C drive nearly full

firbyfred

I have been checking my son's laptop and the C drive is quite full 6.5GB free of 49.5GB, but .
the D drive has 49.4GB free of 49.5GB
I need to check to see if anything can be uninstalled/deleted etc.
Is there an easy way to move thinks into the D drive? and what sort of things can be moved over.
The laptop is an aser aspire 4920 with Vista.
Thanks for help.

posted_2

video/music etc.

6.5GB is plenty, no need to start uninstalling programs, try ccleaner

You can merge c and d together if you like, but it could possibly break the recovery partition function if you have one

http://www.winvistaclub.com/t11.html

PeterPerfect

My laptop is split between two drives, the c: drive has the OS and some applications, whilst the d: drive has any data, such docs, images etc present. There maybe some applications also installed. You still have plenty of space left. The problem is that if you start installing large applications on your C: drive, then it may get filled up. Also depending upon how much memory you have installed, the virtual memory (pagefile) may become an issue in the future.

firbyfred

I have checked some of his files, he has been doing a lot of stop/motion (WWW wrestling videos), there is 26 videos mostly 5 figure KB in size, one of the videos is 222,312 KB, when I hover over the file it says 217 MB.
I am not sure but these seem big files, could these be moved over to the D drive?

posted_2

yes, or converted to mpg/compressed/better codec, but 1 217MB file on it's own is not that big compared to the size of the disk