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Using space from local disk D instead of local disk C
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14-08-2014 11:23pm#1
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Are you sure it's an SSD ? Have a look in Device manager and see if there is in fact 2 physical disk drives.
If it's just one large 500GB drive that has been divided in to 2 partitions - C: &
and you have no data in the drive then you can extend the space available to C: by deleting the partition and extending the C: partition into the free space giving you a full 500GB C: partition.
Can you create a folder in the partition by the way ?
If you're not sure how to do this post back here and we can help further.
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Are you sure it's an SSD ? Have a look in Device manager and see if there is in fact 2 physical disk drives.
If it's just one large 500GB drive that has been divided in to 2 partitions - C: & and you have no data in the drive then you can extend the space available to C: by deleting the partition and extending the C: partition into the free space giving you a full 500GB C: partition.
Can you create a folder in the partition by the way ?
If you're not sure how to do this post back here and we can help further.
Ken
Yeah, positive that it's a SSD! That's the problem.. since it's a SSD and the other is a regular 500GB drive then I can't extend the space in C using the space from D, since they are two different types of drives, right?
I can create a folder in D, yes. But whenever I try to move files from C to D, all it does is copy them into D and they remain in C anyway i.e. no space is freed up.0 -
A 20GB SSD is odd ! But no, you can't do what I suggested above unfortunately.
I'm guessing all your applications are installed on the C: drive too ?
All that's left is to move files to the drive rather than copy them. You can also relocate your Documents folders to the drive - instructions here.
From then on any new music or pictures you import or download will go there rather than the C: drive. That should take the pressure off the SSD for a while.
I presume you did a clean up on the disk to clear temp files etc. ?
Ken0 -
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A 20GB SSD is odd ! But no, you can't do what I suggested above unfortunately.
I'm guessing all your applications are installed on the C: drive too ?
All that's left is to move files to the drive rather than copy them. You can also relocate your Documents folders to the drive - instructions here.
From then on any new music or pictures you import or download will go there rather than the C: drive. That should take the pressure off the SSD for a while.
I presume you did a clean up on the disk to clear temp files etc. ?
Ken
It's likely a hybrid hard disk. The SSD part for OS, the standard HDD for data. This is something Windows does not handle well at the minute. Installations by default will always point to the system drive,
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A 20GB SSD is odd ! But no, you can't do what I suggested above unfortunately.
I'm guessing all your applications are installed on the C: drive too ?
All that's left is to move files to the drive rather than copy them. You can also relocate your Documents folders to the drive - instructions here.
From then on any new music or pictures you import or download will go there rather than the C: drive. That should take the pressure off the SSD for a while.
I presume you did a clean up on the disk to clear temp files etc. ?
Ken
Like the above poster said, the 20gb SSD is only for temporary stuff so the basics on the laptop can run quicker such as start-up. It's not supposed to store all of my downloads etc. but it is! I moved all of the files and this freed up around 1GB. I did the dick cleanup consistently but eventually it was deleting nothing and I was still only left with around 20MB on C.
So should that do the trick? Will everything save into D from now on? I think the problem is that when I stream stuff online, temporary files fill my disk C and that causes the streams to crash. That was my main problem. I want the temporary files saved, while using the internet, to go into D rather than C... that way I won't go low on disk space.
By the way, there are plenty of program files saved on C that won't transfer over to D using the method you mentioned above? Stuff like anti-virus software and other programs I donwloaded directly onto C, without knowing theyd go into C. How can I transfer program files from C into D?0 -
Move your Downloads folder, Videos folder etc to your D drive and save space that way. You can right click on the folder in question, click on the Location tab, and move it across to a new location on your drive. Should free up some space for you. 0
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So should that do the trick? Will everything save into D from now on? I think the problem is that when I stream stuff online, temporary files fill my disk C and that causes the streams to crash. That was my main problem. I want the temporary files saved, while using the internet, to go into D rather than C... that way I won't go low on disk space.
By relocating your various document folders you are telling the system to save those files to the new location from then on. This includes music, pictures, video, downloads and documents folders.
You could also relocate the Swap file to the drive though this will give a slight performance hit, but if you allocate a fixed amount then it won't fragment helping things a bit. That should get you back a couple of GB. Turn off hibernation too, another few GB saved.By the way, there are plenty of program files saved on C that won't transfer over to D using the method you mentioned above? Stuff like anti-virus software and other programs I donwloaded directly onto C, without knowing theyd go into C. How can I transfer program files from C into D?
You can't easily move programs from C: to but in most cases you can tell the installer for programs where to install it, in your case choose . Certainly the better applications like Adobe and Microsoft stuff will let you install elsewhere. So if you want to do this you will need to uninstall the programs and reinstall to .
Hope this helps.
Ken0
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