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Hello dakka and because I already know that the dakka community is trustable and helpful I would like to ask the following question: How to transfer memory from a harddrive to another? The answer is probably simple so please answer. The case is that my file which has windows on it is full even though the other harddrive of the computer is empty.

Easiest way is a Flash or Thumbdrive. Or, and it's getting to be just as cheap, get an external HDD, and transfer them that way.

External hard drives are cheaper per gigabyte than flashdrives.

Of course, if you do that, there's no reason why you can't just leave the data on the external hard drive and access it from there.

Just get a good external hard drive and start storing all of your data on there for redundancy purposes. You always want to back up important things.

Aaand reading comprehension fail. He has 2 hard drives in one computer, people.

Tho I admit that it's mind-boggling that one would have to ask this.

OP: Open up Explorer, click on any file you want to transfer and hit Ctrl-X. Then open your other drive and hit Ctrl-V. Do this only to self-contained files like movies. Stay away from anything in the Program Files or Windows folder, and copying games will break them. If you have Steam games taking up loads of space, start another Steam library on the other drive, uninstall some games and download them again to the other drive.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Aaand reading comprehension fail. He has 2 hard drives in one computer, people.

Tho I admit that it's mind-boggling that one would have to ask this.

OP: Open up Explorer, click on any file you want to transfer and hit Ctrl-X. Then open your other drive and hit Ctrl-V. Do this only to self-contained files like movies. Stay away from anything in the Program Files or Windows folder, and copying games will break them. If you have Steam games taking up loads of space, start another Steam library on the other drive, uninstall some games and download them again to the other drive.

Thanks for a good answer. But that I thought about myself and it seems quite slow and does not solve the problem perpetualy. I am not sure but I think thare is physically only one hard-drive but it is virtualy divided to two ones. I would like to know is there a way to ge more space to the filled one from the empty one? Again thanks for your answers.

Sienisoturi wrote:
Thanks for a good answer. But that I thought about myself and it seems quite slow and does not solve the problem perpetualy.

Nothing ever will.

I am not sure but I think thare is physically only one hard-drive but it is virtualy divided to two ones. I would like to know is there a way to ge more space to the filled one from the empty one? Again thanks for your answers.

So you want to try to change how much memory is allocated to each of the two partitions? No. Do not try. Screwing up your partitions is bad, and nothing you've said makes me think your computer is in such bad shape that it's worth doing anyway.

 AlexHolker wrote:

Sienisoturi wrote:
Thanks for a good answer. But that I thought about myself and it seems quite slow and does not solve the problem perpetualy.

Nothing ever will.

I am not sure but I think thare is physically only one hard-drive but it is virtualy divided to two ones. I would like to know is there a way to ge more space to the filled one from the empty one? Again thanks for your answers.

So you want to try to change how much memory is allocated to each of the two partitions? No. Do not try. Screwing up your partitions is bad, and nothing you've said makes me think your computer is in such bad shape that it's worth doing anyway.

Thanks for your answer. Now that we are on the topic is I also have the problem that is the cause for the hardrive being filled which is that the full file is set as the default, so that if I create a word document it is saved there. Is there a way to make the empty hardrive the default one?

I have two drives in my computer.

Windows boots from C drive. ALL of its files are on there.

All my other files, movies, pictures, etc are on a separate drive.
This gets upgraded when and where necessary. It's all non-critical to operations stuff.

You have two hard drives in the same computer? Well, that should be easy, just drag and drop. You can also use some BIOS utilities, all of which escape me at the moment, if you're unable to do so through windows itself.

Depends on how the two drives are configured. Are they in one large partition?

You can mount 1 drive as part of another....
In Computer Manager, (Rightclick Computer and select Manage) you can assign a drive letter to a partition or drive.
You can also make one drive show up as a folder on one you already have, like C:\Other_Drive.

One quick way to free up a lot of space, and probably speed up your PC, is to move the pagefile off the main drive.
In System (look in Control Panel), in the advanced section, is the Performance section, The Advanced section the (note the advanced bits) you can tell the PC how much of each drive can be allocated to the Virtual Memory. This can be pretty huge.
Set a custom file on the 2nd drive, and make it initially as big as the recommended size, and set the maximum to be the same. Then change the C: drive file to be just 200MB, which is the minimum it lets you have.