Newbie needs help with second hard drive

kjhome9703 · 11-22-2008, 10:10 AM

Hello all, here's the situation. My aunt wanted me to add another hard drive to her computer which I was able to do without incident. The bios recognizes the additional hard drive, and I am able to save data on the second drive. The primary hard drive has 152MB of free space left, disk cleanup and defrag had zero effect on space. file system is NTFS. My question is can I have files sent directly to the second hard drive without manually doing so? And if so, how? Any info will be greatly appreciated.

**simpswr** · 11-22-2008, 10:23 AM

and welcome to the Forum

Right click on My Documents icon on the desktop . . select Properties . . click the Move button and navigate to the second drive. When it asks if you want to move the items click yes . .

This will relocate the files in My Documents and automatically use that location in the future

kjhome9703 · 11-23-2008, 12:13 PM

I will try that first, thanks for the info. Now this will move the icon as well correct?

**simpswr** · 11-23-2008, 01:16 PM

The icon stays the same place . . but the data will be redirected to the other drive

11-22-2008, 10:10 AM	#1 (permalink)
kjhome9703 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 4 OS: Windows XP	Newbie needs help with second hard drive Hello all, here's the situation. My aunt wanted me to add another hard drive to her computer which I was able to do without incident. The bios recognizes the additional hard drive, and I am able to save data on the second drive. The primary hard drive has 152MB of free space left, disk cleanup and defrag had zero effect on space. file system is NTFS. My question is can I have files sent directly to the second hard drive without manually doing so? And if so, how? Any info will be greatly appreciated.

11-22-2008, 10:23 AM	#2 (permalink)
simpswr Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: May 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 12,097 OS: XP, Vista, Win 7	Re: Newbie needs help with second hard drive and welcome to the Forum Right click on *My Documents* icon on the desktop . . select *Properties* . . click the *Move* button and navigate to the second drive. When it asks if you want to move the items click *yes* . . This will relocate the files in My Documents and automatically use that location in the future __________________ Rich MemTest86 \| BenchTest \| Virus/Trojan/Spyware Help How to post a Screen Shot \| PC running slow?

11-23-2008, 12:13 PM	#3 (permalink)
kjhome9703 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 4 OS: Windows XP	Re: Newbie needs help with second hard drive I will try that first, thanks for the info. Now this will move the icon as well correct?

11-23-2008, 01:16 PM	#4 (permalink)
simpswr Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: May 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 12,097 OS: XP, Vista, Win 7	Re: Newbie needs help with second hard drive The icon stays the same place . . but the data will be redirected to the other drive __________________ Rich MemTest86 \| BenchTest \| Virus/Trojan/Spyware Help How to post a Screen Shot \| PC running slow?