I Received A Strange Notificatiion

utahperson
utahperson Member Posts: 19 Troubleshooter
edited February 15 in 2019 Archives
It said: Your computer is running low on storage space. We can free some up by deleting your previous version of Windows. Warning: You won't be able to go back to it.
I just got this computer and it has 2 TB of HD. What does this mean?

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  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 34,306 Trailblazer
    edited June 2019 Answer ✓
    Exactly, C:\ is the SSD and D:\ is the HDD. Windows doesn't play well with merging two disks of dissimilar types, so you get two drive letters. You can tell Windows to move your profile folders to the D: drive, which will create a Users\username\xxx folder for Documents, Music, Videos, etc. in the D: drive. That's the quickest solution. You might run into problems with that and certain Windows updates, in the past they haven't taken that scenario in mind when building updates. You can also manually move data to the D: drive and just make sure when you download something you put it on D:. You can also reinstall apps and change their install directory to D:\xxx.
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  • MaClane
    MaClane ACE Posts: 35,598 Trailblazer
    Good Morning utahperson !

    Which EXACT template of your computer?
    Which version of Windows?
    Is the HDD partitioned?


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  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 34,306 Trailblazer
    Only a 2TB drive, or a 2TB HDD plus an SSD?
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  • utahperson
    utahperson Member Posts: 19 Troubleshooter
    It has and Intel i7 Processor, 32 Gb RAM, 2 TB Storage and 256 GB SSD.
  • utahperson
    utahperson Member Posts: 19 Troubleshooter
    Did companies switch Drive C to Drive D because of the SSD? Before SSD I always used C Drive for data.
  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 34,306 Trailblazer
    edited June 2019 Answer ✓
    Exactly, C:\ is the SSD and D:\ is the HDD. Windows doesn't play well with merging two disks of dissimilar types, so you get two drive letters. You can tell Windows to move your profile folders to the D: drive, which will create a Users\username\xxx folder for Documents, Music, Videos, etc. in the D: drive. That's the quickest solution. You might run into problems with that and certain Windows updates, in the past they haven't taken that scenario in mind when building updates. You can also manually move data to the D: drive and just make sure when you download something you put it on D:. You can also reinstall apps and change their install directory to D:\xxx.
    Dang, the forum software is changing all my Dee-Colon to frowny faces. :)
    Click on "Like" if you find my answer useful or click on "Yes" if it answers your question.

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