bengalfan34 Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 I went to install a game for my daughter yesterday and it said there wasn't enough room on my hard drive. I went to check it and it is showing that i have 2 hard drives. One is drive c and the other is drive d. It is showing a 29.2 gig on drive c and a 203 gig on drive d. The question i have is if i have that much room on the other hard drive, can i install games and stuff on it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 [quote name='bengalfan34' post='743069' date='Jan 29 2009, 11:39 AM']I went to install a game for my daughter yesterday and it said there wasn't enough room on my hard drive. I went to check it and it is showing that i have 2 hard drives. One is drive c and the other is drive d. It is showing a 29.2 gig on drive c and a 203 gig on drive d. The question i have is if i have that much room on the other hard drive, can i install games and stuff on it?[/quote] yes. On a side note, what game needs more than 29.2 gb of free space? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bengalfan34 Posted January 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 There is only .98 gb of free space on that drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 [quote name='bengalfan34' post='743090' date='Jan 29 2009, 01:10 PM']There is only .98 gb of free space on that drive.[/quote] That little room on your OS partition will cause problems eventually. I would recommend that you move some files from C to D, and maybe even move your swap file from C to D to free up space. I can walk you through the swap move if you need... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vol_Bengal Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 [quote name='Elflocko' post='743106' date='Jan 29 2009, 02:59 PM']That little room on your OS partition will cause problems eventually. I would recommend that you move some files from C to D, and maybe even move your swap file from C to D to free up space. I can walk you through the swap move if you need...[/quote] what he said. you'll have issues, right when you really don't want to have them... And, when you're installing most anything - don't take the default path!!! Force it over to the D: partition / drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mongo Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 I thought D was usually the optical drive... Odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 [quote name='mongo' post='743127' date='Jan 29 2009, 03:13 PM']I thought D was usually the optical drive... Odd.[/quote] With the exception of A, you can name them anything you want... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 If anyone else uses steam... Install it to a seperate paritition. if you ever have to reload windows you can run steam from the directory no problem. That is what i'm doing in windows 7. crysis had to install a couple things, but that was it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 [quote name='mongo' post='743127' date='Jan 29 2009, 03:13 PM']I thought D was usually the optical drive... Odd.[/quote] Windows usually gives it the first available drive letter(other than a,. So if you have a formatted c & D drive when you install windows, it will probably be E. You can easily change drive letters around also.\ I know when i use to setup servers, i would assign the cd drive the letter R because the likelhood of that drive letter ever being needed was pretty low. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 [quote name='Ben' post='743131' date='Jan 29 2009, 03:23 PM']Windows usually gives it the first available drive letter(other than a,. So if you have a formatted c & D drive when you install windows, it will probably be E. You can easily change drive letters around also.\ I know when i use to setup servers, i would assign the cd drive the letter R because the likelhood of that drive letter ever being needed was pretty low.[/quote] I like assigning drive letter Z. Only because it seems so lonely... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 [quote name='Elflocko' post='743133' date='Jan 29 2009, 03:25 PM']I like assigning drive letter Z. Only because it seems so lonely...[/quote] well... there was some other stuff that could potentionally use letter z here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 [quote name='Ben' post='743134' date='Jan 29 2009, 03:26 PM']well... there was some other stuff that could potentionally use letter z here...[/quote] Q is another that never gets any love... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bengalfan34 Posted January 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 [quote name='Elflocko' date='Jan 29 2009, 01:59 PM' post='743106'] That little room on your OS partition will cause problems eventually. I would recommend that you move some files from C to D, and maybe even move your swap file from C to D to free up space. I can walk you through the swap move if you need... I am getting ready to go to work for a few hours right now, but if you are on later tonight i will see if you can help me out with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mongo Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 [quote name='Elflocko' post='743128' date='Jan 29 2009, 04:17 PM']With the exception of A, you can name them anything you want...[/quote] I understand that, I just think it's odd. I've never seen any computer that wasn't home made that bothered to have the optical drive labeled anything but D... Perhaps I made the wrong assumption that this was a store bought computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 [quote name='bengalfan34' post='743140' date='Jan 29 2009, 03:42 PM']I am getting ready to go to work for a few hours right now, but if you are on later tonight i will see if you can help me out with it.[/quote] What is the total size of your C drive? Do you have a bunch of pictures, music, porn, etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steggyD Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 Sounds like you have one actual hard drive, partitioned? Weird setup though. My second hard drive is D, mongo, but, yeah, I built it myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 [quote name='steggyD' post='743194' date='Jan 29 2009, 08:31 PM']Sounds like you have one actual hard drive, partitioned? Weird setup though. My second hard drive is D, mongo, but, yeah, I built it myself.[/quote] Mine is /dev/hda... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 [quote name='Elflocko' post='743184' date='Jan 29 2009, 07:13 PM']What is the total size of your C drive? Do you have a bunch of pictures, music, porn, etc?[/quote] Maybe re-direct my documents to the other drive? [quote name='Elflocko' post='743195' date='Jan 29 2009, 08:33 PM']Mine is /dev/hda... [/quote] i knew you loved mounting strange things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Montana Bengal| Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 [quote name='Elflocko' post='743195' date='Jan 29 2009, 07:33 PM']Mine is /dev/hda... [/quote] Elf Locko, So your secondary drive is /dev/hda? Why not /dev/hbd? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 [quote name='Ben' post='743270' date='Jan 30 2009, 09:21 AM']i knew you loved mounting strange things[/quote] How do you know my wife? [quote name='Montana Bengal' post='743349' date='Jan 30 2009, 04:06 PM']Elf Locko, So your secondary drive is /dev/hda? Why not /dev/hbd? [/quote] No, that's the CD drive. I misread the post... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatScratchFever Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 [quote name='bengalfan34' post='743069' date='Jan 29 2009, 11:39 AM']I went to install a game for my daughter yesterday and it said there wasn't enough room on my hard drive. I went to check it and it is showing that i have 2 hard drives. One is drive c and the other is drive d. It is showing a 29.2 gig on drive c and a 203 gig on drive d. The question i have is if i have that much room on the other hard drive, can i install games and stuff on it?[/quote] To help out in case any of this sounds confusing: You physically have only one hard drive, but when it was originally formatted, it was logically divided into two parts. That means that the operating system sees it as two drives. Older versions of Windows could only access hard drives up to a particular size, and when hard drives larger than it could handle emerged, they had to be partitioned in order to access the entire available space. Unless you are still using Windows 95 or earlier, there is no real reason that a hard drive needs to be partitioned. As mentioned before, it may actually cause you problems down the road. Some people do it for organizational purposes, but there is no technical need for it. If you ever get around to, or need to, reformat your hard drive, consider removing the partition and using it as one drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bengalfan34 Posted January 31, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 I would like to use it as one hard drive. But if there is a different way, i will just go with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted January 31, 2009 Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 [quote name='bengalfan34' post='743412' date='Jan 30 2009, 11:25 PM']I would like to use it as one hard drive. But if there is a different way, i will just go with that.[/quote] Find all of your pictures, videos, and non-system\program files and move them to the bigger partition. Let me know how much room that frees up. If need be we'll move your swap file. It's not a hard process, but does require a reboot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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