[Kimmi8]

I have only used local drive c on all the pc's I've had. Can I use drive d (data) to save documents and folders also? Does it work the same as local c? Can I create folders? There are currently three folders in it... eData, MyWorks, and Temp. Do I need those?

It has 111gb of free space. My whole pc hdd capacity is 250gb. I only ask because I've only used local drive c and external hard drives to save multimedia files, etc.



Thanks :)

[smax013]

Kimmi8 said:

I have only used local drive c on all the pc's I've had. Can I use drive d (data) to save documents and folders also? Does it work the same as local c? Can I create folders? There are currently three folders in it... eData, MyWorks, and Temp. Do I need those?

It has 111gb of free space. My whole pc hdd capacity is 250gb. I only ask because I've only used local drive c and external hard drives to save multimedia files, etc.






Thanks :)

It would somewhat depend on how/why the D drive exists. On some computers, the D drive is the recovery partition (i.e. current Dell's are setup this way, I believe). In such as case, the D partition will be relatively small (just big enough to basically hold the recovery files/information), so using it is not that advisable. On some computers, the installed drive is so big that the computer manufacturer choose to partition the drive (some times because they had to due to the lack of the ability of the BIOS or OS to support such a large partition). In such cases, then the second partition is there for you to use for data or other storage.



What brand and model of computer do you have? Do you know how/why that D drive was created? You might want to run Belarc Advisor and report back what it tells you about your drives. It will list what type of drives you have attached. The other option is to go to Disk Management and see how different drives are partitioned.