Hard drive partition info

I have a sony vaio laptop running windows mellinium edition. The hard drive C (7.43 gb) is FULL and this is causing major problems. There is a drive D (11.3 gb) that is virtually empty. I believe that the small amount of admin info on drive D needs to remain seperate from that of drive C. Since there is physically only one drive in the case I am going to assume that there is a partition that can be reallocated?.?.? Help.

 

hmm maybe try moving the my documents folder to the D partition?? it might help
right click on the my documents folder and i dunno something about moving it should be there!

 

i would say ... create a folder on the D:\ drive ... then open up your "My Documents" folder ... edit>select all .. then use the move to command to move your files to the newly created folder ... then right click "My Document" folder >properties>move ... then locate the newly created folder that you moved the contents to .. and select it

i just did it myself and i dont think you even need to copy the files before you move the my documents folder

 

LG, download, install and run these 3 every day.

Cleanup! http://www.stevengould.org/
EmpTemp http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=1575
and CrapCleaner aka CCleaner http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4191

They will help clean up all stuff that you get every time you are on the net. Shifting My Documents, as suggested, will help a lot as well. Bazza
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Thanks for the help everyone. I have moved the mydoc's folder to d: and freed up a substantial amount of disk space. I am still curious about the partition on the disk, as it really does nothing that I can tell, and it creates frustration. I know that fdisk can do some reallocating, however, when I try to eliminate the d: logical partition I continue to get an error message "disk cannot be locked". Anybody savvy on this level???

 

hmm ... if you only have ONE physical hard disk drive you can get partition magic and combine both partitions quite painlessly

 

Like Pyrate said, 'Acquire' Partition Magic (8 is latest i *think*) the select 'Merge' I believe it is and reboot a couple of times and your good to go. As for the theory on how that junk needs to be separate, i kinda think thats BS. lol. Ive had ME, and its basically 98 with crap in place of the good stuff they took out, and lots more bugs. And neither -require- a separate partition. So, if you combine those two you should have your ducks in a row then.
Btw, My reccomendation, processor and ram permitting, -Acquire- Windows Xp (preferably Pro) and install it. It will do your computer nothing but good, over Milenium Edition.
Hope all this is of some help. If you need more help, theres tons of l337 people here to help you! Just ask!