Low Disc Space On Laptop

izzitme

Hi everyone

I have started to get the "Low Disc Space" warning on my laptop. The details are as follows;
Partition C: 621 MB free of 51.1 GB
Partition 47.9 GB free of 50.8 GB

How do I go about moving data from C to D? Is it just drag & drop?

After I have done this & freed up space on C, how do I get programs etc to save to D instead of C?

Many thanks for your advice.

Lifeforms

Over drives, drag and drop will just copy, not move. So do that, then delete the original, or "cut" using Control X and then paste to the new location.

Consider removing old programs you don't use, as well as data (if not used to additionally free up space), save what you can on the D drive data wise, photos, vids, music etc.

If you still have space issues, find out what the biggest user of space is on your programs, you might have unnecessary space being used there. Avoid splitting programs over two drives if you can. it can cause issues.

Also consider going back to the start, and do a factory reset or reinstall windows if this is an ongoing issue, then repartition the hdd so you have more space on c, less on D as you use C more.

robmar0se

Lifeforms wrote: »

Over drives, drag and drop will just copy, not move. So do that, then delete the original, or "cut" using Control X and then paste to the new location.

The advice above is dangerous. The system recognises the location of these folders, so if you do the above the My Docs links would be lost.

The Personal folder locations can be moved, to the D drive, but it depends on what OS you are using. For example on Win 7 by right clicking on the folder you will see a tab called "location" - there is a procedure for moving this with the contents.

Let us know and we can advise.

John_Gray

+n for robmar0se's comment to be very careful about moving folders from C: !

Kernel_Sanders

Do you actually have over 50GB of programmes and files? It could be something else, such as restore points building up.

izzitme

robmar0se wrote: »

The advice above is dangerous. The system recognises the location of these folders, so if you do the above the My Docs links would be lost.

The Personal folder locations can be moved, to the D drive, but it depends on what OS you are using. For example on Win 7 by right clicking on the folder you will see a tab called "location" - there is a procedure for moving this with the contents.

Let us know and we can advise.

Thanks for info so far. I am using Windows Vista.

izzitme

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

Do you actually have over 50GB of programmes and files? It could be something else, such as restore points building up.

I will check tomorrow.

robmar0se

izzitme wrote: »

Thanks for info so far. I am using Windows Vista.

the procedure for Vista is v similar to 7.

1. On your C drive, go to users, then your folders, you should see 11 folders from Contacts to Video.
2. On the D drive create a folder with your user name, and within that create 11 folders with precisely the same name (I usually create 11 new folders and then rename), check the spelling.
3. On the original folder on C (start with an unimportnat one to get practice), right click, then click on location, and then on the "move" tab. Next browse to the similarly named folder on the D drive and click on "select". Next in the new pop-up panel; if the original and target folder names are the same, then click on "yes". Now your data will be moved, may take some time for the larger folders.
4.Finally click on OK, then go onto the next.

Once you have done this clean-up and defrag your C drive. You can then decide if you need to make further changes (which I doubt).

General advice is always have a backup of yr critical data to cover yourself if things go wrong.