Hardware hard drive help

mastic · Feb 23, 2014

My sons pc had a partitioned hard drive with the o/s on the smallest partion. Had to wipe and re-install but the old windows is still there until I remove it. My problem is the way its partitioned
C: 279GB total 184.9GB free
D: 18.8GB Total 13.3mb Free This is in RED
When I try to install anything like the updates etc its going to the D: drive. How do I make everything go to the C: drive permantly from now on

VectorZ · Feb 23, 2014

You need to edit the Registry, so usual "be careful" warnings apply.

Run Regedit then browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion then double click relevant keys to edit path and change D:\ to C:\

DBnut · Feb 23, 2014

In your search bar type regedit

Click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

Click on each sub folder \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

On the right hand side you will now see one called ProgramsFileDir

Double Click on that entry and then you can save the new path to the new location of the other drive (in the value data section)

cheers

DBnut · Feb 23, 2014

DBnut said:
In your search bar type regedit

Click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

Click on each sub folder \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

On the right hand side you will now see one called ProgramsFileDir

Double Click on that entry and then you can save the new path to the new location of the other drive (in the value data section)

cheers

Vector was too quick for me!

mastic · Feb 23, 2014

Cheers Guys, all done will let you know if I have any other problems as its just doing its windows updates at the moment so hopefully all sorted

mastic · Feb 23, 2014

Quick update it was already on the C drive in the registry so why is it still telling me D is low on space. Wont everything go to C now

DBnut · Feb 23, 2014

Is there an old back up on the D drive that swallowed up a large chunk of Memory? as you stated above there is only 13.3MB available.

Have a look in the back up and restore section to see what path the back ups are stored. If it's D: change it to your C: drive

mastic · Feb 23, 2014

Got it to save everything to the C now but the other problems are. D drive constantly saying full but tried to change the Registry to the command NoLowDiscSpaceCheck but still comes up. Also tried Disc clean-up to get rid of the old windows files but cant seem to find them on D just comes up with the recycle bin option.

DBnut · Feb 23, 2014

Highlight the D drive and then in the search (top right) type in size:gigantic - that will list all the large files stored on the drive. If it's not software you can then copy over to the C drive to save space

mastic · Feb 23, 2014

cheers DBnut

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