Difference in usage between D Drive and C Drive?
I have a relatively new (as in, unused) computer. After beginning to do all my initial installations, I am seeing that there is a D Drive and a C Drive. I personally have never seen this, but I just continued my installation process regardless.
However, what I am noticing is that my C drive is being used very minimally, and my D Drive is where everything is going on. I have about 90% free space in my C Drive, and about 5-10% free space in my D Drive.
Is there a way I can "switch" to start saving on the C drive? Is there a way to move files from the D drive to the C drive? What is the difference? Is the D drive just an added drive for added space, or is it a little more serious? Is my computer at risk for anything right now?
Thanks!
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No problem at all. C, D, E, etc drives are just partition just like you dividers in a wardrobe. If you want to transfer/move the file just select the files/folders you want to transfer, right click, cut, and then paste it to different drive/partition/folder.
Under any Microsoft OS partitioning is not a good idea. It has become a fashion accessory to create multiple partitions on Windows machines because sensible OS do this. It does no good whatsoever, it does not protect anything, a virus infection will attack both drives, and if the disk fails it loses both drives. And wherever you try to load programs, the largest part of them, library files and registry entries MUST go on the system drive. So you are better to remove everything from the D: drive, then delete the partition. Then you can expand the C: drive to use the free space. Under Vista or 7 this can be done from the disk manager. On earlier versions you would need to search for a partition manager to use.
if you d drive getting filled faster the your operating system must have been installed in d drive so when you install new programs it will be installed in you d drive run the disk cleanup wizard to delete unnecessary and unused files and next time u install games and copy movies then do it in a drive that does not contain the operating systems
Your D drive is your recovery partition. It's only large enough to hold the recovery files, which is why it appears to be full. The C drive is where everything is going. it's just that you have so much free space on C and it doesn't appear to as full even though it does contain more information.
install windows on C drive and configure your bios to boot off of C drive and then drive D will be strictly secondary
create a back up and format, and then install windows on your C drive,