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Hi,

I've got a feeling this a bit of a dumb question.

My laptop, (duel core, 250GB), which is working fine, has
30% free on it's C drive and is empty on the data/E drive.

Is this how it's supposed to be? (to make the computer run smoothly), or is it ok to move and store pics/vids/files over to the other drive to even things up?

Thanks.
 
Are you sure the E drive is not a CD or DVD Rom?

If it is another partition then you will be fine to move data onto that drive, eg Photos and Videos.

I take it you back them up regularly?

30% free space it not a problem, but if you have free space elsewhere then it makes sense to use it. Running low on space can cause performance issues since files cannot be written contiguously and become fragemented.
 
The Dual core is the processor. The 250GB, C drive (and E drive probably) are the hard drive.
Somebody who knows PC's better should advise on where to store stuff, I'd get that bit wrong.
 
yeah youll find some vendors partition the drive in to 2.. bit pointless really in my opinion.

but yeah you can move your documents, vids and photos etc over on to it.. just remember to update any shortcuts/librarys.
 
My Kal said:
It's not the disc drive.

The C drive is 116GB.
The (data) E drive is 114GB.
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It sounds like you have a single hard drive that has been partitioned. I have the same set up but it is C drive and F drive.

Any software is installed on the C drive and I have all my files stored on the F drive. you will be fine to do exactly the same.

Basically it is just a separate area of the same drive you are already using.
 
Rob is correct...and if you have only filled 30% of one partition (30-40gb) then there is no needs to worry, you'll only really see problems when you have less than 10Gb free.

You photos and music will just sit there doing nothing 99% of the time, the thing that slows a computer down (aside from having very little space left) is having loads of programs all doing things at the same time.
 
Really you should store all your data on the E drive, and of course back all your important stuff to an external drive of some sotr.

The reason to keep you data on the E drive is then, if needed (and you probably will do at some stage) you can re install windows on your C drive, which will probably include formatting it, without damaging the files on the E drive.

So people install all their programs onto a seperate drive, but if you have the space this doesn't make much sense, as if you do reinstall window you will have to reinstall al the programs anyway.

You are safe to move/copy tehm from C to E explorer will do this for you.

Most PC's now also come with another very small partition, whch contains recovery data and often the whole windows install mechanism so they don't have to give you a Windows disc.

Hope this helps
 
Trevor said:
Really you should store all your data on the E drive, and of course back all your important stuff to an external drive of some sotr.

The reason to keep you data on the E drive is then, if needed (and you probably will do at some stage) you can re install windows on your C drive, which will probably include formatting it, without damaging the files on the E drive.

So people install all their programs onto a seperate drive, but if you have the space this doesn't make much sense, as if you do reinstall window you will have to reinstall al the programs anyway.

You are safe to move/copy tehm from C to E explorer will do this for you.

Most PC's now also come with another very small partition, whch contains recovery data and often the whole windows install mechanism so they don't have to give you a Windows disc.

Hope this helps
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:agree:

Just had my laptop repaired, they reinstalled Windows but it did not affect my data :)

In Vista, not sure about any other OS, if you click Start, Rt Click on Pictures (or Music or Documents etc) then click on Properties and select the Location tab you can choose to store the Pictures folder (or Music or Documents folders etc) on the E drive.
 
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