Taylor Campbell4 said:Hmm, looks like I’ll have to spend some time this week going through those five main folders—you know, My Videos, My Documents, My Music, My Pictures, and Downloads—to move their file locations from the C: drive over to the D: drive. Back when I was running Windows XP, I think I only ever had to bother doing that with My Documents.
I guess what I'm really thinking about now is whether I should just use some kind of partition manager to shrink down my C: drive, because if all my files aren't sitting there, there's really no reason for it to be hogging 250 GB. The built-in tool in Windows 7 won't let me shrink the C: partition, though. I tried using Partition Magic or whatever it's called, but it just isn't working for me. I think I saw something online about specific programs designed to shrink system partitions on Windows Vista... so I might try to track one of those down and see if they actually work.
Exactly. It's the same deal on Vista; you have to move each individual folder one by one.
Man, you definitely don't need 250GB just for the C: drive, and if you're looking to resize things, you can actually do that through Computer Management. You just hit Start, right-click on My Computer, go into Manage, then select Disk Management, and then you can right-click the C: partition and select Shrink Volume.
If you haven't spent much time messing around with partitions before, I'd honestly suggest you don't go poking around too much on your own; maybe ask someone who knows what they're doing first.
For actual partitioning work, Acronis Disk Director Suite is pretty solid, and it's what I usually rely on for stuff like this.