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| 1413627 | 2015-12-31 18:55:00 | Recently I bought an 8" 2-in-1 laptop with windows 10 pre-installed: capacity 1GB and 16 GB storage. I notice that C Drive is almost full. I installed a D Drive with micro SD of 64GB. How do I move stuff from Drive C to this Drive D so that I can continue downloading program or stuff into my laptop? When I tried to download online McAfee Total Protection program it automatically uses C and notified me that my drive is full. Is there a way I can load stuff into D directly or a way of moving stuff from C to D first then do the downloading? Appreciate help. Thanks CHIN3927 | CHIN3927 (17430) | ||
| 1413628 | 2015-12-31 19:16:00 | Unless you can install programs (Or the install gives you an option to install to an SD card) you cant. I wouldn't use Mcafee, it's crap. If you didnt have probs you will if you install it Dont think you can just move programs from onboard to the sd card. Info is also stored in the registry. And if you move things around, the registry wont know / it wont change everything to D. Everything will fail to run / load |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1413629 | 2015-12-31 19:33:00 | These Tablets with 16 GB storage are compromised they need 32GB even adding 32/64Gb storage card does not help when adding programs and big updates Have a Nextbook 8" Windows 8.1 16Gb storage and with Office 2016 installed there is 2.75Gb Free even doing updates you have to split them as you run out of room |
Lawrence (2987) | ||
| 1413630 | 2015-12-31 20:59:00 | Some software will let you specify where it installs, just always pick the custom install option. However the issue is windows is not designed to install software to a removable drive and might not give you the option. All you can do to make space is go through the list of installed software and uninstall anything you don't use. You could also move the swap file if it'll let you and disable hibernation if it's enabled to free up a bit more. You can also move any pictures/videos/ files to the removable drive. I have a 32GB tablet and it's ok but I would struggle with any less space. Currently with very little installed it's using 20GB of the 28.4 total available space. I think anyone who releases a windows device with only 16GB of storage is at best being overly optimistic and at worst deliberately selling something that will always be of very limited use. You will have to juggle programs, possibly having to uninstall old ones to fit new ones. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1413631 | 2016-01-01 18:40:00 | Most kind of you to have given much such enlightenment such promptly. I do learn a lot from you responses, thanks and much appreciated CHIN3927 |
CHIN3927 (17430) | ||
| 1413632 | 2016-01-01 22:53:00 | I have an Asus 701 7" notebook with a 4GB solid state drive. When it was running XP Home I used an SD Card for software and Data. I also had to increase the RAM because there wasn't room for a large swap file on C and Windows would not allow me to place the swap file on the SD Card. I turned virtual memory off. It now runs Puppy Linux with no problems. One thing you have to watch is that the assigned Letter to the SD Card can change if you plug in a USB stick. For this reason I assigned "Z" to the card. |
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