Hoping for some advice from the experts.
Have a 2 terabyte hard drive which I partitioned into .2 TB "C drive" and 1.8 TB "D drive". Thought I would keep programs on the C drive and data on the D drive. Sadly, I find that the free space on the C drive is often reduced to less than 10-12 GB and things begin to slow down and I get warnings when processing. I respond by using "disk cleanup" and search for things to delete and general clean up to recover some free space.
I have Lightroom, Photoshop, and several Topaz products all currently installed on the C drive.
What I'd like to do is uninstall the Adobe and Topaz products and re-install them on the D drive (which has 1.3 TB to spare) and free up a bunch of space on the C drive.
Looking for warnings about how I not lose connection to all the files the Adobe and Topaz products need to preserve several years work.
Of course I'll back up both drives before doing anything else.
big-guy
Loc: Peterborough Ontario Canada
I strongly recommend you resize your C partition to 500 Gb instead of the 200 you currently have. You can do this by using MS Computer Management>Disk Management (right click on My Computer/This PC and choose Manage) Then click on Disk Management, when the list populates go to the bottom middle portion where the drives are graphically show and click on D:\, right click and choose Shrink Volume. Shrink it to 1.5 Tb. When done click on the C:\ right click and choose Extend Volume. Extend it to the max permitted (0.5 Tb)
All that said, I can see no useful reason to partition 1 drive into 2. Any serious problem with 1 drive will effect the other and I speak from experience... painful experience. :(
Why not go buy a 500 Gb drive, SSD or regular and clone your C drive onto it and then you can delete your current C drive and extend your D drive to the full 2 Tb.
Thanks, for the quick response. I'll mull it over and see what others have to say as well, before plunging in. As you might guess, I am a professional procrastinator!
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