Windows 10: Moving C Drive Files to D drive in order to have dual OS setup

I currently use windows 10, and have a 250gb C drive and a Terrabyte D drive. I mainly store apps on the C and files on the D, but I would like to boot Linux onto my C drive so I can use dual Operating systems. Can I just drag and drop all the files from my C Drive to my D drive and still have functioning windows, and for this to work would I have to set my D drive to be my C drive?

Any advice on not fucking things up would be greatly appreciated, sorry if this is a noob question.

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C drive full, how to move some to D drive

Hi Dan,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

I understand that your computer is running out of space and you would like to move the data from C drive to D Drive.

• When you say “How can I move some GB's from C to external D drive?“ do you want to free space on the c drive or do you want to extent the C partition?

If you want to free up space on C drive, I suggest to follow the below given suggestions.

Personal files such as videos, music, photos, and documents can take up a lot of space on your device. To see which files are using the most space:

1. Select File Explorer from the taskbar and find the files you want to move.
   
2. Under This PC in the menu on the left, select a folder to see what files are saved in it. The
   Videos, Music, Pictures, and
   Downloads folders usually contain the largest files that you’ve saved to your device.
   
3. To see the size of the files in a folder, select
   View > Details. Right-click in the open space and then select
   Sort by > Size to show the largest files at the top of the list.
   
4. If there are files you no longer need on your device, you can either delete them or move them to an external storage device like a USB drive or an SD card.
   

Note: If you delete any files, remember to empty the Recycle Bin to completely remove them from your device and free up space.

To move photos, music, videos, or other files that you want to keep but don't use very often, consider saving them to an external storage device like a USB drive or an SD card. You'll still be able to use them when the drive is connected, but they won't take
up space on your PC.

1. Connect an external storage device like a USB drive or SD card to your PC.
   
2. Select File Explorer from the taskbar and go to the folder that contains the files you want to move.
   
3. Select the files, select the Home tab, and then select
   Move to > Choose location.
   
4. Select the external storage device you connected in the location list, and then select
   Move.

In Windows 10 you can also move the installed Windows Store apps to any other drive in order to free up space. You can also change the path of the default installation directory, for new apps.

If you would like to move the installed apps to another drive, try the below given suggestions.

Press Windows key + I to bring up the Settings menu and click Apps. You should be on the
Apps & features page of the left-hand navigation.

Click on the app entry that you would like to move to a different drive to see
Move and Uninstall
options. Click Move button and then select a drive of your choice to move the app.

Note: When you click on a traditional desktop program or an app that came preinstalled with Windows 10, Windows 10 offers only Uninstall option and you can’t move desktop applications
using this method.

For more information on how to free up space on your computer I suggest you refer to the suggestion from the given article

Free up drive space in Windows 10 - Windows Help

Regards,

Zaki

 

What to move from C drive to D drive

Hi,

I have a laptop with a 118GB SSD C drive and a 920GB HDD D drive. I have only a few megabytes of space left on my C drive so I need to start moving things from my C drive to my D drive to free up space. However, I have no idea what I can move to the D drive.
I already store all of my documents on my D drive so I can't move those. Should I move the program files? Would that slow down my apps on startup?

Many thanks for your help.

 

Switching C: and D: drives

Please do give us the screen cap of disk management, that will help.

We just have to figure out why your D: drive is not working.

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I could not find that specific model anywhere. I found this one

https://www.amazon.ca/Asus-Q534UX-2-1-i7-7500U/...

that seems to have similar specs.

It is spec'd as a dual drive, which matches your description of Disk 0 and Disk1. And the drive sizes match the specs.

(I have a similar machine, just a couple of years older: smaller SSD, slightly earlier CPU.)

I STRONGLY suggest you keep your C: drive where it is, on the SSD!!!

The SSD is orders of magnitude faster than the larger HD. You will see a massive slowdown in performance if you move your C: drive to the HD. A 512GB SSD is way more than enough for OS and applications. You could even store some / MANY frequently used data
files on. I partitioned my SSD to create a smaller data partition for data files, as well as the HD second drive for data.

Actually, I am looking to replace my 1TB HD with a 500GB SSD. I am willing to trade off the extra storage space for the overall improvement in performance I expect to see by using 2 SSD. The large HD D: drive is intended for data files, NOT the OS! (I am trying
to be very emphatic about advising you to not do the change, it is not worth it)

After giving that "free advice", I guess I should ask what you expect to gain by moving the OS to the bigger HD.