In Progress Software Installation Help Needed

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Peter yes I did use to have a Microsoft Account but that was way back when Windows 7 was in fashion and I still have disk and keys.

I think I’ve managed to get Windows 11 and Office 2024 on the laptop after loads of clicking around, more by pure luck than anything.
I figured if I’d got to take the laptop somewhere to get it sorted, I may as well have go myself.

Now I’ve got as far as partitioning, see the two attached screen shots, the first one is showing a C and D drive, which is on my desktop computer which has a 2TB hard drive.

The second screen shot is of the laptop, you will see there is no D drive and yet there are 5 boxes on both, where I’ve indicated with the arrows.

How do I go about creating a D drive on the laptop and how big should it be bearing in mind the total drive size is 1TB.
 

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For a start your C partition is way to small
With a single disk you don't need to have a D partition unless you are going to save all your data files on D.
You will either have to do this manually with all files. OR set the default destination to go to D.

You have unallocated space next to C which can be used to expand C
Go here and scroll down to Method 2 https://www.easeus.com/computer-instruction/format-unallocated-disk.html

To extend C drive
  • Right-click on the C drive and select "Extend Volume".
  • Follow the Extend Volume Wizard to allocate the unallocated space to the C drive.
 
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