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My new computer came with a partitioned hard drive. I dont know why they do this. New to me. My hard drive is 120gb with 30gb of that partitioned and the 30gb listed as C drive which is getting full. The rest of the hard drive is considered the D drive What is the right way to use this type of drive? the unused part of the drive about 90gb of the space is called D drive?? Why do they do this can you make it one or is this recommended?? -- Robert -- Robert |
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This is a good practice: the operating system on a separate (smaller)
partition and the rest of the files (software, documents, movies) on another (larger) partition. And it will be easier for you in case you'll want to reinstall the operating system. The reinstallation will not affect the other files. Those are just a few reasons for that. -- Andrei Ungureanu www.eventid.net Free Windows event logs reports http://www.altairtech.ca/evlog/ "Robert" wrote in message ... Hi My new computer came with a partitioned hard drive. I dont know why they do this. New to me. My hard drive is 120gb with 30gb of that partitioned and the 30gb listed as C drive which is getting full. The rest of the hard drive is considered the D drive What is the right way to use this type of drive? the unused part of the drive about 90gb of the space is called D drive?? Why do they do this can you make it one or is this recommended?? -- Robert -- Robert |
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The usual way is to leave the OS and programs on C: and
keep all your data on D:. That's very handy. For example, if you install something that blows up the OS, you can recover your last backup of the system without worrying about any changes made to your data since that last backup. You can do whatever you want with it but I think it's already the best way. |
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It's good practice to partition large drives. You've probably heard it said,
"Don't put all your eggs in one basket". That advice will make a lot more sense when you're faced with a need to restore your hard drive and you don't have a backup of anything. If you really want to recombine both partitions into one, you'll need a third party utility like Partition Magic. Here's an article worth reading: PLANNING YOUR PARTITIONS http://winsupportcenter.com/a/parts.htm -- Hope this helps..Reply in newsgroup only. Eric McGillicudy "Robert" wrote in message ... Hi My new computer came with a partitioned hard drive. I dont know why they do this. New to me. My hard drive is 120gb with 30gb of that partitioned and the 30gb listed as C drive which is getting full. The rest of the hard drive is considered the D drive What is the right way to use this type of drive? the unused part of the drive about 90gb of the space is called D drive?? Why do they do this can you make it one or is this recommended?? -- Robert -- Robert |
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You can move your My Documents Folder and it's contents to D by right
clicking the My Documents icon and select Properties. Then change the path to D:\My Documents. That will free up space on C. The files you save to the My Documents folder will now be located on the D partition which comes in handy if you ever need to reinstall your operating system onto C. If you find you can't boot your system you can copy files from C to D before you reinstall the OS. A little freeware app called NTFS Reader For DOS will enable you to do the transfer. You can also move your Outlook Express store. Create a New folder in your D partition. Call it something like D:\OEStore. Then launch Outlook Express go to Tools-Options-Maintenance-Store button and direct it to the new folder you created. Now all your e-mail is safely tucked away on D. If you reinstall the OS on C your e-mail won't be lost. You can also schedule backups to D and copy files there. Or you can purchase a decent third party backup tool like Acronis TrueImage and schedule it to periodically backup your system D. Think of it like having 2 hard drives. The main difference is that if your drive fails though both partition might be lost so always backup important data to a secure source like CD/DVD, second hard drive or the like. -- Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User] www.webtree.ca/windowsxp "Robert" wrote in message ... Hi My new computer came with a partitioned hard drive. I dont know why they do this. New to me. My hard drive is 120gb with 30gb of that partitioned and the 30gb listed as C drive which is getting full. The rest of the hard drive is considered the D drive What is the right way to use this type of drive? the unused part of the drive about 90gb of the space is called D drive?? Why do they do this can you make it one or is this recommended?? -- Robert -- Robert |
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Robert wrote:
My new computer came with a partitioned hard drive. I dont know why they do this. New to me. My hard drive is 120gb with 30gb of that partitioned and the 30gb listed as C drive which is getting full. The rest of the hard drive is considered the D drive This is the third time you have asked this in as many hours. This is not a high-interaction system, but is putting out questions to people all around the world, and it may be 24 hours to get an answer. You have been answered - go back and look (and that is a sensible division of a disk) -- Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies) Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit) |
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