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| Thread ID: 137120 | 2014-05-24 08:17:00 | New W8 Q4 | Poppa John (284) | PC World Chat |
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| 1375756 | 2014-05-24 08:17:00 | Hi all My Asus has 2 250GB drives 1 x 500, C & D. It says C for OS & D for Data. Nearly everything is on C drive. How do I move folders etc from C to D? Thanks. PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 1375757 | 2014-05-24 09:15:00 | If its folders you have created yourself, same as any other os, Copy/Paste. If they are the default folders the OS have installed, Eg: Music, Pictures, Videos, or more important system Folders its different, as simply "moving" them as above will cause all sorts of problems, as the registry needs to have the correct path. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1375758 | 2014-05-24 23:42:00 | If its folders you have created yourself, same as any other os, Copy/Paste. If they are the default folders the OS have installed, Eg: Music, Pictures, Videos, or more important system Folders its different, as simply "moving" them as above will cause all sorts of problems, as the registry needs to have the correct path. Ok...will try today. Thanks. PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 1375759 | 2014-05-24 23:52:00 | If they are the default folders the OS have installed, Eg: Music, Pictures, Videos, or more important system Folders its different, as simply "moving" them as above will cause all sorts of problems, as the registry needs to have the correct path. Windows Vista and later are smart enough to at least change the Documents, Pictures etc. folders for you, so cutting and pasting works there. ;) |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1375760 | 2014-05-25 00:22:00 | One thing I didn't put above, copy paste is safer when changing your own created folders, that way if something goes wrong when making a copy you lose nothing, once the folder and its contents are where you want them, then you can delete the original. Seen it happen countless times people cut/paste a folder full of pictures, something isn't right - all disappear and data recovery is required. The actual way to move a system created folder eg Documents, Pictures etc. is right click the folder/Properties/ Location Tab, click MOVE, select the new location, then you'll get the warning below: 5735 As I pointed out before, simply moving the folder can cause problems. I wouldn't trust windows to "sort out its new location" automatically. It doesn't just change the location, but changes all the pointers for programs that expect a folder to be in a certain place and its not. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1375761 | 2014-05-25 06:06:00 | Wt... The 3 folders I moved were from my old XP. Copied & pasted to W8, C drive, now onto D drive. All seems ok. The amount of data on each drive doesn't seem to have changed. I assume it was too small to notice. PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 1375762 | 2014-05-25 06:35:00 | Awhhhhhhh The minor point wasn't mentioned "from my old XP" They wont cause a problem at all. Depending on how much data is in the folders, with larger drive sizes these days unless there's a reasonable amount of data, its hard to actually see a change. Example: last PC I installed had a 1TB Drive, on the persons old drive (20GB) it showed almost full. On the new install, after moving over all the photos word documents etc, (minus the god knows how many unused programs and general not wanted "junk") the 1TB drive still was mostly empty ( excluding the OS install usage), didn't make much of a dent in it at all. The ASUS will also have a hidden recovery Partition in case you're wondering where the usage is. |
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