I have what I assume is a PARTITIONED hard drive in my Lenovo Vista 32 bit laptop. I am getting messages that my drive C is full and I have to get rid of some files. I put it through the CCleaner and got rid of some but apparently not ENOUGH. It shows that Drive C has 29.5 GB of space and that is all TAKEN up, however, Drive D has 105 GB of which very little has been used. I've tried to move files to Drive D and the computer really doesn't want me to Cut & Paste from the Program Files to try and move them. Is there an easy way to do this or to remove the partition so that there is just one Drive C and no Drive D or to make Drive D primary and have all downloaded programs go to Drive D?
Thank you,Post a screenshot of Disk Management...
Normally on most laptops the D:\ drive contains the Recovery Partition...which you don't wanna mess with just in case of a crash.You can't really move installed programs between partitions or drives. If the D: drive is not the recovery partition, which some are, it will be a data partition, and I would assume this to be the case due to the size of it - however, to be sure before proceeding, a screenshot would be best.
Realistically, you need to find out what's actually taking up the space - is it programs? Movies? Music? Photos? Files can be easily moved, programs would need to be uninstalled and reinstalled in the new location.Delete old System Restore points.
Recovery partition takes the place of CD's no LONGER being supplied. If the hard drive fails, you have nothing. Image backup the entire hard drive.