DE FRAG

depending on the your computer manufacturer???, section D is probably a restore partition just in-case everything goes tits up:thumb:

 

acer 1642 wlmi lap top

 

Yer it will be a restore partition then especially as it's an acer laptop:thumb: if you right click on that like you did with drive C and see how big it is (probably about 20gigs? might of changed since I last owned an acer laptop) there not actually that useful anyway as if something happens thats bad enough that you actually need the recovery partition the average user wont know what to do with it and so would probably ask the help of an IT person (who wouldn't use the restore partition any way:dh

if you know someone who is pretty well informed about computers you could get them to remove it and then you could put the extra room to more use, It's really just personal preference:gnthb:

 

I did away with my partition as I back up most of my 'must have' stuff on memory sticks (8Gb ones) so no need for it. Or - you can make your secondary section a lot smaller. Didn't do it myself - got a computer chappie to do it for me.

BTW 40Gb is like .... tiny! Most HD these days are a minimum of 80Gb and moving upward all the time. Mine is presentlly 250Gb. I have an Acer LT too.

 

I too don't see much point in partitioning a HDD unless you are running two operating systems. My HDD is about 400Gb and I back-up most stuff onto two large capacity external drives and any really critical stuff I also copy to CDs.

 

OK Last Question (for now anyway):dh:
If i save all my photos to photbucket for example ,can i delete them from my pictures and still have them saved there ,i will save them to a memory stick or cd anyway .:cnfs:

 

do you mean if you upload them to Photobucket and then delete them from you PC will they stay on Photobucket?

then yes:thmb:

 

that will give me loads of room

 

Pam I wouldn't put all your precious pics only onto PB. It does have lots of attractive features like being able to access your pics from any PC anywhere in the world, but like any other commercial company there is no guarantee that it will always be there or will maintain all it's free features. It's also fairly easy to hack into (particularly if folk don't set passwords) and access other folks pics without permission.

You've got the right idea copying onto CD, but if you can afford it an additional, portable large hard drive that plugs into a USB socket would be worth thinking about. I've just had a quick look on Amazon and a 500GB drive is £58 and a 120GB is £39. They'll almost certainly be available cheaper elsewhere.

 

PC World are doing a 1TB (1000GB) external HD for £80 at the moment. I am very tempted to add that to my 250GB internal and my other external 250GB usb which i mainly use for picture storage. You can never have enough...
robert

 

you see i dont understand all these hard drives hd and gb giga bites :cnfs: i will look into it all ,and make my mind up , :flag: ive got picasso (google) and hp photosmart aswell are these ok

 

Boy oh boy! Doesn't technology move fast!
About ten years ago I was leading a team introducing IT into school admin and we thought that 500MB was a whopping big drive!

I wonder how long it takes to run a de-frag on 1TB

 

"I wonder how long it takes to run a de-frag on 1TB"

Certainly be an overnight job Dave..
You are right... terabytes was star trek stuff not so long ago.
robert

 

College runs petabyte drives...:roll:

 

Thank you pamdish & all repliers - this was something I was looking at too and like you, Pam, I didn't have a clue whether to delete earlier versions! Going off to do it now & will let you all know how it goes (and do the 'thank you's) .

I thought 'd' drive was the 'floppy',lol, disk drive!!! Shows how much I know! Am definately going to look into an external hd too.

cheers