Laptop Hardrive

[ChrisRS]

Hi

I've got a Sony Vaio Laptop with a hardrive seperated into C and D (Is this known as a partition?).

The split is 2 lots of 40gb, the C is 75% full and the D is empty, would moving some stuff over to D improve the performance of the Laptop?

ChrisRS

[shocker-z]

Proberly not, might be worth running a defrag on the drive to sort out the file fragmentation.

1 thing you can do to see if it's just software clogging your machine is: Click start > Run > type in the box "MSCONFIG" without the quotes > click the Startup [TAB] > click disable all

Now click OK and restart your PC and see if that's faster, some antivirus programs may not laod fully but if this increased the speed dramatically then just add ticks in half the list restart and test and so on. Also might be worth running Spybot or Adaware.


Regards
Liam

[Scraggles]

ChrisRS said:

Hi

I've got a Sony Vaio Laptop with a hardrive seperated into C and D (Is this known as a partition?).

The split is 2 lots of 40gb, the C is 75% full and the D is empty, would moving some stuff over to D improve the performance of the Laptop?

ChrisRS

Moving files to D: would help, like the swap file is going to need some space and the like, maybe have all documents, games on D: with at least 10 GB free left on C:

u cant move games, u uninstall and re-install, copy the game data to somewhere else first

partition is the right term

[ChrisRS]

Scraggles said:

ChrisRS said:

Hi

I've got a Sony Vaio Laptop with a hardrive seperated into C and D (Is this known as a partition?).

The split is 2 lots of 40gb, the C is 75% full and the D is empty, would moving some stuff over to D improve the performance of the Laptop?

ChrisRS

Moving files to D: would help, like the swap file is going to need some space and the like, maybe have all documents, games on D: with at least 10 GB free left on C:

u cant move games, u uninstall and re-install, copy the game data to somewhere else first

partition is the right term

Cheers, got about 10GB left on C but D is empty, think i'll move all music and other docs to D.

ChrisRS

[sneakyneil]

ChrisRS said:

Scraggles said:

ChrisRS said:

Hi

I've got a Sony Vaio Laptop with a hardrive seperated into C and D (Is this known as a partition?).

The split is 2 lots of 40gb, the C is 75% full and the D is empty, would moving some stuff over to D improve the performance of the Laptop?

ChrisRS

Moving files to D: would help, like the swap file is going to need some space and the like, maybe have all documents, games on D: with at least 10 GB free left on C:

u cant move games, u uninstall and re-install, copy the game data to somewhere else first

partition is the right term

Cheers, got about 10GB left on C but D is empty, think i'll move all music and other docs to D.

ChrisRS

If you right click on the 'my documents' folder on the desktop, properties, 'move', you can point it at the D drive and it'l do it for you.

[Popolou]

I suggest you move everything that is important and valuable to you onto the second partition. If you had to blow away the c: drive and reformat to reinstall, you can do it rest assured that all you documents/music/pictures are safe on D which will remain untouched.

Regards

Popolou

[R1 GTR]

Can you remove partitions?
My laptop has one of these and uses D: for backups. The backup software is only a trial version and i dont need it so i would like to remove the software once the trial is finished and just have a normal drive

[annodomini2]

R1 GTR said:

Can you remove partitions?
My laptop has one of these and uses D: for backups. The backup software is only a trial version and i dont need it so i would like to remove the software once the trial is finished and just have a normal drive

Yes, but you'll need the likes of partition magic or some other propriatry software to increase the size of the exisitng partition. And none of them are 100% guarranteed.

Best way is to backup, repartition and reinstall safest way and technically the easiest. But obviously takes the most time.

[Scraggles]

recall fdisk worked quite well, but u can get "trial" version of partition magic if u know where to look

got 4 drives in the region of 120-150 gb and not use nay partitions, figured not worth the hassle, maybe 500 GB data space, most is backed up, but not all

[SneakyNeil]

R1 GTR said:

Can you remove partitions?
My laptop has one of these and uses D: for backups. The backup software is only a trial version and i dont need it so i would like to remove the software once the trial is finished and just have a normal drive

Is this the trial of Ghost? (on a newish dell perchance?) If so, when you uninstall it it will give you the choice to remove the redundant partition and resize the c: back up again.

[R1 GTR]

SneakyNeil said:

R1 GTR said:

Can you remove partitions?
My laptop has one of these and uses D: for backups. The backup software is only a trial version and i dont need it so i would like to remove the software once the trial is finished and just have a normal drive

Is this the trial of Ghost? (on a newish dell perchance?) If so, when you uninstall it it will give you the choice to remove the redundant partition and resize the c: back up again.

It is. In that case i will uninstall it now.

When you say uninstall do you mean thruogh Add/remove programs in control panel?

Edited by R1 GTR on Saturday 24th February 11:12