I am looking for some help. My C drive is nearly out of free space. It appears that my D drive as a great amount of free space. Can you save files/folders to D drive? Help, just a novice trying to use my computer. Thanks
Roselps, please post questions only once - it helps to keep this
newsgroups clean. Thank you.
[REPOST OF ORIGINAL ANSWER]
Yes, you can store documents and files on your D drive just like your C
drive. You can also opt to install programs to the D drive rather than
the C drive, to conserve space on C.
You may want to read the following article for information on how to
free up some space on your C drive:
http://consumer.installshield.com/kb.asp?id=q108409
I hope this was helpful.
> I am looking for some help. My C drive is nearly out of free space. It appears that my D drive as a great amount of free space. Can you save files/folders to D drive? Help, just a novice trying to use my computer. Thanks
First, try cleaning up the C:\temp, c:\windows\temp, and c:\windows\tempor~1
directories (I like temporarily adding the appropriate deltree statements to
autoexec.bat, then remarking them out when not needed). Also, empty the
recycle bin.
Then, in the system control panel, move your swap file to the d drive (make
sure it's defragged first before adjusting the settings.
> I am looking for some help. My C drive is nearly out of free space. It appears that my D drive as a great amount of free space. Can you save
files/folders to D drive? Help, just a novice trying to use my computer.
Thanks
Hoppy - 19 Feb 2004 02:41 GMT
Roselps -
Is your D: drive a partition? ... or a 2nd HDD? If D: is just a partition,
you could easily suffer major system performance degradation by moving your
swap file there. It IS generally recommended to move the swap file to the
first partition of your second HDD for a slight performance boost.
You could either re-install or move the majority of your programs to D:.
There are a couple of program movers available that do a good job of moving
programs so that you don't need to re-install them.
Actually, you have quite a few options, depending on your expertise.
Probably the best place to start is as Gerry suggests; no doubt you've
accumulated a lot of garbage over the years that is just wasting valuable
disk space. Or, with HDD's currently going for about a dollar per meg, what
about a bigger HDD? Piece of cake... just copy everything over with a
program like DriveCopy.
Sorry I don't have any URLs at my fingertips, but I've been away from this
kind of thing for a while. Hopefully, somebody else can chime in with some
specifics.
Good luck,
Tom
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First, try cleaning up the C:\temp, c:\windows\temp, and c:\windows\tempor~1
directories (I like temporarily adding the appropriate deltree statements to
autoexec.bat, then remarking them out when not needed). Also, empty the
recycle bin.
Then, in the system control panel, move your swap file to the d drive (make
sure it's defragged first before adjusting the settings.
> I am looking for some help. My C drive is nearly out of free space. It
appears that my D drive as a great amount of free space. Can you save
files/folders to D drive? Help, just a novice trying to use my computer.
Thanks