Windows 8.1 Hard Drive question

[Andrew Davies Photography]

Morning All

In the process of changing to a new PC and it has win 8.1 installed , it also has 2TB hard drive SATA3

However on looking the c: drive only has 149mb and the D: all the rest , is this a new way of going about things for windows , i have installed most of my common programs which automitcally install to c : programs and already used 50gb so a bit worried about this c:drive running out in no time.

Also looking in the Disk Management section the D: drive seems to have 5 partitions set up ?

Computer is an ASUS M series

cheers for any help in advance

 

[Byker28i]

Have you got anything on the D drive yet?

In 8.1 you can extend and shrink partitions, so you could shrink the D partition and extend the C:

 

[Byker28i]

Oh and take a backup first. It's now File History (use search). If you look in the bottom left corner you'll find system backup which is a full backup. I'd do one of them and a file history backup too, use an external usb drive.

 

[ancient_mariner]

Someone's done the old partition trick, which isn't needed any more. It's definitely not at all a new way of doing things, but a very backward one.

 

[4wd]

Maybe the C drive is a separate SSD?
Having separate partitions on the main storage won't hurt especially if there is more than one user with their own stuff. Not sure abut five though.

 

[Andrew Davies Photography]

cheers for the replies

this is a brand new machine factory sealed and I have started transferring things on to the D drive , all the programs i have installed so far lightroom photoshop etc automatically went to C

this is what my disk management reads:
Disk 0 : 800mb recovery partition ;260mb EFI System Partition; windows(c : )150gb NTFS; Data(d : )1693GB NTFS; 17.91GB recovrry partition

so it seems to have five partitions two for recovery one for EFI ? and then one for windows boot and one for data

I have just been in and used the shrink option to take out 350gb from D , however when i go into C it will not let me extend it into there ?

 

[landwomble]

Its not right. Usually windows creates a tiny partition and hides it for recovery purposes, e.g. mb not GB.
For some reason its been picked up on install and windows has assigned the next letter D to the system drive.
It'll work but would bug me. Personally I'd wipe, delete all partitions and create a new one and reinstall but appreciate that's a PITA

 

[Andrew Davies Photography]

Unfortunately its a little more than a PITA i have just spent literally days reinstalling all my programs finding passwords etc etc !

Is there no way of getting that c partition to increase ?

 

[landwomble]

I'd try easeus partition manager. I'd still be annoyed that the system drive was D tho!

 

[Andrew Davies Photography]

just downloaded partition wizard and had to create a new one next to that one so it could move it over , works though . It is using C as the system drive for new installs etc , that was my worry but now have figured out the software can see how to do it without having to uninstall everything again , thanks for the help