On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:46:58 -0500, ST <stastor@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> The ever esteemed Ken Blake, MVP replied, with the utmost intelligence: Quote:
> > On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:03:09 -0500, ST <stastor@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Quote:
> >> 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.
If what you say is accurate (an SSD and a hard drive), then my guess
that you had two partitions on a single drive wasn't correct.
--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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