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Resolved "Dual" drive clean-up

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  1. 2021/11/17
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    chaosrn Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    I have a Dell Inspiron 3593,i3 core, C: 46.33 GB (1.10GB free), D:1000 GB (9.88 GB free).
    My question is this: what can i move from the C drive to the D drive to free space ?
     
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    Bill SuperGeek WindowsBBS Team Member

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    Are you sure about the amount of free space on your D drive?

    You definitely need to free up some space on your C drive, but with only 9.88GB free on the D drive, that still would not leave enough free space on C. Windows needs a large chunk of free disk space on its boot drive to operate freely in. This free space is used to store temporary files - files that are created every time Windows runs and opens a file, and every time you start a program. The Page File needs space to operate in. Other programs (like your security programs) need free disk space to operate in.

    If those values are correct, you need to take some drastic measures to free up space, or buy more space.

    Have you run Disk Cleanup on both drives? If you have CCleaner already installed, you can run that. If you do not have it already installed, don't install it. You cannot afford to use up anymore space.

    Then go through the Programs and Features applet in Control Panel and uninstall any program you downloaded and installed that you don't use.

    But note these are all temporary solutions because your C drive is too small to begin with. I generally recommend no smaller than 128GB for the boot drive.
     
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    chaosrn Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    i mis-typed the info..... as to the space available on the d: drive

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    Bill SuperGeek WindowsBBS Team Member

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    Can't do that. These are separate physical drives, not 2 partitions on the same drive.

    @chaosrn - my advice from above remains the same. You need to first clean out the clutter and uninstall programs you installed but are not using.

    You can also follow this tutorial to move your Downloads Folder to your D drive. Then, if you scroll down on that tutorial, you will see another for moving your Documents folder.
     
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    Agreed. You can move the entire User directory main folders to the other drive. (Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Favorites, Music, Pictures, Videos)
    Also, use Disk Cleanup to free up space on the C drive, located in the Menu beneath Windows Administrative Tools.

    The odd thing is that your C drive IS 128 GB total and only 40 GB is the partition on it for the operating system install. What other partitions are on that drive and in use? I suspect there is a hidden Recovery partition, but that should not be using 88 GB of space on the drive. Something is awry there. Open Windows Disk Management and view Drive 1, it should list the partitions on it and you may just be able to extend the C drive.
     
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    Bill SuperGeek WindowsBBS Team Member

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    Oops! I missed that. I went on the information provided in the opening post.

    That being the case, my apologies to @rsinfo. If the remaining portion of that 128GB drive is not being used, then for sure, his advice to use a tool like EaseUS Partition Master to use the entire disk as the boot drive is certainly the best course of action - on top of making sure the drives are clean of clutter.
     
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    does this provide more info ?
    should i still us EaseUS partition master ?
     

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    It depends on what you want to do... But Disk Mgnt will allocate the space and make another partition.
     
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    According to Disk Mgmt you have 74.5 GB of Unallocated Space immediately after the C partition. Thus you can use Disk Mgmt to extend C into the unallocated space.
    Right click the C partition in Disk Mgmt and select "Extend volume". Follow the prompts...might as well use all of the unallocated space.
     
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    TonyT

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    Any results extending the C drive yet?
     
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    chaosrn Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    it worked !
    Thank you all!
     
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    Well done!
     

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