tinylittlepeewee

Hi,

I have a stupid question. I have a new laptop (my first), an Acer Aspire 3680. Storage on this thing was divided btw the C and D drive. I have read I could combine them, but that would come with more problems, so I'm not too worried about that.
Everything I store on my laptop is stored in the C drive by default, while the D drive remains empty.

I was told (by someone who always gives bad computer advice) that even though my storage drives are divided (c and d) that I should not store running applications in the D drive and for unknown reasons, even though on this computer I have both the C and D drive for storage, things will simply function better on the C drive.

So my question is. with the D drive sitting there empty, what can I do with it?
CD's, DVD's, USB's and all those things each have their own drive.

Since I am a college student I would like to use the D drive for documents and pdf's since I download many for my classes.

So my question is, 1.) what is safe for putting in that D drive? and 2.) is there any reason I can't put pdf's and doc's there in D?

yours truly -
tinylittlepeewee