2 drives one almost full one empty

[walkingheart645]

i have an asus g73sw, 8g ram, 500gb hd.. yesterday i was going through my computer cleaning out old files etc., and i noticed that my c drive was almost full, and underneath the c drive was a d drive marked data, with Nothing on it.. i'm at a loss here of what it is i'm suppose to do.. should i partition that d drive into the c drive??.. i've also included an attachment so you can see what i'm seeing.. oh, and for those that celebrate it, Merry Christmas, and for those that don't, Happy Holidays.. Thanks..WH

[Raymond]

In order not to take any risk, the safest way is to move your data from C drive to D drive.
TreeSize Free will be able to help you easily determine where all the space went.
http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/download.shtml

[walkingheart645]

thanks so much Raymond.. i will try it soon as i'm off here.. i wonder if that's a backup drive?? we shall soon see.. thanks again..WH

[hal9000]

You've definitely got to trace where all the space has gone. If you have a lot of music / video then it's pretty obvious and won't be a major issue moving stuff over to D: If you have loads of programs installed, you might have to reinstall some of them onto D:

I see this a lot on people's machines. There's 2 partitions created by the manufacturer, but no data is ever set up to automatically be stored there. It's up to the user to sort it themselves and most users don't even know they have another partition let alone know what to do with it!!

[walkingheart645]

i tried my hardest to get back to ya yesterday but family and holidays do take precedence.. i tried the tree size and found that most of my space is being used up by, users.. and then it has under users my name with a whole different number than the user one.. i'm at a loss here.. could i be running my computer as user And administrator, which is me?? I have some games on there too, and steam which takes up some but nowhere near what users and me are taking up.. please help if you can..Thanks

I put an attachment up of what treesize shows so you can see what i'm talking about..

[Raymond]

You can click on the arrow button that points to DTallman so that it shows further where the space went.
It is probably My Documents, or Desktop.

[walkingheart645]

thanks Raymond.. hope all had a good Christmas.. i see where everythings going now.. for some odd reason when i save or download something, my computer is treating it like there's two users.. one as C:\user\, and then the other one is being saved as, C:\users\DTallman\ now that i've (you) got That figured out, can you, or anybody, guide me in the direction of what to do next?? just delete the C:\users\ ??

[Raymond]

C:\Users and C:\Users\DTallman actually are the same location. The DTallman folder is simply under Users folder which is called a subdirectory.

You cannot move the whole DTallman folder or even the Users folder to your D:\ drive because they are created by Windows. What you need to do is continue clicking the right arrow from DTallman folder until you see some files which are taking all the space. Files that are safe to move to D:\ drive would be like images/photos, music files, downloaded files, documents.

We can help you further if you're able to click the arrow button so that it expands deeper.

[walkingheart645]

Raymond.. i was clicking the arrows and going to the sub directories but you have to double click on the item to get to it's sub directory to see what exactly is using up the space.. i'm going to uninstall all the game demo's, i've played them out pretty much.. i wanted to get back into gaming since i had a computer that could handle them (i thought).. 95% of my pictures i store on my external hd.. i could move the ones on here to there easily.. the other one shows my documents.. not sure about those, and there's those files that have the blue arrows pointing up.. i click on them, and it reads that i don't have permission to see the file.. even under DTallman it won't let me into my pictures, videos, or my music.. it reads: C:\users\Documents\My Pictures is not accessible.. what would cause that?? thanks for your help Raymond.. anybody else who can help, please jump in..

[Anakey]

The links that you can't open were installed to enable users who had xp and upgraded their systems to be able to access the data as it has a different file path compared to vista and 7 just ignore them as they won't contain anything. as for the space, move all the dmo files, pictures and music onto the d partition.