ie got a vista laptop which has 2 different hard drives. 55 gb vista 1 and 55 gb data 1. this is standard got it from pc world and havent touched it. i think the vista 1s supposed to have all the programs etc on that and any data like music word documents etc are meant to be saved onto the data hard drive but it doesnt and now my vistas full up i dont know what to do to get it to use the data 1 any help?

 

It wont have two hard drives. It will have one drive that has been partitioned into two drives.

click on "my computer" on the desk top, you will then see the drives that are on your laptop. The "local disc's" are the partitions on you hard drive.

Usually Local Disc C will be the drive that windows is loaded onto and the default drive that programs install to.

You will proably see a Local Disc D aswell?

 

nah on my computer theres a section called hard disk drives
theres vista(C and Data (E

 

what happens if you try and copy stuff to your data drive? error messges?

 

are you running norton?????? have the second hard drive backed up the 1st?????

 

no i dont want to copy stuff it should be doing it automatically my mates got the same laptop but cant see whats different in the settings. dont wanna pay a computer shop shed loads to sort it

 

As above, it will just be 1 hard drive partitioned up (just the way its been set up in the factory)

 

why do i keep getting a message the hardrive is full and i will need to get rid of information then because there 65 gb available on the othe hard drive?

 

65GB seems like a MASSIVE partition for a manufacturer to leave as a "recovery" partition.

Copy whatever large files/videos/pictures/music etc to your E drive.

Where are you based?

 

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i dont think people get what i mean. its been advertised as a 110 gb hard drive but split in half on coputer one called vista and one called hard drive but everything is automatically saved to the vista one. it was the 400 quid toshiba one that was on offer with pc world over christmas knwo 10 people with them in my school so must be a few people o here with one?

 

Everyone gets what you mean mate!!! Its ONE hard drive partitioned into two drives which then show as C: & E: hard drives under My Computer. Unfortunately once ones full it doesnt automatically flow over to the next one - you have to physically move things over & save things on the E: drive instead!!

 

yes mine is newish and mine is partitioned into 2 drives.....

music and other stuff is in my secondary side......

 

Theres ya problem anyway, it runs Vista