Please help. Any computer geniuses? Or any body who knows anything about computers!! lol....?

Question

Is it save to move my Documents and Settings folder in drive C: to my D: drive?

D: is completely unused and has been for a year now.

I thought there were two hard drives for when the space ran out on one, but apparently if I put my data on one hard drive and my programs on the other, it might run faster.

So please can you tell me a safe way of doing this. And, is it safe?

What else would you recommend me put on my second hard drive?

Answer 1

You didn't tell us how much space there is on drive D:

SO if your comp uses drive D as your backup drive, then there may not be much space on it.

BUT, if D: is empty, go and use it.

I would put any important files on it, like pics and games you really like.

You might consider using it as a backup drive though, especially if you don't have backups now of your important files.

Your gonna find out sooner or later that you wished you had made backups cuz a Hard drive don't last forever :-)

Answer 2

Let me tell you what I do and  recommend. It is always a better idea to have my documents on a external hard drive. I keep my documents on a usb external hard drive and the neat thing is you can take it to any computer. its a like a giant flash disk. you said that you have another drive that I am assuming is in your computer as a slave or secondary hard drive. if I was you I would not keep any important documents on your C:\ drive. If you get a virus or that hard drive crashes or your system wont boot up any more then you'll have big problems getting that data back. Simply move your data on your d:\ drive and make sure that you format it first. before you format it make sure that there is no data on your d:\ drive. if you have xp, format to ntfs and allow compression. After you do that, start making folders and start moving your data to your new drive. as for me I still recommend an external hard drive for convenience reasons. In conclusion it is a good idea to move your files to another drive other then the one you have windows installed. I hope this info has helped you.