i recently bought a new pc and everything is fine but i was looking through the hard drive and

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http://puu.sh/7jLar.png i saw this. the windows hard rive is almost full and nothing is installing in the other drive which has over 900 gigs of space. is this normal with windows 8? will the pc use the other drive once the main drive runs out of space? or what should i do about it
 
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dodger46

Good idea to increase 'C'
Download EaseUs Partition Master
http://www.easeus.com/partition-manager/epm-free.html

At the Easeus main screen, Rt click on the pictorial representation of ‘D’ and choose ‘Resize’ Do so by moving the slider on the LEFT of the bar representing the partition to display the amount you want to increase C by.

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This will create unallocated space physically next to C to allow expansion. OK the re-sizing. Expand C into the unallocated space. OK and Apply. Your machine will shut down to allow the expansion of C before it fully boots into Windows.
Remember to back up...
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I presume you have been installing lots of stuff.. it unusual for a PC to be supplied with its C drive that full.

When you install programs they almost always default to installing on C drive. (though some, well behaved will default top the drive with the most space). but will give you options to install somewhere else. So when you installing - you should have been checking and making sure it installs on the d drive and not on the c drive.

You need move some apps as you don't want your C drive so full.

HTH
Cheers
 
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Good idea to increase 'C'
Download EaseUs Partition Master
http://www.easeus.com/partition-manager/epm-free.html

At the Easeus main screen, Rt click on the pictorial representation of ‘D’ and choose ‘Resize’ Do so by moving the slider on the LEFT of the bar representing the partition to display the amount you want to increase C by.

o5u1.png


This will create unallocated space physically next to C to allow expansion. OK the re-sizing. Expand C into the unallocated space. OK and Apply. Your machine will shut down to allow the expansion of C before it fully boots into Windows.
Remember to back up any sensitive data, no guarantees of success, but I hasten to add it's never failed me yet...


 
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Also if your User folders are large, eg. loads of music, then shift their location to 'D'
Personally I re-locate each folder manually. I create 5 'New Folders' on the target drive, navigate to each folder in turn in 'Users' (My Name). e.g. 'Desktop', Rt Click, 'Properties' and open 'Location' tab. Choose 'Move' and navigate to New Folder on the target drive and choose that folder. Click OK and continue until contents are moved. Repeat the process with next Folder e.g. 'Downloads' and move to 'New Folder(1) and so on until you have moved all folders.

 
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Care.. you can only do this is its one drive. To me it looked like you may have 2 drives.. a 128 GB SSD as your primary C drive ? and a 1 TB HDD for your secondary drive?

Cheers

 
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Correct! Glad you spotted that. minabanano - ignore my post! (Except the bit about the personal folders)

 
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