Gettin errors of hard drive full and I just bought this program and it will not work.
I hope I did not waste my money because I thought I could reallocate the space that my OS is apparently installed on my Dell laptop and is labeled C drive. I only have a primary hard drive and it is like 500 gb and the OS is allocated like 59 gb and I am getting errors (not enough space) of Windows and Adobe not wanting to install the updates. I saw Acronis example of taking the assumption of a second hard drive and changing the sizes, but if you notice above it the first hard drive that has recovery, OS, etc. is what my situation is. I hope this is not that complicated but appears to be. I also did not realize Windows 7 lets you do very similar functions and I did shrink my drive D as it is like 320 gb down and then I went into Acronis program and tried to expand the OS or Drive C and it will not let me, even though I saw plenty of allocated space. I changed it back to original layout and now I am looking for any suggestions. Thanks.
First of all, thank you for responding, as I pretty much panicked when I attempted it and just tried to put it back. I was so disappointed that I almost was not going to even check this forum again. So, the answer to your question was it was to the right of the D partition. I do not even know how to do screen shot images, unless you are referring to the print screen on my keyboard, but then I still don't know what to do with that. Sorry, I am just not that knowledgeable like I use to be. If you can tell me I will do it next time, but if you drop me I'll understand, if not I will do whatever you say. So, how do you move the allocated space to where you want it? Just to let you know, going left to right it shows: Local volume 100 MB FAT16, RECOVERY 9.766 GB, OS (C:) 58.59 GB NTFS, Local Volume (D:) 397.3 GB NTFS with no slashes, but brown in color. Space available in same order: 91.06 MB, 3.335 GB, 1.190 GB, 393.4 GB. So, as you can see I would have thought a 500 GB hard drive would not be having an issue of running out of disc space, except, I see it was allocated this way and if and after this is resolved you can explain what the heck is going on as we use this laptop very minimally, but I did load a few programs like Microsoft office with very few documents, Itunes- with @ 3,500 songs and there were already Dell programs loaded.
Ronnie:
Although a screenshot would be helpful, you have provided enough information in your reply to give me an idea of what's happening.
Your Windows 7 partition is 58.59 GB and there is only 1.19 GB of free space left on the partition. 58 GB is more than enough space for Windows 7. You also mentioned that you loaded a few programs (no problem) and ITunes with 3,500 songs. Therein lies the problem. ITunes by default places its library in the User folder on the main Windows partition. Unless you specify otherwise, it will also store the music files there, and 3,500 songs probably occupy 30 GB or more.
Although you could make your C partition larger and the D partition smaller, there are other ways to solve this problem. You might be better off moving the music files to your D partition where you have plenty of space available for them. Here's an article from Apple that describes how to do that: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1364?viewlocale=en_US
If you would rather change the size of your partitions then just reply again and I'll try to help...
Thanks for the information, but why am I having to do this at all? I had been used to the one drive using XP for all these years and it sounds like someone has decided to break up the drive for multiple uses at least on this laptop. Why do we need a large hard drive at all and just have an external drive to send everything we do on a computer to it. I thought computers is suppose to make our life simplier and it is requiring more interaction. I am okay with it if I new what I was doing. I understand what your recommending, but now I will have to search the folder on my D drive? As I am typing this it is copying the songs over to the D drive. You are now telling me if we want to open My Music folder in Windows 7 on the C drive it will now be empty of iTunes stuff? Can I name the folder exactly as it is layed out on the C drive, but be on the D drive or does it really matter long term what I name it? Here is exactly how it is layed out on the C drive: C:\USERS\Mary\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media The new location and folder name I created is D:\Marys Music. I also assume I need to empty my Music folder and any other folder that iTunes was using correct? Now, that I think about it I had a lot of documents and I assume I might need to move them over to the D drive also and I would follow the same process? But again, it will not be using My Documents anymore in Windows 7. I will after all this like to know how to move and change the sizes since I did buy this program to do that.
Ronnie,
I'm not an i-tunes user so have never used the program but you appear from what you've written, to have given the music folder on the D:\ partition a different name to that when it was on the C:\ partition. Your i-tunes software might not find the music the first time around, not a big problem as I'm sure it has a method of finding the music folder, just be aware that it might not do what you are used to the first time you attempt to use it.
Large drives are often broken up into smaller partitions in order to make things easier to find - for example not having data (such as music or movies etc) mixed up with the operating system partition, it is also used to provide a form of insulation between the OS partition and other programs that you may install, if they ruin the partition (drive letter) hopefully the other partititons such as your C:\ (the OS) won't be damaged. It's a bit like having separate rooms in a house, each have their own function, and if you make a mess in one room it doesn't effect the others.
Annoyingly most software installers still operate with the thinking of the 1990's and earlier when disks were expensive and much smaller and will automatically install everything onto the C:\ partition. Normally there is an option to 'customise' the install, selecting this option allows you to install to other partitions if you wish.
To make a screenshot in Windows 7 is quite easy, Microsoft have provided a special program called Snipping Tool. You'll find it under \START\ALL PROGRAMS\ACCESSORIES. With DD11 running, just select the snipping tool, the screen will go opaque, with the left mouse button held down draw a red rectangle around the part of the screen you wish to make a screen grab of. When done click on save, give the snipshot a name and then close down the snipping tool.
To post the image here, click on the file attachments heading below the text box, click on browse, find where you saved the image to, then click on attach. That's it.
Your attachment won't show up as the ones I've attached will as part of the text here, but they will appear as links to where they are stored on the forum server as are mine where it says attachments.
In Windows you can move the My documents folder, however there is a special way of doing that, don't just copy it, that won't work.
If you can post a picture of how DD11 shows the layout of your drive, it will save any misunderstandings when giving you instructions on how to resize your drive.
