Partitions

I would rather not have a D drive, but have everything all in one drive to use the 1 terabyte of space there. But my pc partitions are not set up that way, and I am afraid if I tried to resize them, I would mess it up. Please walk me through that process. Thank you in advance for any advice you can give me. View attachment 15137

 

One more related subject; if the one partition with the C drive in it gets full will space automatically open up up in the other drive D? D has nearly 1 Terabyte of space. If that is the case then I do not really need to combine them.

 

Then it is imperative that I learn how to expand C from D without losing any data. From what I have seen of doing that via Windows means deleting the data out of one drive, reducing it and then expanding the C drive.

I will visit this site and see what the info says. Thank You. However, if it involves doing it via Windows, I hesitate. Is there not software that can resize partitions with losing or deleting data safely? As you can see by the attachment, the C drive is almost full.

 

I am in a bad situation here as I am getting shut down by Windows and error reports sent due to memory management errors. I have to hard boot the pc each time. The tutorial was fine for someone who is a bit better versed on partitions than I am. But I am old and unable to understand it all. This is the problem: I have two disks, a solid state SATA GPT 119 GB and a 1 TB SATA MBR. I am running out of space on the 119 GB disk. Can these two disks be combined? They are different types, one is GPT and the other is MBR. I need to use that nearly 1 TB of space, but I do not know if these two can be combined.
I did download software since last I posted, but even that is confusing to me. Likewise, I do not want to delete anything and I want to keep the data in both places. However, this software tells me that all data will be erased if I proceed. I cannot back up the data because I do not have an available media to do it with. This is a small Island I live on and there is no computer store here, so I have to do it all myself. What should I do?

 

It is a Bosston Desk top that I bought used. It is a former gaming computer.
Even if I try to move things to the D drive, the pc goes into blue screen and gathers information to send to Microsoft. It is stop code error Memory Management. Which makes sense. Same thing when I try to pull up my Google browser. I never know when it is going to happen. Isn't there anything I can do to at least stop the blue screen errors?
I could possibly order a larger C drive if I knew what I was ordering. Likewise, I would have to put it in myself. As far as cloning is concerned, no idea how to do that.
So the software will do me no good?
I will keep trying to move stuff from C to D as it will let me. Thanks.

 

I moved as much stuff as I could to D and deleted apps I did not need right now. It did free up some space, see attachments.

 

Like I said above, I removed as much as I dared from Drive C to D. I went into D and played a movie. About 20 minutes into the movie, the pc went to blue screen again and began collecting data to do a restart. I did a hard boot at that point.
There must be more to this than just a disk getting full. The desk is not that full now. Also, I ran the disk clean up Windows tool on both and then ran defrag on both.

 

Since Windows was going down so much I decided to do the obvious thing and reset Windows and keep my personal files. After that completed I ran the same movies I was watching when it went down. So far things are working normally. I realize now that I need to only download apps that I absolutely need. But how this solved the problem of Memory error I do not know except that perhaps I had too many apps to begin with on a 223 MB system. Thank You.

 

I did have one concern when my WI-FI connection was cut off. When I did not see connections for Wi-Fi I went to the help option and found the app for automatic connections. I added it and it worked. Thankfully. Many thanks to you for the help.

 

IJAC, I come back to you since you know about my set up with two seperate disks and all.
Having lots of trouble playing movies after I move them to D disk. It seems they get corrupted in the process of moving them. I must record them from the C disk because that is where the recoding device is at. However I must move them to D because I have limited space on C disk and have 1 TB on D disk. Yet the movies I already have on D disk play just fine. The ones I move now though get corrupted, very strange. The only way I have to move them is by drag and drop no other way exists for this machine. I know the answer lies in getting a larger disk drive for C but I cannot do that right now.
Would it be possible for me to install the recorder 4K video recorder on to D disk? Would the movies play better if the recorder and the movie download were on the same disk? No movies would have to be moved then. I wish I could just put my whole OS on D dick and be done with it but I know Windows cannot run on such a configuration. Thanks for your thoughts.

 

IJAC This is the most frustrating Windows I have ever worked with since the 1990s.
Now the recorder does not give me the option to save videos to D disk.
So I tried to run the installer on D disk but it would not allow that.
Nor will the system allow me even as Admisistrator to rt click and copy to D.
The thing is this is a new install of Windows 10 keeping my files. This being a Gammer PC I wonder if it is configured in some way to keep gammers from going into the system and doing damage?
Since I can send recorded movies from C to my external hard drive and they play fine, I think I will just buy another large SSD ext drive and forget about D. Its a shame to not be able to use all that space but it is what it is. Thanks.

 

Update; all it took to get everything working again and access to the various disks was a Windows reset. Now everything works fine.