Hi, Forum, I am hoping someone can help me. I have a Sony Laptop VAIO K PCG-K415B. My C drive is nearly full and I can't defragment it! I have plenty of room on my D drive but I don't know how enlarge my C drive and reduce my D Drive. I have 2 questions ~ What is the D drive for? What can I do to increase my C drive? Thanks,
If you have one harddrive in your system, the C drive is your primary drive and the D drive is a partition off of your C Drive (assuming the D drive is not your CD/DVD rom drive). This D drive is possibly reserved for System Recovery Console Files which bring your system back from the dead when things go terribly wrong. -I don't recomment tampering with files in your D drive. Your options are: -If your data on the C drive is important to you, you could back it up by mooving it to CDs or DVDs -You can try solid state containers such as USB flash drives. ($10 for a 4GB; $20 for a 8GB; $40-$60 for a 16GB and $100 for a 32 GB on newegg.com Computer Hardware> Flash Memory & Readers> USB Flash Drives- if you're interested) You can Purchase an external Hard Drive which would be a bit more expensive but you can have 500GB of storage for about $80. Again, on newegg.com. ___________ -If your data is not important to you, you can just delete some of it by uninstalling some unused applications/software and manually removing documents from the C drive and the Recycling Bin. ___________ --To squeze the last bit of space from your Hard Drive you can: -Run Disk Cleanup and delete all temporary windows files allong with everything else you can find the except for "Compress old Files" (do not recommend) -Clear your Browser Cache/History/Cookies -Empty the Recycling Bin ___________ The bottom line is, there's not much you can do about getting space from your HDD without deleting stuff. And doing Disk Cleanup and the rest of the stuff below it will not do any good for you in the long run. Your best bet is to just invest in a nice, mobile, spacious external Hard Drive. External Drives Page They also have them in a very small (physical) size that run off the USB port power and do not need to be plugged into the wall. 320GB USB External from WD (this is the "no power cord" one) Hope this helps. (sorry about me always directing you to newegg, I love them, they saved my life a 100 times)
Thanks, Jaggy, I do have an external Harddrive, it is a Toshiba with 232GB. I keep all my files and photos on it. My C drive jjust has programs on it. It is 13.9GB total size with 1GB free. My D drive is 13.9 total size with 15.5GB free. Can I move anything to my D Drive? If so what kind of programs. Thanks for your help. Papabob
If you want to properly move a program, any program, to another medium and have it work properly I would just un-install in on your drive C and re-install it on drive D by selecting install location in your installation wizard. When everything works fine, you can go and delete any leftovers from the program on the C drive, of course making sure that the files are NOT user settings and files. You can also install things on your external. They would only work when you have the external running and plugged in. I hope this helps.
Is there ANYTHING on your D: drive ???? Is it empty or is it for Recovery ??? If D: drive is empty you can use Partition Magic to shrink D: drive and add to C: drive..
Thanks, Jaggy and Ghostman. My D: drive has only 0.7GB on it and some of that is what I have put on it, such as Weather Channel. Do you think partition magic would work for me? I would only want to move a couple of GB's, just so I could defragment C: drive. Anyway thanks for taking the time to respond to me. Papabob.
This happened to me with my Sony Viao, Partition Magic will fix the problem. LEARN FROM MY MISTAKES: Defrag the D drive BEFORE resizing it, horrible data loss may result from not doing so:doh: Thanks, ~3321thec
