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    Data Drives?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by iconic, Apr 2, 2011.

  1. iconic

    iconic Notebook Enthusiast

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    Howdy, Folks! Sorry if this is the wrong forum for this, but, I'm not savvy enough to figure this out...

    I got an Asus a month or two back and love it... for the most part. I realized pretty recently that my 650 GB is hardly that -- it's broken up into 4 drives (OS (C: ), SData1 (D: ), Data (E: ) and SData2(F: ) where I'm finding that I can only install things on C: (which is 74.5 GB) and the others won't accept installation of well, anything. When I've tried, I'm getting popups that say it'll make the drive unstable or it simply can't happen. The problem with this is the programs I have have already eaten up the greater part of the 74.5 GB, and the other nearly 600 GB of space on my computer is unuseable... Help?

    I haven't updated anything on the computer aside from the wireless adapter inside of it.
     
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    TomJG90 Notebook Evangelist

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    You need to repartition your drives. What i would do is move all your data stuff to some empty sector , delete the partition and extend your C:/ partition to have more space. You can do this is Disk Management. To Access this , right click on your compter icon on your desktop or in your start menu and click on manage and than disks. Be Careful as when you delete partition you loose all your data on it. Read up a bit before doing it.
     
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