you can redirect MyDocs to D:/, Clearly everything then has to be in MyDocs, which wont work if you are someone who stores all their stuff on your desktop, or programs are storing things in their own folders.
Do what hot_fiat said. Windows will follow the redirect automagically. For what you've said in the OP it's far and away the best option.
You [i]could[/i] repartition it, but it's fiddly, risky and pointless. If you were flattening it and rebuilding from scratch I'd say it's absolutely the best option on a modern system, but for something that's already running it's best left alone.
Imho etc etc, IANAohwaityesIam.