Running out of Space

My laptop PC, running Windows Vista HP SP2, has the HDD partitioned into drive C (named "Acer" (presumably after the machine's manufacturer)) which has a capacity of 50.6 GB with only 10.0 GB free. The other partition is drive D (called "Data"). This latter drive has a capacity of 47.1 GB and 39.9 GB of that is free.

Is it possible to safely allocate some of drive D's capacity to drive C? If it is, how do I do it?

(It was partitioned like this when I purchased it. I once had to completely re-install Windows from the recovery disk; it partitioned like this again on that occasion.)

 

Partitioning the drive is an Acer feature that more manufacturers should adopt and yes, it's easy to move your personal files to the second partition, where they will be safe from any OS problems and create the room on C that you need.

Click Start > your username> and right click Documents. Click Properties > Location tab > Move. Just navigate to your D drive and confirm. You will be asked whether you want to move all the files so confirm that too. You can do exacytly the same with Music and Pictures and that should ease your problem.

Any programs that save their files to Documents should recognise that it has been moved, but you do need just keep an eye on that for a while.

 

Might want to defrag after moving all files and folders.

 

Thank you, I will be doing that very soon. Thanks for the advice. I didn't know it was going to be so straightforward.

 

I will defrag afterwards, thanks.

 

I have re-located Documents from C to D drive. I have tried to do the same with Pictures and Music. However, when I attempt to do it, it says that they will be merged with Documents and then I will not be able to move them back to the original drive if I wanted to do that. Am I doing something wrong?

 

Try just changing the path manually rather than navigating. Typing D:\Music should do it.