Solved HDD full/External Drive

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I have a fairly old PC running Win7 with a small (465Gb) HDD which is always nearly full. I've been through the cleanup/delete programs procedures with little effect. I wondered whether there is a solution with an external drive which increases the size of the C: drive, so that instead of seeing two drives the system sees an enlarged C: drive?

Thanks for any advice.
 
Attach the drive to the PC and power on drive.
Run diskmgmt.msc
or
right click PC and choose Manage, Disk Management

Locate external drive. Right click the right-most section of the external drive.
Select Change Drive Letter or Path

What you see next is dependent on several factors and I cannot dupliccate any of them on the PC I am using (while I am also watching the Iron Bowl).
Your goal is to remove any existing drive letter and/or (instead of assigning a drive letter) assign a mount point.

A mount point is an existing folder on your C drive. The external drive will appear as a folder under that folder.

I could link you to a tutorial from another support site or a video, but I am not an active PCHelpForum member and am not familiar with policy regarding such links.

It is a fairly straightforward task. The biggest challenge is to make sure that you right click the external drive in the correct region, as different regions present different right click menus.

Of course, you could google "mount an external drive as a folder purdy" and select the first return.
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Thanks for your time in posting this. However, I feel it's outside my level of expertise.
 
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