Can anyone please help me... I currently have a laptop to which it shows 2 hard drives, a C and a D drive, these are both about 40gb each and are built in to the laptop. Everything defaults to drive C and I have ended up with no room left on C but D being practically empty. Even though I have transferred quite a few files over the memory on C is still low and therefore runs slow at times.... Tomorrow I am going to re format my laptop and start from scratch, I was wondering if anyone knows a way of combining the hard drives and having one big drive rather than 2. Cheers...
Not sure you can if they are physically separate drives. But its better not to anyway.</p> Have the operating system and all its crap on the c: drive, and all your files on d:. That way you can reinstall the operating system etc, and still keep all of your files separate. The first thing I do with a new machine/drive is partition it so you can keep stuff apart. I usually have about 6 partitions. A partition just for swap and cache files can also be useful. </p> You can move the my documents folder to the d: drive if you use that.</p>
You have to be careful with generic named units they often have the operating system ghosted onto the d drive or a group of identifying files hidden in the d drive so that it will reinstall from the recovery disc. If it isn;t the case then you can format the hard drive and make the partitions any size you want. Easiest way to do that is to get the drive set up disk from the makers site., ie Seagate, Western Digital etc,
An alternative to reformatting Firstly, clean up your C drive. Start Menu > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk cleanup. </p> Then go into Control Panel and Add/Remove programs. Get rid, firstly of any crap you don't use.</p> If this doesn't free up enough space, deinstall a few programs you have the original disk and serial for, to reinstall. Then do Start Menu > Run and type regedit. Press enter. </p> In the registry editor, in the left hand window browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion.</p> Find "ProgramFilesDir" (NOT ProgramFilesPath!) in the right hand window and double click it. It should currently be set to C:\Program files Change it to D:\Program Files and close the registry editor.</p> Reboot your machine</p> Now when you install anything, including reinstalling the stuff you took off, it'll install them to your D Drive. Yes, it's a bit untidy but a reformat loses everything. This will at least buy you time to ensure you have everything you could possibly need backed up before you take the plunge and reformat.</p>
