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    It's really annoying me now how do I use my other hard drive?? I cant do anything because it keeps saying disk space low. Help anyone :O
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    What you will have to do is move some of the stuff from drive C to drive D. This will free up some space and then you can save whatever you need to. You can also try saving things straight into drive D.
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    Oh and definitely do not mess around with any windows files. That could mess up your whole pc.
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    Yeah I tried that but it doesn't give me an option to save in the D drive.
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    Only 60GB for the OS drive?

    Is that an SSD or something? Or is it a partition?

    Just change all the file links like my music to a file in the D drive.
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    Alternatively, you can search for "computer management" on start and add some allocated space to drive C.
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    When you are installing programs.

    Instead of just clicking next for everything and saving in the default directory.

    Choose the custom option and find the D: drive and select it as the destination for the install.
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    I have no clue I bought my laptop 2 years ago and it said 500gb hard drive but I didn't expect it to be like this I was expecting one hard drive with 500gb.

    Now I can't download anything. This is so stupid -.-
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    I've tried to add space on the C drive by shrinking the D drive but when I shrink the D drive it doesn't let me expand the C drive.
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    (Original post by binaryman)
    When you are installing programs.

    Instead of just clicking next for everything and saving in the default directory.

    Choose the custom option and find the D: drive and select it as the destination for the install.
    I was trying to update my Iphone but it didn't give me the option of choosing where to download it. It just started to download
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    (Original post by muh123)
    I have no clue I bought my laptop 2 years ago and it said 500gb hard drive but I didn't expect it to be like this I was expecting one hard drive with 500gb.

    Now I can't download anything. This is so stupid -.-
    Just save what you have downloaded to the D drive...
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    Err, cut everything except for windows files and paste to drive D. Mission complete.
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    Err, cut everything except for windows files and paste to drive D. Mission complete.
    I've also tried to do that but it said it would take like 13 hours. Also I would try to put it in the D drive but at the moment I'm trying to update my iphone and its not letting me do anything and says disk full please free some space or something along those lines. It doesn't give an option to download it to my D drive.
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    (Original post by muh123)
    I've also tried to do that but it said it would take like 13 hours. Also I would try to put it in the D drive but at the moment I'm trying to update my iphone and its not letting me do anything and says disk full please free some space or something along those lines. It doesn't give an option to download it to my D drive.
    Then move the itunes program to drive D.
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    Then move the itunes program to drive D.
    How do I do that ?
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    How do I do that ?
    I guess you could just re-install it. Before you try that, try moving it by going to "uninstall or change a program".
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    just download EASEUS and merge the partitions.
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    yo fam, update us on the progession of your mission.
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    just download EASEUS and merge the partitions.
    Sorry I'm a computer noob I have no Idea what the hell that is or how to even use it.

    Is there a way of making my D drive my main drive instead of my C drive
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    Re: How do I use my other hard drive ?? Picture explaining what I mean
    (Original post by QuantumSuicide)
    yo fam, update us on the progession of your mission.
    Yeah I don't think I want to un-install it incase I can't reinstall it. Is there anyway of just making the D drive my main drive ?
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