C: drive & D: drive somehow got swaped.?

Question

my C: drive shows 13GB of memory while my D: drive shows 55GB of memory.

Funny thing is all the correct files are on the C: drive and it's using 93%(programs, documents, music, pictures, etc...).

My D: drive has only four files and is using only 1%.

I want to designate the drive with the most memory available as the local C: drive. How can I accomplish that?..

Thanks in advance for the time and the help, appreciate it.

Answer 1

First off your drives did not get swapped. What really happened is that you have two drives C and D. Your C drive is your primary (master) drive and it contains your operating system and all of your system files. Your D drive is just a secondary (slave) drive and it is only used for backup.

If you switch the drives around by changing registry keys your computer will not boot, because your D drive does not contain the proper system files. What you should do is keep all of your music, pictures, videos, and documents on the D drive to free up space. I would just use it as a backup drive; however, since you are running out of space on your C drive you should transfer the larger files to your D drive (pictures and videos). Then from now on install all of your programs onto your D drive and you will be fine.

If you really want to redo everything and swap the drives around. Then a complete reload would be required where you swap the drives inside of your computer and change the jumpers. Honestly it isn't worth it. Just transfer your files NOT THE PROGRAMS (transferring the program files will cause them not to work) and you will be fine.

Answer 2

Change the names...I don't completely understand your problem, If all you want to do is make the D drive the C drive and vise versa, then just go to both and do this: right click, rename, enter name. If that's not your problem then please add info. Other than that I don't really think you can make the C drive the D drive and the D drive the C drive...you certainly can't trade files.

Answer 3

You have to move your files to the D drive manually. Actually, this partitioning was done intentionally, so that a) your operating system would perform better because the partition it's installed on isn't full of files, and b) if you have to reinstall Windows, you woudn't lose all of your data.

If you really want to make one drive for everything, open Disk Management, delete the D partition (first, make sure there's nothing important on it!) and expand the C partition to fill the remaining space.