Using Data (E) Drive

[scottscott125]

Hello everyone,

Apologies in advance if this is a really basic question but I am total duffer with these things.

I have a Toshiba Portege laptop that has 160gb of memory. When I open 'My Computer' it shows 2 HArd Disk Drives - Vista(C) and Data (E). The Vista drive is now full but the Data drive is empty.

I keep getting messages saying my memory is full (for example from 4ondemand etc), yet I have this empty 73GB.

My question is how do I start using it to store things?!

Hope somebody may be able to shed some light on this...

Regards...

Lisa S

 

[PohTayToez]

What does it say when you go Right Click>Properties.

It should show how big the drive is, and how much is left. If you have memory in a drive other than C, you will need to drag files from C to the other drive to use it and to free up space on C.

Although I have a suspicion that the E drives is your memory card drive.

 

[scottscott125]

It says FREE: 73.2 GB. TYPE: Local Disk.

Is it just a case of dragging stuff from my C drive across to this drive then??

Thx...Lisa

 

[Jamin43]

That would free up alot of space. Look at My Pics - My videos - and my documents - and you should find most of your files. You can't move those folders - but you can drag the content within them to a new folder in your E drive.

 

[TFT]

If all your data is in "My Documents" you should be able to right click and under location, change it to your E: drive. Vista should move everything automatically.