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    Hard Drive Issues

    I'm currently trying to 'repair' an Asus laptop. In essence, there is nothing really wrong with it but a family member can't get to grips with it. It has a partitioned hard drive. It it is partitioned as follows:

    1. Recovery
    2. OS
    3. Storage

    Ignoring the recovery partition, the OS partition is roughly 70GB and the storage partition is 160GB. The issue is that the OS is filling up the OS partition with all the user generated files and it isn't saving them to the storage partition which I presumed it would. I thought about trying to merge the partitions to avoid my family member getting confused but the laptop doesn't like this option as it corrupts the OS partition.

    Is there something else I can do to resolve this problem?

    Adam.

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    Re: Hard Drive Issues

    Backup the data to an external drive.
    Delete the data partition.
    Expand the OS partition (if Windows 7 then you can expand using Disk Management Console)
    Restore data from backup
    Rgds,

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    Re: Hard Drive Issues

    There should be no need to merge the partitions, you can make Windows move the Documents/Music/Vdeos/etc... folders to the D: drive and maintain that link.

    Procedure differs, depending of the version of Windows you are running.

    Windows XP you have to create the new Documents/Music/Video folders on the D: drive manually and use "Tweak UI for Windows XP" to tell Windows to use them instead. Once done you need to move the contents of the older folders across manually.

    In Windows 7 you can literally highlight the Douments, Videos, Music etc... folders inside your user's home folder and CUT & PASTE them to the D: drive. Windows will automatically maintain the link to them.

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