Mike_Taylor Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Ok, so i went out and got myself a new home computer for personal and some business use. It has a 2TB hard drive in it, but the issue im having is how the partitions and what not are set up. It came with a Gateway© partition, which im assuming is meant for all the OS and what not to be installed on as its ~45GB. The 2nd partition (D) is the rest of the space, but for some reason which I dont understand, all programs, libraries and everything else are set to the smaller of the 2 partitions, which I really do not like. Ideally what I want is windows and all default programs installed on the current c-drive and everything else (documents, pictures, videso and after market software) on the D drive. What would be the best way about doing this. I haven't dealt with an issue like this before. thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Your OS and all your programs would normally be installed on the C: drive and your data on the larger partition or D: drive. I believe it is set up correctly. You could elect to subdivide D: drive further by splitting it in two or even three thus adding a E: and maybe even an F: drive. Have you ever partitioned a drive before? Are you familiar with FDISK? You might want to consider buying a program like PartitionMagic if you haven't partitioned a drive before. What OS is installed on this new computer? Is it Windows 7? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_Taylor Posted January 15, 2012 Author Share Posted January 15, 2012 I have partitioned a drive before. What i think I need to do in order to get what I want (more room on the c-drive) if what you're saying about the set-up is correct is to partition my d drive and move the files I have there to one of the partitions. Then delete the empty partition. Would this be correct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 You think there is not going to be enough room on your C: drive for all your programs? How much bigger do you want to make it? I'd split D: drive down the middle and create a new E: drive. Leave whatever files are currently on D: drive right where they are. E: drive will be initially empty of any files. What you you use it for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_Taylor Posted January 15, 2012 Author Share Posted January 15, 2012 I only have 9GB or so left on my current C drive, which is only enough for about 2 new programs. I want my c-drive to be about 250-300 GB, and then move all my labraries (empty on my new computer right now) to my data drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 You must have a boat load of programs installed. Well it seems you have a plan so all you need to do is follow through with it. Good luck. Let us know how things turn out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_Taylor Posted January 15, 2012 Author Share Posted January 15, 2012 Ok, that wont work lol. The c-drive is the 64gb SSD, and the D is the HDD. Looks like Ill be install everything else onto the D-drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Maybe you should have mentioned that little detail when you started this thread? Yep, that's pretty important if you ask me! LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_Taylor Posted January 15, 2012 Author Share Posted January 15, 2012 Completely forgot about that until I opened the partition manager, haha. I was like "so much for that idea". Now I just need to change the directory of the Users folder and ill be good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 It isn't often I hear of someone who just got a new computer and doesn't remember how many hard drives it came with. Thanks for the chuckles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_Taylor Posted January 16, 2012 Author Share Posted January 16, 2012 Yeah, I had a bit of a hastle buying it. I ended up wanting to pay on debit as I dont have a credit card, so I had him break into 2 payments (1 of $1000 and the other the remaining) as I have a $1000 limit due to some security issues 3 years ago. So, there machine kept rejecting my card, so I had to call my dad at work, have him stop by when he was finished and put it on his credit card. I ended up having to wait for about 45 mins. I would have gone home for the wait, but the only store with that computer was 45 mins away. I have never been so furstrated/bored in my life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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