C vs. D drive

[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

 

[RedTab]

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

why not? C and D drive are both the same..only that they have different name

 

[Deepblue]

This depends on the system, Some systems such a HP store a image of the C:\ on the D:\ to be used for system restores (Reformat/Reinstall).
This images reformats the c:\ and reinstalls Windows back to the factory install.
there is not any other room on this drive for anything other then that image
and is not a good idea to save to this drive.
If your system is like this and you dont care to have the restore image
then yes you can combine the 2 drives but be warned that this is the only copy of windows that comes with systems like this.

some systems also give you the chance to create a DVD of this image so you can delete the d:\ drive image, you should check any documents that came with the laptop first

 

[Geoff]

Most likely it's because HP partitioned the drive and either made D drive just for the recovery files, or made it large enough for data. You can store programs or files on there, but it is a bit more of a pain to install apps on the D drive because you have to manually tell the program where to install to.

 

[systek]

a screenshot would probably help out. I've never seen a restorable image be put in a separate partition that was viewable by the end user while in windows. but weirder things have been done...so i cant say for sure. if it is showing available space, go for it, you can store any data on there...

 

[99F]

no systek my laptop has that aswell

 

[apj101]

Most likely it's because HP partitioned the drive and either made D drive just for the recovery files, or made it large enough for data. You can store programs or files on there, but it is a bit more of a pain to install apps on the D drive because you have to manually tell the program where to install to.

Its not too much trouble to manually tell it to install to the d drive, and if the c drive is pretty full and runs the OS then there could be a smally benefit for running apps from D:
although i guess we need to know how big each of the drives are and if d: is truely empty.

a screenshot would probably help out. I've never seen a restorable image be put in a separate partition that was viewable by the end user while in windows. but weirder things have been done...so i cant say for sure. if it is showing available space, go for it, you can store any data on there...

its not common, but it happens

 

[systek]

Its not too much trouble to manually tell it to install to the d drive, and if the c drive is pretty full and runs the OS then there could be a smally benefit for running apps from D:

yeh, this doesnt pose a problem with data or programs...but with large capacity drives available, who needs to install apps on a second hdd??

 

[luckyedboy66]

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

"tiny little pee wee"... im sorry you are not well endowed . you are absolutely right about the guy who gives bad advice... there is no problem at all...