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‎05-06-2025 08:34 PM

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Product: HP Pavilion - 14-bf050wm
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (32-bit)

Hello, I am now receiving messages from my laptop saying the my Disk C is 88% full. I checked the other disk which is D and it is almost empty. is there a way to make C bigger or should I move something from C to D. I want a not so complicated way to do as I am not a tech guy. thank you

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‎05-07-2025 05:54 AM - edited ‎05-07-2025 05:58 AM

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Typically what happens - The PC has a smaller SSD that comes with the Windows OS install.  That drive is labeled C.  The D drive is usually a SATA drive and is typically 1TB. The size of C cannot be made bigger without changing the C drive to a larger drive. 

With no intervention from the user, the installed software uses C for saving all of the files and next to no files are saved the the much larger D drive.  Windows and the installed software needs to be instructed to save files in a location on the D drive, thereby saving the C drive for future free space.

You can re-instruct the software to change the loction of the folder to save files and then move the existing files to that location OR you might want to check this out

https://foldermove.com/

Or start over with fresh install and tell Windows and the installed software where to save files.

https://www.ghacks.net/2019/10/14/how-to-change-the-default-save-location-in-windows-10/


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