I have an Acer Aspire Desktop with Vista 64 and 3 gigs of RAM. The hard drive (600 gigabytes) is dividede into C:\ (300 gigabytes) and D:\ Data (300 gigabytes). I do not know much about computers; I used the C: drive until it filled up and discovered that I should have been putting data into the D:\ Data drive but prevously I had no idea what the D: Data was nor what it was for. Now my C: drive is so full I cannot even defrag it. I was told by a friend that I should to move all the Data (Documents, Pictures, Music) over to the D:\Data drive and I have no idea how to do this.
I have searched the forums and come up with some methods but there is some information that I do not understand and would like clarified. I have a documents folder under Desktop\Edward\Documents and then I find a documents folder under Computer\C:\users\Edward\Documents and they both have the same files under each. Are these really separate Document folders? If they are the same and I drag one to D:\ Data disk will the other still remain on the C:\ disk? If so can I safely delete it. my C:\ disk is too full there is only 3 gigs of space left on it and it will not defrag. I have to get rid of half the stuff on it. What can I move to the D:\ Data disk besides Documents, Pictures and Music?
Someone wrote
The Documents folder is situated at C:\users\yourname\documents In the default setting dialog box you will see the current position of the documents file, i.e., c:\users\username\Documents
below the location dialog box you will see three buttons:
When I select Start a pop up appears that has a black column on the right side and in that column appears a Documents button, a Pictures button and a Music button when you run your mouse over these titles. Can I just drag and copy these into the D:\ Data disk and after that when I select Start again and select any of these buttons will it take me to the D:\ Data disk and to the data that I just selected?
Sluggo123
I have searched the forums and come up with some methods but there is some information that I do not understand and would like clarified. I have a documents folder under Desktop\Edward\Documents and then I find a documents folder under Computer\C:\users\Edward\Documents and they both have the same files under each. Are these really separate Document folders? If they are the same and I drag one to D:\ Data disk will the other still remain on the C:\ disk? If so can I safely delete it. my C:\ disk is too full there is only 3 gigs of space left on it and it will not defrag. I have to get rid of half the stuff on it. What can I move to the D:\ Data disk besides Documents, Pictures and Music?
Someone wrote
The Documents folder is situated at C:\users\yourname\documents In the default setting dialog box you will see the current position of the documents file, i.e., c:\users\username\Documents
below the location dialog box you will see three buttons:
- Restore Default
- Move
- Find Target
When I select Start a pop up appears that has a black column on the right side and in that column appears a Documents button, a Pictures button and a Music button when you run your mouse over these titles. Can I just drag and copy these into the D:\ Data disk and after that when I select Start again and select any of these buttons will it take me to the D:\ Data disk and to the data that I just selected?
Sluggo123