C Drive Full, can I use my PC's 80Gb D Drive ?

aliEnRIK

mleandcustard wrote: »

C Drive
Total = 95Gb
Free = 8Gb

D Drive (Backup)
Total = 85Gb
Free = 81Gb

E Drive (Recover)
Total = 10 Gb
Free = 6Gb

Hence the D Drive is looking tempting as an extension of the C Drive....

Use D drive. Its a TON of space available.

Though id also recommend burning some of the C drive files to dvd as backup as well as clearing it.

darich

aliEnRIK wrote: »

You dont need to specifically call it MY DOCUMENTS
call a folder whatever you like

I heard of a virus a while back that specifically attacked the "My Documents" folder and its contents.
I'd recommend calling your new folder something different and I'd suggest it may be an idea to move your important files to a new folder called something else too.
Anything at all will do - as long as it's unique.

[Deleted User]

darich wrote: »

I heard of a virus a while back that specifically attacked the "My Documents" folder and its contents.
I'd recommend calling your new folder something different and I'd suggest it may be an idea to move your important files to a new folder called something else too.
Anything at all will do - as long as it's unique.

All a bit tin foil hat if you ask me.

Install a decent AV like Avira or Avast and don't worry yourself.

bob_a_builder

Is my machine going to blow up as ive a TON of vids n pics on my c drive

No, but as davidmt83 pointed out in his post point #1

Is a dammn fine reason to do so for your average PC user out there

Its also possible to re-designate where windows store the "my documents" file tree -( right click on My Documents , select properties)

Just moving that folder to drive would be a quick and easy to split out data and programs

aliEnRIK

bob_a_builder wrote: »

No, but as davidmt83 pointed out in his post point #1

Is a dammn fine reason to do so for your average PC user out there

Its also possible to re-designate where windows store the "my documents" file tree -( right click on My Documents , select properties)

Just moving that folder to drive would be a quick and easy to split out data and programs

Just so we're clear then ~
"should always be stored elsewhere" isnt REALLY true is it?

[Deleted User]

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Just so we're clear then ~
"should always be stored elsewhere" isnt REALLY true is it?

Preferential to be stored elsewhere.

Hair? Splitting? Anyone?

aliEnRIK

Deleted_User wrote: »

Preferential to be stored elsewhere.

Hair? Splitting? Anyone?

I run my computer however I like.
HOWEVER
This forum is to help those who arnt really that clued up about the techie side of computers. As the vast majority of computers come with ONE internal drive, which these days is usually split up into C and D (D being the RECOVERY drive *ONLY*), then i dont really want people reading that comment and panicking that theyve done something wrong by storing their holiday photos on C drive. Which by the way would be the 'default' on a windows based machine.
Im just making it known to those people that its quite safe to store on C drive (Not to mention quite normal)

bob_a_builder

(D being the RECOVERY drive *ONLY*),

And you telling people that drive is the recovery drive only !.
Is likely to worry a lot of Acer PC/Laptop owners (maybe others too) where the drive being spilt in to C: and (where it isn't the recovery drive ) is how the machince is supplied as standard.
more often than not the recovery partition is hidden from normal users anyway.

[Deleted User]

aliEnRIK wrote: »

I run my computer however I like.
HOWEVER
This forum is to help those who arnt really that clued up about the techie side of computers. As the vast majority of computers come with ONE internal drive, which these days is usually split up into C and D (D being the RECOVERY drive *ONLY*), then i dont really want people reading that comment and panicking that theyve done something wrong by storing their holiday photos on C drive. Which by the way would be the 'default' on a windows based machine.
Im just making it known to those people that its quite safe to store on C drive (Not to mention quite normal)

Sure it's safe and normal. BUT (you love caps), I'm making the case for not doing this. Also if people read my post and the whole thread in full they'd appreciate the prerequisite for the suggestion of storing personal data elsewhere.

aliEnRIK

bob_a_builder wrote: »

And you telling people that drive is the recovery drive only !.
Is likely to worry a lot of Acer PC/Laptop owners (maybe others too) where the drive being spilt in to C: and (where it isn't the recovery drive ) is how the machince is supplied as standard.
more often than not the recovery partition is hidden from normal users anyway.

I said 'usually'
As in the vast majority of computers come this way.