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| 656150 | 2008-04-05 08:44:00 | We have a laptop that has a partitioned hard drive of which only one seems to be accessed, i.e., everything saves to only one half which of course fulls up while the other half basically sits empty. Is there any reason for this and can we change it? Thanks, Sheryll |
sticks (13586) | ||
| 656151 | 2008-04-05 08:56:00 | Might be the restore partition, which reverts the system to its original settings / config | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 656152 | 2008-04-05 08:57:00 | That's probably the way the manufacturer set it up. I think Acer splits it's hard drives in two. You can 'remap' My Documents/My Pictures etc to the second partition if the first one if full. Copy entire My Documents folder and subfolders to the second partition (say D:\Files\My Documents). Right-click My Documents on the Start Menu or desktop; click Properties. Click the Target tab and type in the target path (eg D:\Files\My Documents). Click OK and dont copy the files as it's already been done. Youll notice that when you save files they will go onto the second partition now. |
jwil1 (65) | ||
| 656153 | 2008-04-05 21:55:00 | We have a laptop that has a partitioned hard drive of which only one seems to be accessed, i.e., everything saves to only one half l By default MS Office etc will save to C:\MyDocuments\xx. And when you install programs unless you choose Custom it will install to c:\ProgramFiles\xx. So just change it. Install to D:\xx, save things to d:xx |
pctek (84) | ||
| 656154 | 2008-04-06 07:39:00 | So just change it. Install to D:\xx, save things to d:xx Not sure what you are saying here - there is no reason why you cannot install programs to C: drive and re-direct My Documents to D: drive is there? |
johnd (85) | ||
| 656155 | 2008-04-06 10:03:00 | Thank you very much for your replies. Now understand how it works and have "moved" existing docs to other hard drive and redirected where things automatically get saved. Awesome forum. Thanks Sheryll |
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