Storage on two drives

My Vista based comp. is showing me to have 79% free space in my C drive and
only 13% in my D drive. If D fills up will C automatically be used? Can I
control which Drive I wan to use for stoage? Why is everything going into D
drive?
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"rick" <> wrote in message
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> My Vista based comp. is showing me to have 79% free space in my C drive
> and
> only 13% in my D drive. If D fills up will C automatically be used? Can I
> control which Drive I wan to use for stoage? Why is everything going into
> D
> drive?
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> NONE


If your D drive is the recovery partition, nothing should be going in there.
Why do you think that it is?

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On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:07:03 -0800, rick <>
wrote:

> My Vista based comp. is showing me to have 79% free space in my C drive and
> only 13% in my D drive. If D fills up will C automatically be used?


No.


> Can I
> control which Drive I wan to use for stoage?


Yes.


> Why is everything going into D
> drive?



Because your defaults are set there. Whenever you save a file, you are
shown where it will be saved by default. You can either accept that
default or navigate elsewhere if you choose. You apparently need to do
the latter.

Defaults are normally saved, so if you change it once, the new default
will be what you changed it to.

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:47:55 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
<> wrote:

>On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:07:03 -0800, rick <>
>wrote:
>
>> My Vista based comp. is showing me to have 79% free space in my C drive and
>> only 13% in my D drive. If D fills up will C automatically be used?
>
>
>No.
>
>
>> Can I
>> control which Drive I wan to use for stoage?
>
>
>Yes.
>
>
>> Why is everything going into D
>> drive?
>
>
>
>Because your defaults are set there. Whenever you save a file, you are
>shown where it will be saved by default. You can either accept that
>default or navigate elsewhere if you choose. You apparently need to do
>the latter.
>
>Defaults are normally saved, so if you change it once, the new default
>will be what you changed it to.

I have two drives, currently C: and D:. Is there any way to map the D: drive so
it appears as a part of C:? For example, saving to a particular folder on C:
actually writes to the D: drive?

You can use Junctions to create a link to D:\ from a folder in C:

The Link Shellextension tool should help you do this easily:
http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinks...kshellext.html

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"Richard" <> wrote in message
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>
> I have two drives, currently C: and D:. Is there any way to map the D:
> drive so
> it appears as a part of C:? For example, saving to a particular folder on
> C:
> actually writes to the D: drive?

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

> On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:07:03 -0800, rick <>
> wrote:
>
> > My Vista based comp. is showing me to have 79% free space in my C drive and
> > only 13% in my D drive. If D fills up will C automatically be used?
>
>
> No.
>
>
> > Can I
> > control which Drive I wan to use for stoage?
>
>
> Yes.
>
>
> > Why is everything going into D
> > drive?
>
>
>
> Because your defaults are set there. Whenever you save a file, you are
> shown where it will be saved by default. You can either accept that
> default or navigate elsewhere if you choose. You apparently need to do
> the latter.
>
> Defaults are normally saved, so if you change it once, the new default
> will be what you changed it to.
>
> --
> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
> Please Reply to the Newsgroup
>

Ken- can you please help me?? I have a laptop with 2 drives. Everything is
saved to the C. It now only has about 9% free space and the D is basically
empty. What folders/files etc should I or can I move to the D drive, without
screwing up how everything runs? Or will it even affect anything? I though
I'd just drag our Documents & Settings to the D.... I dont' want to this up!
thanks to anyone that can help.

On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:28:01 -0800, Angela R
<> wrote:

>
>
> "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:07:03 -0800, rick <>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > My Vista based comp. is showing me to have 79% free space in my C drive and
> > > only 13% in my D drive. If D fills up will C automatically be used?
> >
> >
> > No.
> >
> >
> > > Can I
> > > control which Drive I wan to use for stoage?
> >
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> >
> > > Why is everything going into D
> > > drive?
> >
> >
> >
> > Because your defaults are set there. Whenever you save a file, you are
> > shown where it will be saved by default. You can either accept that
> > default or navigate elsewhere if you choose. You apparently need to do
> > the latter.
> >
> > Defaults are normally saved, so if you change it once, the new default
> > will be what you changed it to.
> >
> > --
> > Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
> > Please Reply to the Newsgroup
> >
>
> Ken- can you please help me?? I have a laptop with 2 drives.


Two drives, or two partitions?


> Everything is
> saved to the C. It now only has about 9% free space and the D is basically
> empty.


How big is each drive or partition?

What do you have on C:? What kinds of files, and roughly how much (in
GB) of each kind?


> What folders/files etc should I or can I move to the D drive, without
> screwing up how everything runs?


Answer the questions above first. But in general you can move files
you've created (documents, pictures, music, etc.), but not program
files.




> Or will it even affect anything? I though
> I'd just drag our Documents & Settings to the D.... I dont' want to this up!
> thanks to anyone that can help.

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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