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Resolved Transferring Documents Folder

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    Lugwalker Forever Autumn Thread Starter

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    My C drive is 80% full. I was wondering if it was ok to transfer the contents of 'Documents' to the D drive which has plenty of spare space? Thank you.
     
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    Yes. No problems.
     
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    What is usually on you D drive is what was on your C drive the day you turned it on before updates and downloads. Are you sure that it has plenty of room? How much is used and what is left?
     
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    My C drive has 46.5 GB free, with the Documents folder occupying 45 GB of the drive's 219 GB. My D drive has 51 GB free of the drive's 220 GB. So, if I transferred the 45 GB Documents folder to the D drive (which would then have 5.5 GB free) I would have a C drive with 91 GB free. My thinking behind my proposal was that I might have a more efficient C drive. My computer has been taking an unusually long time to fully boot up into Windows and I thought that perhaps the C drive was a bit cramped for space and maybe causing the slow boot-up.
     
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    Evan Omo

    Evan Omo Computer Support Technician Staff

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    Hi Lugwalker.
    If your machine is taking a while to boot up because its running slowly, then following my guide that Neil, posted will help improve the performance.

    Do you have a regular hard drive in your system?

    If so I would honestly recommend getting an SSD as that hardware upgrade alone will improve your systems performance even more so then going through my optimization guide.
     
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    Thanks, guys. After following Evan's guide I now have 53GB free space on my hard drive, whereas before I only had 46.5GB. I'll keep in mind your suggestion, Evan, regarding the upgrade to an SSD.
     
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    Evan Omo

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    Thanks for the update. :)
     
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