Windows 10: Freeing up space in Windows (C:)

I am getting errors saying that I do not have any storage left, so I looked and my windows (C) drive is full ( 665MB free of 118 GB) but my DATA (D) drive still has a lot of storage space (876 GB free of 913 GB). I have changed the defaults to now save new things to (D) but I still need to move some things out of (C). I am worried that if I just drag and drop certain things from (C) to (D) I might lose something. I just want to make sure that it is safe before I mess something up. Any help/advice is appreciated.

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Freeing up space in C drive (to D?)

I've tried that but right clicking on the folder or file does not give me the option of moving them. Just copying them.

 

Freeing up space in C drive (to D?)

In Windows File Explorer, if you click on 'This PC' in the left pane, then on the right hand pane, if you right click your library folders, this option should appear What version of Windows 10 are you running





If these options do not appear, you might need to edit your registry

Navigate to these keys in your registry and see they are set correctly (Note Dave is my user name, replace it with yours . . .

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders





HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

 

Welcome to TenForums @emorymcdougald

One thing you could easily move from C: to D: is your pagefile, it's normally at least as large as your installed memory. Go to Control Panel\System and Security\System and click Advanced system settings. Create a system managed page file on D: and set 'none' on C: (you may need a reboot). More in this Tutorial.
Virtual Memory Pagefile - Manage in Windows 10

Then you can have a look at what's using up the space on C: - if you haven't done so already, run Disk Clean-up and click its 'Clean up system files' button. Amongst other things, you'll probably find a lot of space can be released by cleaning 'Windows updates'.
Disk Cleanup - Open and Use in Windows 10

Those two actions should regain several GB on C: - if that's not enough for you at least it will give you breathing space to move other things at your leisure.

 

I'm going to assume that your C drive is an SSD. If so, this would be a great time to upgrade to a larger one. You can find 256 GB ones very cheap, and even get a great deal on a 500-512 GB, if you wanted to jump t that size.

 

You can move your personal files, (ie) Pictures, Music, Documents etc to the D: drive. This should free up a lot of space.
Go to Start/Search and type diskmgmt.msc, Right click the diskmgmt results and Run As Administrator. In the Elevated Disk Management window, in the lower pane, attach a screenshot in your next post.
If C: and D: are on the same disk (ie) Disk 0, Disk 1 etc, you may be able to increase the size of C: by using some of the D: drives space. If they are separate drives, then consider getting a larger SSD drive as suggested.