Questions about D drive on Dell's

I should probably know this by now but, I only got a 60 gig hard drive of which 37.2 GB is for the local disk C and 12.5 for the back-up D.

Forgetting the discrepancy in the math between the two not totaling 60 (unless someone wants to explain it again) only .1 GB of the back-up is being used. Wouldn't I be better off allocating more to C and how would I do it, short of a re-install?

What's in the D, and how much should I leave?

 

First is that a 60gb hard drive is seen differently by windows than the manufacturers. It has to do with one counting a gig as 1000mb and the other as 1024. So a 60gb advertised hard drive will have about 56gbs of actual usable space.

As for your second question, it's up to you if you want to relocate more to the C drive. If you don't need much backup space, then go for it. You would need a program that does this, like norton partition magic. You have the option there of deleting partitions and merging them with the main partition, or deleting only a section of a certain partition and then merging that to the main one.

There are other programs that do this, searching would be your best bet and most likely resulting in freewares as apposed to a costly one like NPM.

 

Thanks. I don't really need any space on back up, other than the hidden files I guess, as I have a 120 GB WD passport that I back up photos and music too. I suppose if I leave a couple gigs it should be OK.

One of the reasons I'm looking to do this is that if I ever upgrade to Vista I'm told I need atleast 40 GB and now I'm falling short.