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| Thread ID: 132382 | 2013-05-15 06:10:00 | My C Drive is full and I want to move some programmes | Roscoe (6288) | Press F1 |
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| 1341429 | 2013-05-15 06:10:00 | Some programmes, as you are aware, take up a lot of space so I wondered if I could uninstall some and reinstall them on the D drive where there is plenty of room. Unfortunately, the installation process always seems to default to the C drive. Is there any way that I can install some programmes on the D drive? Is it possible to change the default setting? I have already moved many Word, etc, files, but I still need more room. Thanks for your help. |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1341430 | 2013-05-15 06:19:00 | Are these partitions on a single drive or do you have two drives? What is/are the sizes of the HDDs? | Bryan (147) | ||
| 1341431 | 2013-05-15 06:27:00 | By default they will install on the C drive but if you select custom install (most programs allow this) you can install it where you like. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1341432 | 2013-05-15 06:34:00 | You may have to do this as well. Depending on the version of windows. (32 / 64 bit) (answers.microsoft.com) | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1341433 | 2013-05-15 09:29:00 | I find user docs like music, photos and videos, take up the most room so I use the windows tool to move them to separate drives\partitions | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1341434 | 2013-05-15 22:46:00 | Are these partitions on a single drive or do you have two drives? What is/are the sizes of the HDDs? There are two drives. The C drive is 74.5gb and has 70mb free and the D drive is 149gb and has 88.7gb free, so you can see why I want to move some programmes over. Thanks for your advice, Speedy. I was not aware that I could change the default. I will go and do so. Much appreciated. |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1341435 | 2013-05-15 22:50:00 | Or just buy a bigger HD. Save yourself alot of ongoing grief. Those HD's seem hopelessly small. Are they IDE? Are you running Win XP or something else First thing to do is move the pagefile to D, That will free up some room. Uninstall & reinstall some programs on D: Expect Win to start crashing/hanging if only 70M free space. You need to sort this Urgently if thats all the free space you have. |
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| 1341436 | 2013-05-16 00:07:00 | +1 for moving pagefile superuser.com +1 for larger hard drive Any number of third party disk partition tools will copy your entire hard drive contents to another drive. I'd strongly suggest doing it by partition, instead of cloning disk to disk. If you get things backwards, you can over-write the source with the blank destination. So triple check the drives. I usually do this by noting the disk size of the source and destination. I like Acronis "Disk Director", though it's not free en.wikipedia.org |
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