In Progress Moving drive 'C' contents

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mAGIC pETE

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I have a PC used mainly for video editing. The ‘C’ Drive is only 128 GB, although my work is saved on several 2TB drives. My ‘C’ drive is virtually full but I do delete things to the best of my limited knowledge. However, I’m very wary of deleting things I don’t understand.

I do have a spare 2TB disc and I would like to know if ALL of drive ‘C’ could be transferred to the much bigger disc. Thanks. Pete
 
mAGIC pETE said:
The ‘C’ Drive is only 128 GB,
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Windows should always be installed on either its own drive or on a separate partition on a larger drive, a 256GB SSD or separate partition on a larger capacity drive should be the minimum capacity allowed for.

You need to replace the drive and for as to why is explained below;

It reduces the amount of free space that is required to be kept available + it makes creating a regular back a whole lot easier.

It helps avoid corruption and malware attack.

Windows will boot up quicker on its own partition as it does not need to install drivers for any third party programs.

Equally as important is being prepared for the need to upgrade to another OS, Windows 10 is nearing its end of life and extended support will cease on October 14th, 2025, when the time comes you will only have to worry about upgrading or clean installing Windows to the C: partition as opposed to needing to reinstall all of your programs and data if they were kept on a separate partition on the same drive.

Windows 11 will just keep on growing and growing and the space on such a small capacity SSD will be gone in no time.
 
Thanks very much for your most comprehensive reply. Sadlu, at the age of 91, most of your advice is way over my head.
It doesn't really answer my question about transferring all of drive 'C' to an available 2TB drive to hand. I would appreciate some further helpful advice if possible.. Thanks again. Pete:LOL:
 
You can transfer your personal data from the drive but that does not get away from the fact that the boot drive is too small so the easiest thing to do would be to purchase and fit a new 250GB or above SSD and clean install Windows and the system drivers to it, the present drive that you mention can just be kept as your back up of Windows and the personal data moved to one of your 2TB drives.

You are welcome btw :)
 
phillpower2 said:
You can transfer your personal data from the drive but that does not get away from the fact that the boot drive is too small so the easiest thing to do would be to purchase and fit a new 250GB or above SSD and clean install Windows and the system drivers to it, the present drive that you mention can just be kept as your back up of Windows and the personal data moved to one of your 2TB drives.

You are welcome btw :)
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Thanks again. This is way beyond my limited abilities, so it looks as if I will have to get (and pay for) some professional help.
But you have answered my question of course. Thanks. Pete
 
You can meanwhile transfer all the personal data to a couple of other places and then delete the original personal data off the C: drive, just be sure though that in future you save all personal data to those other drives rather than filling up the C: drive again, you will have to upgrade the drive further down the way but the suggested will get you by for now.

You are welcome :)
 
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