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    Partitioned hard drive in Y410?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by edgeguy, Jan 17, 2010.

  1. edgeguy

    edgeguy Newbie

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    Have been using a Y410 for about 2 years now and the C drive is dangerously close to full. Have tried to remove/defrag/clean-up as much as possible and moved all documents, photos, etc. to D drive but still C drive space is shrinking. Is there a way to re-allocate the size of the two respective drives so that the effective space of the C drive is larger?
     
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    Renee Notebook Virtuoso

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    D drive????
    You can compress the application files. That's the only way to create space.
    Putting other drives on the same physical disk will eventually eat up space with MFD space.
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    Renee Notebook Virtuoso

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    What processor are you using? Is the system doing automated backups of any kind?
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    Thanks for your response, Renee. The Lenovo has an Intel Cenrino 1.66GHz processor. If it's doing automated back-ups, it would have to have been a default setting, as I've changed nothing. According to the display at My Computer, there is a 29.2GB Local Disk [C:] and a 105GB Lenovo [D:] Disk drive. Although the unitiated (like me...) would assume the laptop has 2 disk drives, the hardware manager only indicates one Hitachi hard drive containing 2 "volumes" , C and D. Therefore I'm assuming (dangerous) that it a single disk, partitioned in some manner and since I'm down to less than 2GB on the C drive, I'm wondering if the disk space can be re-partitioned or re-allocated in some way... any further thoughts? Thanks so much.
     
    edgeguy, Jan 18, 2010
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