The ever esteemed Ken Blake, MVP replied, with the utmost intelligence:
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> On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:03:09 -0500, ST <stastor@xxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Hello,
>>
>> My laptop has two hard drives. C has Vista on it and along with updates
>> it's almost full. D drive is much larger. I'd like any new programs to
>> automatically install to D. Is there a way to do that?
>
>
> You've already gotten answers to your question, but I'd like to add a
> point and a suggestion.
>
> Are you sure it has two drives? With a laptop, it's more likely that
> it has *one* drive that's divided into two partitions.
>
> Assuming the latter, your best course of action may be to change it to
> a single partition instead of two. You can do that with third-party
> software. Partition Magic is the best-known such program, but there
> are freeware/shareware alternatives. One such program is BootIt Next
> Generation. It's shareware, but comes with a free 30-day trial, so you
> should be able to do what you want within that 30 days. I haven't used
> it myself (because I've never needed to use *any* such program), but
> it comes highly recommended by several other MVPs here.
>
> Whatever software you use, make sure you have a good backup before
> beginning. Although there's no reason to expect a problem, things
> *can* go wrong.
>
>
>
Hello,
Thanks for the reply. Here's my computer hard disk info:
384GB hard drive capacity
With a 320GB serial ATA hard drive (5400 rpm) and a 64GB solid-state
drive offers plenty of storage space.
I'm not all that geeky so I don't know if that is one or two separate
drives, but my Vista is on the C: 64 gig drive.
Thanks again,
ST