want to enlarge C and decrease D drives in Vista

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Paula

I ahve a new notebook that came with Vista Ultimate installed and the HD
partitioned into C and D Drives. I want all my documents, Pictures etc to be
stored on D drive because C is too small. I want to have one big C drive or a
larger one. Can I do this using the Vista Disk management tools of deleting
and expanding? There is no data in the D drive.

Thanks,
Paula
 
Paula said:
I ahve a new notebook that came with Vista Ultimate installed and the HD
partitioned into C and D Drives. I want all my documents, Pictures etc to be
stored on D drive because C is too small. I want to have one big C drive or a
larger one. Can I do this using the Vista Disk management tools of deleting
and expanding? There is no data in the D drive.

Thanks,
Paula
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In a notebook with a C and D drive, the D drive is frequently the recovery
partition; if your D drive is the recovery part. it should not be used for
anything else (unless you have a recovery CD).
 
I guess if D was the recovery partition,C wouldn't be smaller than it.
Paula,please check the warranty and support agreement of your lap-top to
check whether changing the hard-disk partition table will nullify any claim
for technical support/warranty.

Paula said:
I ahve a new notebook that came with Vista Ultimate installed and the HD
partitioned into C and D Drives. I want all my documents, Pictures etc to
be
stored on D drive because C is too small. I want to have one big C drive
or a
larger one. Can I do this using the Vista Disk management tools of
deleting
and expanding? There is no data in the D drive.

Thanks,
Paula
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In a notebook with a C and D drive, the D drive is frequently the recovery
partition; if your D drive is the recovery part. it should not be used for
anything else (unless you have a recovery CD).
 
Open Documents > Organise > Properties > Location > Move
This assumes D is not a recovery partition, which I suspect it is not.
 
Thanks. I think I wasn't clear enough.

The C and D are about equal at 110 GB each. C has Vista and all data. As far
as I can see D is useless. I sued to store all docs, pictures and data on my
D rive when I had XP. Vista does not seem to allow me to put its equivalent
of "My Documents" on D. The C drive is about half full with Vista already. I
need to make it bigger or find a way to get docs and data stored and also
accessible on D.

Does what you suggest move Vista's documents, Pictures, etc, to D? Will
Vista know where to find them?

Thanks again.
Paula
 
Yes & Yes

Paula said:
Thanks. I think I wasn't clear enough.

The C and D are about equal at 110 GB each. C has Vista and all data. As
far
as I can see D is useless. I sued to store all docs, pictures and data on
my
D rive when I had XP. Vista does not seem to allow me to put its
equivalent
of "My Documents" on D. The C drive is about half full with Vista
already. I
need to make it bigger or find a way to get docs and data stored and also
accessible on D.

Does what you suggest move Vista's documents, Pictures, etc, to D? Will
Vista know where to find them?

Thanks again.
Paula
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Thank you,
Sorry for the typos. I tried what you suggested and must have go
confused.

What I have ended up with is at the Start window on right side my nam
"Paula" as profile/account, then an icon of the D Drive that is labele
D (Data) where the word "Documents" used to be. At one point I allowe
Vista to delete the Shortcut for "Documents" because it said it ha
moved. I also at one point tried to restore to defaults. Also when
tried to move "Pictures" to "D" it said what I thought meant I'd los
the label/shortcut pictures as well and all the pictures and docs woul
be mixed up on D.

Is there a way out of this? Can I rename the D Drive link or shortcu
onthe start menu back to Documents?

Thanks,
Paula
 
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