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FreshFrost · 01-07-2008, 04:17 AM

When I bought my laptop, its 160GB HDD came separated in two partitions (is that the correct terminology?) = C: drive and D: drive.

I left it that way, and so far have only used C: because 1) I have no experience in using more than one drive, 2) that's where most programs download to anyway, 3) it contains the My Documents folder where I organise all my personal files into My Pictures, My Music, My Videos, etc. folders., and 4) I had not yet run out of space.
However, despite deleting what I can and buying an external HDD on which to archive and back things up, my C: has now used up its ~70GB of storage.

I've read up on partitions a little and believe that that's how my laptop's memory is organised. I'd like to ask ...

is my assumption correct? and if not, what is the explanation for the memory being split into C: and D: ?
which files are best (or at least safe) for moving from my C: to my D: drive?
how do I go about safely moving them?
will everything continue running smoothly after I move these files? or do I need to point programs, applications, etc. to the new location of the files?
is there anything else I should worry about (or at least take into consideration) before/when doing this?
there seems to be a lot of talk about the benefits of organising your files in partitions. how can I optimise my use of these two (C: and D: ) drives?
lastly, I noticed that my C: drive runs on FAT32 and my D: runs on NTFS. Does that affect anything?

As you can see, I'm a total partition-newbie. So thanks in advance to anyone who's read this ^ and posted that v

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01-07-2008, 04:17 AM	#1 (permalink)
FreshFrost Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 8 OS: Windows	How to organise partitions, transfer files from C: to D: ..? When I bought my laptop, its 160GB HDD came separated in two partitions (is that the correct terminology?) = C: drive and D: drive. I left it that way, and so far have only used C: because 1) I have no experience in using more than one drive, 2) that's where most programs download to anyway, 3) it contains the My Documents folder where I organise all my personal files into My Pictures, My Music, My Videos, etc. folders., and 4) I had not yet run out of space. However, despite deleting what I can and buying an external HDD on which to archive and back things up, my C: has now used up its ~70GB of storage. I've read up on partitions a little and believe that that's how my laptop's memory is organised. I'd like to ask ... is my assumption correct? and if not, what is the explanation for the memory being split into C: and D: ? which files are best (or at least safe) for moving from my C: to my D: drive? how do I go about safely moving them? will everything continue running smoothly after I move these files? or do I need to point programs, applications, etc. to the new location of the files? is there anything else I should worry about (or at least take into consideration) before/when doing this? there seems to be a lot of talk about the benefits of organising your files in partitions. how can I optimise my use of these two (C: and D: ) drives? lastly, I noticed that my C: drive runs on FAT32 and my D: runs on NTFS. Does that affect anything? As you can see, I'm a total partition-newbie. So thanks in advance to anyone who's read this ^ and posted that v : .