Moving programs to D drive

Short of getting a larger HDD, I'm running out of space on my C drive (OS and programs) and would like to either move my programs to D "data" drive, or resize the drives.

Currently, C is 30GB with <10 GB free but I want to install a large program that takes about 5GB. D is 80+ with 36GB free.

So, what do you think, move programs, repartition the HDD, or?

 

Install it on D. It is advisable to have programs on C but not mandatory. It happens to run out of space so install where you have it. Reg entries will be the same but rather than directing to C they will direct to D.

 

Can't say anything different.
Just instal it to drive D:

You may think about increasing your C drive if its a partition though - I beleive some people have done it before.

 

OK, I'll install it on D. How about moving another large program to D, how would I do that and leaving the rest alone?

 

I suppose I could uninstall and reinstall but it's like 9 disks. A Delorme mapping program

 

Moving it just like that won't work in most cases due to the registry entries.

Unistal it and instal it agian - its possible the best idea.

 

Thanks all. I'll install the new program to D and uninstall, reinstall the existing one.

 

Make sure you use CC Cleaner and delete the old registry entries. No point in having them double. ONLY DELETE THE ENTRIES PERTAINING TO YOUR UNINSTALLED SOFTWARE!!

 

Yeah thanks, I always to that. What's surprising after using Revo uninstaller, in advanced mode, CC Cleaner still finds a couple left over registry entries.

 

the User folder consumes lot of space due to hidden folder 'AppData'..its located on C..try locating it to D.

 

For a desktop machine that has more than one physical hard drive (or the rare notebook that has more than one physical hard drive) it can make a great deal of sense to locate most of your "user data" onto a separate drive. However, on any machine with only one drive (that cannot have a second physical drive installed) IMHO it makes no sense whatsoever to have partitions and thereby multiple "drives". The exception to this of course is multiple operating systems. If you have XP, Vista, and Ubuntu on your machine, you will almost certainly want at least 3, perhaps 4 partitions. Again, IMHO, partitioning a single hard drive into multiple "drives" for the purpose of segregating data, or for backup/recovery, actually complicates these processes. My experience has been that a physical drive fails far more often than the need or desire to reformat a partition.

 

Not quite.
Say you save a lot (and I mean a lot, 1000 or more) small files on partition D:
Then your NTFS filesystem for D will take up a lot of space, even when you move the files away...

But you can safely format partition D.

Also, you could resinstal the OS on parttion C and keep files on D

 

HDD management is easier with several partitions. I don't mix OS with music, games, films and whatnot. My important data is always on an independent SATA drive but I will never have a C drive with over 100 GB. It is pointless.

 

Wishmaker - if you've got 2 encyclopedias you've used 10GB - say you run the MS Visual Suite, Express edition its another few GB ...

A C partition with more than 100GB can make sense, depending on your software.

But I feel the same regarding files like Music, University Work etcetera.

 

yeah in my desktop i use a separate drive for anything storage. music movies files downloads pics etc.. and leave only running programs on my main raid array