Saving to wrong Drive

It just dawned on me, that all my installs on my new laptop went into the "os install" partition (c drive).
But the data (d drive) is the one I need to use (as it has all the space).
How can I get it all to move without any problems?


Ok its in 2 partitions, but is there a way to combine them or something?

Please help quickly as this is annoying, and thanks in adavance

 

Well, you could slice some of the space off of the d:\ partition and then reallocate it to the c:\ partition, or you could uninstall the apps you meant to install on the d:\ partition, and then reinstall them onto the d:\ partition. That is about the scope of your alternatives here.

 

Problem with just moving them is all the program registry entries and shortcuts are going to point to the old C: location.

Really there is no easier way than to uninstall and install them again that I can think of.

 

I tried to do the "slice and add method" last night, but I couldn't add to C.
And when I tried installing something to d:\, like steam, it "prepared" by making a folder in c:\....

 

What tool did you use? It is not as simple as just slice and add. You need to:

1. Slice off some of the D: partition. (This will create unallocated space AFTER the D: partition.)
   Looking at a map: [C:] - [D:] - [empty space]
2. Move the D: partition down so that the now unallocated space created by step one is AFTER the C: partition.
   Now the map looks like: [C:] - [empty space] - [D:]
3. Add the unallocated space to the C: partition.

Gary

 

I was using disk management with computer manage ment, but i can't drag d:

 

Nope, the built in tool does not support that. Easus, BootIT NG and Gparted will all do this though. I think Easus and Gparted are free.

Gary

 

Okay, I'm downloading Easus
It worked!
Thanks for the help!