Changing Primary Hardrive

[Flodro18]

Hello there! I recently installed windows seven and chose to install it on my D drive where Vista was also installed. My question is how do i make my C drive my primary storage as i have no more space in the D and tons in the C

 

[RootAdmin]

easiest thing to do would be to reinstall windows 7 onto w/e drive you want it on.

if there are lots of things you've changed since you installed windows, you could use the windows backup tool's to make a backup of the current windows 7 installation, which you could re-apply after windows 7 is fresh installed on your c drive.

 

[Flodro18]

is there any other way to switch it without having to do a reinstall??

 

[sup3rsprt]

Backup and restore. Or perhaps if you boot into WinPE you could copy all of the files to the new drive. But if not done correctly you will have troubles booting Windows.

 

[mickey megabyte]

or you could just move your user folders...

 

[sup3rsprt]

easy, but it won't change the fact the "Program Files" will still be on the D: drive. If D: is out of space he is going to have a difficult time installing new programs.

 

[TGSoldier]

Make a program files folder on the C: drive and when installing a program, just point it to there heh.

The best thing would be to back up and reinstall..

 

[sup3rsprt]

Make a program files folder on the C: drive and when installing a program, just point it to there heh.

If only the world was so perfect where installers never wanted to extract or store anything on the D: drive (which they inevitably will, regardless if you try to install it to C or not).

 

[mickey megabyte]

easy, but it won't change the fact the "Program Files" will still be on the D: drive. If D: is out of space he is going to have a difficult time installing new programs.

the op specified storage.

Hello there! I recently installed windows seven and chose to install it on my D drive where Vista was also installed. My question is how do i make my C drive my primary storage as i have no more space in the D and tons in the C

i presume he has all his music/docs on d:, so moving them to c: will free up space on d:

 

[sup3rsprt]

I see your point.

 

[kensiko]

What about creating a mlink with the Program Files?

Also, back in XP, I was able to change the default installation directory of programs by changing the path in Regedit.

 

[mickey megabyte]

...or install big programs (eg games) onto empty hard-drive.

lots of options!