How can I move free memory on my D drive to my C drive?

Question

My computer is a 6-year old Sony VAIO desktop.

Answer 1

If you have Windows XP... You would have to go into Control Panel -> System -> "Advanced" tab -> "Performance" button -> "Advanced" tab -> "Virtual memory" button. In the new window, in the "Virtual Memory" area, press the "Change" button.



At the bottom of the new window there is a "Recommended paging file size." Decide how big you want the swap file on D Drive to be, and be prepared to add a swap file to C Drive which, added to the one on D Drive, totals the "Recommended paging file size."



At the top of the window there is a scroll box. Select D Drive, then down below click on the "Custom size" circle checkbox. Put in the size of the swap file you want on D Drive in the "Initial Size" and "Maximum Size" entry boxes, the same number in each box.



Repeat the same steps with C Drive.



Click "OK" on each of the windows to exit, and agree when Windows asks you to reboot the computer.



After rebooting your system should have a "virtual memory" swap file on both D Drive and on C Drive, with part of the recommended paging file size on one drive and the rest on the other.



Recommending only if you have to... y not just use D more than c??

Answer 2

The easiest thing to do would be to just move files from C to D.



If they are two partitions on the same harddrive, you can resize them. The safest way to do this, and most reliable, is to put it in an enclosure and use another computer, or use a linux liveCD and run qtparted or gparted and resize the partitions there.



If you want to try with windows, go to the control panel, then administrative tasks. From there open computer management.

On the left there is something bout disk management. Find the disk you are concerned with, right click the D drive, resize. Make it smaller. Then resize C larger.



You're getting a lot of crummy answers. It's built into 2000, XP, and Vista. Not just Vista. You don't have to move all the files off, you just run the risk of losing information when you resize the

partition table. It's a small risk though.





What is with these answers, seriously? Memory can also refer to free space... and you should ALWAYS let windows handle the size of the page files on your drives... What in the world..?

Answer 3

I don't think you understand correctly what memory is. Memory is a chipset that resides on the motherboard and does not exist on a hard disk.



There is such a thing as VIRTUAL memory on a hard disk, but this is only "created" when the computer needs extra memory it cannot get from RAM memory (the chipsets I mentioned).



It is not a good thing to rely on virtual memory because, it slows the computer down, and fragments the hard disk faster.

You can increase the Page File. A page file is a hidden file on the hard disk that windows uses to hold parts of programs and data files that do not fit into memory. The paging file and physical RAM comprise Virtual Memory. Windows moves data from the paging file to memory as needed and moves memory to paging file to make room for new data. A paging file is also called a Swap File.



To change the size of the vitual memory paging file:



Open Computer Management Console (Local)



In the console tree, right-click Computer Management (Local) and then select Properties



On the Avanced tab, click Performance Options and under Virtual memory, click Change.



In the Drive list, click the drive that contains the paging file you want to change



Under Paging file size for selected drive, type a new paging file size in megabytes in the Initial Size (M) or Maxium Size (M) box and the click Set.



To open Computer Management Console, click Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools Icon and finally Computer Management Icon. You must be the Administrator or have Administrator Priveleges in order to change the Page File.



For best performance, set the intial size to not less than the recommended size under total paging file size for all drives. The recommended size is equivalent to 1.5 times the amount of physical RAM on your system.



You should leave your page file set to default unless you are uing programs that require a lot of memory.



Clearing the Page File on shut down will slow the computer down.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

You can not. Your only option is to remove all files from D: and then shrink or delete its' partition. You can then expand the C: drive over the unused area. In Vista this is built in, otherwise you will need a partition manager.

Answer 6

There is no memory in a hard drive. Just drag and drop the files.

Answer 7

You cant move any free memory from one drive to other

You can just drag & drop ur files



Or you can make new partition

Answer 8

you can't do that. your d drive holds all the information so that you can recover. if you need more memory, buy the memory cards.

Answer 9

buy new drive