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Hi...noob here...

I was given this LP as a present with it loaded with Vista. It appears to have a 320gig HD partition with a C & D drive(see pic).

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Number of Disk Controller : 1

Number of Hard Disk : 1

Number of CD-ROM Drive : 1

Drives Letters : C:\ D:\ E:\

Drive C: (Hard Disk) : 9 GB available on 47 GB

Drive D: (Hard Disk) : 259 GB available on 264 GB

Drive E: (DVD-Rom) : 0 KB available on 3 GB

What is mostly filling the OS "C" drive was already there...I did add a couple of games. So my question is when it fills up will apps flow over to the "D" drive? I realize I can direct them to the D drive but many appear needed to be placed in folders like "Proram Files" & "Pictures" etc. with resides in the OS "C" drive.

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No they will not flow over to the other partition.

You can move some space from D to C with a partition manager.

I've used this one with excellent results.

http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

Thanks for the info. Why would they partition a drive like this...whats the reason for it? Anyway, can this program make it one full drive again?

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Well as usual I mess up thing pretty good. After the changes it tried to reboot but couldn't. It tried to repair....couldn't then looked for a restore point but its a new LP so there wasn't one. So figuring I couldn't screw it up anymore I fooled with the bios and damn if it did boot to vista...dumb luck.

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It is definitely a good idea to have additional partitions aside from the OS partition. You can use it to store your data (documents, pictures, music), and you can use it as a backup partition. The way you have repartitioned it does not look useful to me. Also, you can probably remove many useless data from the OS partition using http://www.ccleaner.com/

P.S. please upload images and screenshots directly here at the forum, rather than at 3rd-party websites.

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