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Windows 7 - Dual Hard Drives |
07-04-2011
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Windows 7 Professional 64-bit |
Dual Hard Drives
I have an HP laptop with dual 500GB hard drives. The C:/ disk is almost full. Will it automatically write to the other disk if there's no room left on C:? Or do I have to plug in some command during bootup to make this happen? Thanks.
| My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number HP Pavillion dv7t-3000 Notebook
OS Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
CPU Intel Core i7 Q720 @ 1.60 GHz
Memory 8 GB DDR3
Graphics Card Nvidia Geforce
Monitor(s) Displays HP 2159m HD
Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080
Keyboard Logitech Illuminated Keyboard
Mouse Logitech
Hard Drives 1 TB 7200 RPM (2 x 500GB)
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07-04-2011
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#3 | |
Win 7 Home Premium (64-bit), Win 7 Pro (32-bit) |
While waiting for the screenshot requested by Theog, I'm going to hazard a guess that you actually don't have 2 hard drives but instead have a single hard drive divided up into partitions that appear as different drive letters. To answer your question, no, the system will not automatically start writing to the other drive when the C: drive is full.
One we see the screenshot of your Disk Management, we can advise you as to the best way to deal with the lack of space on the C: drive. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Dell XPS 8100 Desktop, Dell Inspiron 1520 Laptop
OS Win 7 Home Premium (64-bit), Win 7 Pro (32-bit)
CPU 2.8Ghz Core i7 860, 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo
Motherboard Dell, Dell
Memory 8G, 3G
Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 5770, Mobile Intel 965
Sound Card ATI High Definition Audio (Built-in to mobo)
Monitor(s) Displays Dell 2409W 24"
Screen Resolution 1920x1080
Keyboard IBM Model M - used continuously since 1986
Mouse Microsoft
Hard Drives 1T OS; 1.5T Data on Desktop, 320G for laptop
Internet Speed 1.5M down 1.2M up :-(
Other Info Also have an Acer Aspire netbook, a home-built AMD Dual core (Minecraft server) and home-built Pent 4 all running Win 7. Also have various machines running XP, Win Server 2K, Win Server 2003, Linux and DOS. I think I have a problem...
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07-05-2011
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#4 | |
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit |
Here you go...  | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number HP Pavillion dv7t-3000 Notebook
OS Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
CPU Intel Core i7 Q720 @ 1.60 GHz
Memory 8 GB DDR3
Graphics Card Nvidia Geforce
Monitor(s) Displays HP 2159m HD
Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080
Keyboard Logitech Illuminated Keyboard
Mouse Logitech
Hard Drives 1 TB 7200 RPM (2 x 500GB)
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07-05-2011
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#5 | |
Win 7 Home Premium (64-bit), Win 7 Pro (32-bit) |
Hush my mouth! You actually do have 2 physical hard drives in your laptop! Not unheard of but not very common either.
My advice in this case would be to move all of your data that is currently stored on the C: drive to the D: drive (which is appropriately labeled "Data". Keep the C: drive for your OS and apps and save all of your data to the D: drive. That will also make it easier to do regular backups of your data.
Music, picture, Doc and spreadsheets are typical data files. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Dell XPS 8100 Desktop, Dell Inspiron 1520 Laptop
OS Win 7 Home Premium (64-bit), Win 7 Pro (32-bit)
CPU 2.8Ghz Core i7 860, 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo
Motherboard Dell, Dell
Memory 8G, 3G
Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 5770, Mobile Intel 965
Sound Card ATI High Definition Audio (Built-in to mobo)
Monitor(s) Displays Dell 2409W 24"
Screen Resolution 1920x1080
Keyboard IBM Model M - used continuously since 1986
Mouse Microsoft
Hard Drives 1T OS; 1.5T Data on Desktop, 320G for laptop
Internet Speed 1.5M down 1.2M up :-(
Other Info Also have an Acer Aspire netbook, a home-built AMD Dual core (Minecraft server) and home-built Pent 4 all running Win 7. Also have various machines running XP, Win Server 2K, Win Server 2003, Linux and DOS. I think I have a problem...
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07-05-2011
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#6 | |
Windows 7 X64 Professional/Windows 8 |
I agree with Strollin, Move all user files to the second hard drive, thus freein up space on the C drive. When C is full it will not start using the second Hard Drive Move user files | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Home Brew - Always under construction
OS Windows 7 X64 Professional/Windows 8
CPU intel i7-2600K
Motherboard Asus P8Z68 V-Pro/GEN 3
Memory 8GB G.Skill Sniper DDR3-2133 (2X4GB)
Graphics Card EVGA 670 2GB
Sound Card Asus Xonar
Monitor(s) Displays Asus 24" LCD VW246H
Screen Resolution 1920X1080
Keyboard Logitech G510
Mouse Logitech G500/Logitech Wireless
PSU CORSAIR HX850W
Case Cooler Master HAF X
Cooling Corsair H100 w/ 4 noctua fans in push/pull.
Hard Drives Crucial M4 128GB,Crucial M4 64GB,Samsung HD103SJ 1TB, 1TB WD FAEX,Samsung 1.5TB, EXTERNAL HD- 2X Rosewill case esata w/ 1TB Samsung spinpoints & Black X esata 1TB Spinpoint, Rosewill USB 3.0 dock 1TB Spinpoint, Seagate GOFlex Pro 500GB & 750GB USB
Internet Speed Foot Messenger speed
Other Info 2nd Computer- Samsung RF711-SO1 17" Laptop i5-2310M, 8GB DDR3-1333, Crucial M4 and OCZ vertex2, Nvidia GT540M.Win 7 HP X64.
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