Dell Windows 10 Inspiron 7580

I'm confused w/ DELL's operating system.
I have 64 bit...8 GB memory...1 TB/128 GB SSD...
QUESTION: There's 2 drives now...not just C:\drive.
Everything I do goes into this C:\os drive and all of a sudden this drive ends up all red, out of memory.
Why 2 drives...and do u now have to manually delete incoming data and transfer it into DATA D:\drive?
Does the SSD increase in data or stay the same?

 

First of all they are not C:\ or D:\ drives.

You have 2 hard drives (well one is an SSD). Each of those drives has only one (visible) partition / volume on it with an associated drive letter ie C:\ & D:\

Think of it like a filing cabinet. Each of your drives currently have only one folder occupying the whole drive / filing cabinet. But you could create more folders on each drive and in so doing would create more partitions / volumes / folders.

You laptop has 2 drives. A fast boot drive, the SSD, where the o/s and programs are installed and a 1TB (normal) HDD for you to store you data on. This is a v good set up.

When you save your data, you should save it directly to the 1TB drive and not to the smaller 128Gb SSD

 

Thanks so much...I am clear on it now. Have a good day!

 

Actually...though still wondering what signifies ( Programs )....i.e,....ITUNES is in both drives as are a few more programs. I have approx 50 gb remaining out of the original 128 gb. I noticed that when I did a backup of my IPHONE...all the backup ended up in the SSD drive putting the drive into the red zone and had DELL remove those files back into the 1 Tb drive. That was very time consuming. Everything seems to go into COMPUTER C/:OS...and that tells me data is going into the SSD drive and I should remove them and put them in a folder on the 1Tb drive...this is confusing.

 

When you install a program, look at the installation path and change it to the D drive.
Also, in the program's settings, change the default location for saving files to a folder on D.

 

iTunes will have a default setting for saves in My Documents located on C:\ (as do others)

You need to either change the default save location in iTunes (which I rarely use) as Eldon has stated or move My Documents to D:\

 

Thankyou so much!