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   Posted by: philp10
   Member

   I have a Acer Aspire 3690-2900 series laptop. Its supposed to have 60gb of hard drive space but is only letting me use 30gigs. Does anyone know what may be wrong or how I can unlock the other 30gigs? Any help is well appreciated.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Posted by: Starnamer
   Member

   I think Acer always configure their hard drives as half to C: and half to D:.

   Have you checked for an empty 30Gb D: drive?

   If not, have you deleted the partition which would mean that the space just wasn't being used any more?

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Posted by: philp10
   Member

   Thanks Starnamer for the response. You're correct it is split up into 2 drives (Acer/Data) and its not using any of the D drive but its still giving me low disk space messages... Am I supposed to manually move things over? I thought the data would naturally spread itself across the 2 drives. Any help is really appreciated, I've been deleting music and documents just to keep it going :(

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Posted by: Peter
   Moderator

   Just drag and drop files over.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Posted by: philp10
   Member

   Cool, I've transferred my user files to the D: drive. Once its done "copying" the files is it safe to delete them from the C: drive? Thanks again.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Posted by: Starnamer
   Member

   Once you've copied the files from C: to D:, you don't need to keep them on C: as well (I assume you keep 'critical' files on backup somewhere?).

   You can also Right-Click and Drag files/folders and it should then offer you to option to Move (as well as the default Copy). Move is just a Copy-and-delete-if-successful.

   The low space check is done for each drive letter independently since the system doesn't automatically move/copy files between them.

   Posted 2 years ago #

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