Partitioned hard drive on laptop

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I have a laptop with either a partitioned hard drive or 2 seperate ones, they are called C & D. Now C seems to be the default drive that stores everything where as D is totally empty, is there any advantage to using D to store photos etc & C to run everyday tasks:shrug:, im guesssing that if everything is on C this will slow the running of the laptop down:shrug:

All important stuff is backed up to external hard drives for safety, but seems daft having this drive empty.

If this is the case, then how the hell do I move files to the D drive:bang:

Thanks in advance for any help advice I get.
 
What model is the laptop? The reason I ask is does it actually have two hard drives?

If it only has one it will be partitioned.

You should just be able to drag and drop the files to the D drive.
 
sep9001 said:
What model is the laptop? The reason I ask is does it actually have two hard drives?

If it only has one it will be partitioned.

You should just be able to drag and drop the files to the D drive.
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Its a samsung R710 laptop, will check online now to see if it 2 or a partitioned drive, will spreading the files over to D make a differnence?
 
What sizes are the two drives?

What I'd do in this situation is move "My Documents" to D drive if it is significantly larger.
 
Simple check is go to my computer right clock on the cdrive and select properties and then hardware it will show u a list of physical drives (just be aware your dvd/cd drve will alos appear. if there are two hard drives then u got 2 otherwise its partioned which i would expect laptops with 2 internal hard drivers arent common.

Moving your data/my documents/pictures to the D drive wont make it faster but it will stop you running out of disk and make backup easier. Also once you move it defrag the c drive that could well help with speed.

If you need any help with how to's just shout

JD
 
Bring up two windows, one of C drive and one of D drive

Drag whatever you want to the D drive then delete it from the C drive, simples!
 
neil_g said:
if it was me, personally id delete the d: partition then extend c: into the space.
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Yeah but if it was you, there would be no need to ask how to move files!

So I very much doubt if he can amalgamate D :gag:
 
Go on Neil why/ not being funny just wondered why youd do it that way, dont think there is a right or wrong just different opinions
 
Mikesphotaes said:
Yeah but if it was you, there would be no need to ask how to move files!

So I very much doubt if he can amalgamate D :gag:
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he'd only need ask :)

jd.smith said:
Go on Neil why/ not being funny just wondered why youd do it that way, dont think there is a right or wrong just different opinions
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personally i dont like paritioning a single drive. becides the OP has data backed up on a separate drive so the old "if you need to reinstall windows your data is intact" argument is null. still vunerable to drive failure and better to have an external backup.
 
ukglyn said:
Both drives are 144 gb, Like I say D is completely empty, where as C is half full.
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You generally don't get 144 gig drives but you do get 320gig drives (usually ends up being about 300 gig in reality - 300 divided by 2 = 150, which is near enough 144) so it will be one drive which is partitioned. You can move My Documents onto that drive by Right Clicking the My Documents folder and looking at the property sheet there. Use the "move" option and when prompted do you want to copy all the files from the old location, confirm.



neil_g said:
personally i dont like paritioning a single drive. becides the OP has data backed up on a separate drive so the old "if you need to reinstall windows your data is intact" argument is null. still vunerable to drive failure and better to have an external backup.
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I used to be obsessed with partitioning and so I'd have an OS drive, a drive for my pagefile, and then a data drive. My server still has evidence of this treatment in place so creating the shares was interesting. It worked out ok though - the old 4GB partition that I did use for the pagefile became a 4GB share for all my software installers.

Now I've came to my senses a bit I'd agree and keep it simple - one partition filling the disk is generally fine, although I think Windows 7 creates its own hidden partition at the very beginning of the disk, for boot data.
 
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ukglyn said:
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I have a laptop with either a partitioned hard drive or 2 seperate ones, they are called C & D. Now C seems to be the default drive that stores everything where as D is totally empty, is there any advantage to using D to store photos etc & C to run everyday tasks:shrug:, im guesssing that if everything is on C this will slow the running of the laptop down:shrug:
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About a year ago I partitioned my niece's laptop drive into 2 drives, C and D.

The C drive was running XP Pro and the D drive was used for DATA - photos, itunes etc.

Recently it got attacked by a virus or something and really slowed down with a slew of error messages.

I re-installed XP Pro onto the C drive and bingo - everything worked again but a few pics she had stored on the C drive were gone.

And that is the best reason I know for partitioning a Hard drive.

A secondary one is that since the C drive will usually be installed on the outside of the disc at its fastest areas your laptop could run a bit faster when moving and copying files etc.

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