Mike said:
Hi, this is my second posting as I could not see the first with the two
replies posted. So thanks in advance but would you mind posting again to this
question.
"Is there a simple way to moving storage memory from my D drive to my C
drive on my Sony Vaio laptop"
There are ways, but I wouldn't call them simple. I believe you have
a single physical hard drive, which by software magic, Windows thinks is
two separate drives? The magic involves assigning so many disk tracks
to C: and so many to D:. These divisions of the disk are called
"partitions", to use the jargon of MS-DOS & Windows. C: is one
partition, D: is another.
The simple partitioning tools (e.g. fdisk) wipe the contents of the
disk when they alter partitions. I don't think you want to go there.
There exist commercial programs such as Partition Magic that are
supposed to be able to repartition without loosing the contents. I
don't have such a program and I have never used one, so I cannot advise
you there. I do know that a lot of folk advise backing up the disk
before using tools like this. Backup is not simple, and so I am
reluctant to describe use of a repartioning program as simple. It can
be done, lots of folk have done it, but it may turn out to be tricky.
I gather that you need more space on C:? I suppose you have done the
"clean up unnecessary files" and deleted stuff you don't need, and
backed up seldom used stuff to CD-ROM?
David Starr
