computer help

warlocks1
warlocks1 Posts: 1,212
edited January 2010 in The Clubhouse
My daughter is out of room on her laptop. Her C drive shows 1 gig left out of 52 gigs. There is a D drive labeled Data Drive that has 50 gigs left out of 52. I believe that drive is for storing Vista, but not sure why it has been partitioned to have all that extra space. Is there a way to increase the C drive space and reduce the D drive space without losing all her Itunes and pics? Thanks, Jeff
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  • John30_30
    John30_30 Posts: 1,024
    edited January 2010
    Just show her how to move extra data to that D: drive, and let her learn to use it.
    Either that or google free partition tools
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  • everpress
    everpress Posts: 862
    edited January 2010
    She needs to back up ASAP. Get rid of all unwanted/unneeded stuff.

    You always want 10% of you HD free; any less than that and some pretty major stuff can go wrong.

    Backup, make a copy of the back up, organize, and repartition.

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  • Fongolio
    Fongolio Posts: 3,516
    edited January 2010
    I agree with the above except 20% free is what I always recommend. Especially laptops where there is usually not enough ram and the swap file is being utilized lots. Anything less than 20% and serious performance issues start happening.
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  • warlocks1
    warlocks1 Posts: 1,212
    edited January 2010
    I did it! I downloaded Easeus and had no problems. She now has 40 gigs of free space in her C drive. Thanks for the help.
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  • John30_30
    John30_30 Posts: 1,024
    edited January 2010
    Good deal. I have that on my desktop and had forgotten it was free. Either that or I got it free off http://www.giveawayoftheday.com
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