Small C Drive 20 GB .. Help Please

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Hi I have a Samsung Laptop with 20 GB :C Drive and 441 GB :D Drive ... The C is almost full hence i was trying to move some space to the C. Issue is that each are on two different Disks as displayed by the disk management tool. I would appreciate you help on how to increase the C space ... i tried to free some of the D however i failed to move that space to the Disk where the C is on. Thanks
 

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System One

  • OS
    8.1
If you have many programs installed on C: then this post:
http://www.eightforums.com/general-support/24537-moving-program-files-folder-another-partition.html

might be useful. Or you could uninstall then reinstall on the other drive. But if done right the hard link should work fine. I used to move directories on Linux all the time and just make a link so that environment variables etc.. continued to work. In Windows you also need the Registry settings to keep working. They should also follow the link.

If you have an external USB or other drive you may want to back everything up first.
Also if your swap file is on C: you could move that to the other drive.

Also system specs is helpful. Saves asking a bunch of "do you have this?" questions.
 

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System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.0 x64
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Toshiba Satelite C55D-A Laptop
    CPU
    AMD EI 1200
    Memory
    4 gb DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    Raedon 340 MB dedicated Ram
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Built in
    Screen Resolution
    1366 x 768
    Hard Drives
    640 GB (spinner) Sata II
    Keyboard
    Built in
    Mouse
    Touch pad
You probably should partition your big drive so that there are 3 partitions. The first where boot files are kept which would be called the system partition (100 MB size) and set as the active partition too. The second should be also a primary partition where you can have Windows and programs installed to, known as the boot partition (200-300 GB in size, as you wish) and the third partition also primary where you can move all the data on it now to be kept.

When done, you can format the small drive then use it as your temp folder drive and pagefile drive.

You can do a clone from boot partition and system partition of your current small C drive to the correct partitions on the big drive, when the big drive is ready.

Acronis Disk Director is good to use for this.

But, lots also depends on your bios - if it is UEFI or not.

We can best help advise about it, if interested in doing something like this, if you post a screenshot of your current Disk Management screen.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    7601.18247.x86fre.win7sp1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Self-built Intel based
    CPU
    Pentium D 925 3.0 GHz socket 775, Presler @ ~ 3.2 GHz
    Motherboard
    Intel DQ965MT
    Memory
    Hyundai 2 GB DDR2 @ 333 MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    ASUS DirectCU II HD7790-DC2OC-2GD5 Radeon HD 7790 2GB 128-Bit GDDR5
    Sound Card
    MOTU Traveler firewire interface
    Hard Drives
    1 Seagate Barracuda SATA II system/boot drive 80 GB, 2 Western Digital hdds - 1 is SATA II Caviar Black 1 TB attached to card (assorted media, page, temp), other is SATA I 420 GB (games, media, downloads)
    PSU
    Thermaltake 450W
    Cooling
    stock Gateway cooling, extra large fan in rear of case
    Keyboard
    Alienware/Microsoft Internet kb
    Mouse
    Logitech M510
    Internet Speed
    Optimum Online, fast for US
    Browser
    Pale Moon
    Antivirus
    Kaspersky integrated into ZoneAlarm+Antivirus
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