Hard Drive partistion, C & D, D not functioning. 3

[GGunnarr]

I have a Compaq presario pentium III that was given to me. It has Windows XP Pro OS.(version 2002) It has a 80 GB hardrve that is partistioned, C system and D.File system NTFS. Since I have had this computer it has always put everything on C, which is now full, (14.65GB). The D partistion is 99% free,(59.85GB). How do I get the D drive partistion to function? I can DSCHK D which it says is good but C has frozen up and won't clean sweep. When I right click on COMPUTER/manage/Disk managment. I get the Harddrive partistion information and it says it is "Healthy on both C & D. I tried FORMAT but stopped at the warning as I'm a computer tech creampuff. It Has a 598MHz cpu and 256MB ram.
Thank you in advance and if more info is needed let me know and I will get right back to you. GGunnarr

 

[stduc]

OK - I'll try to keep this simple.

I am assuming you have stored all your files under "My Documents" and that is the problem as you have filled drive C.

What you need to do is move stuff over to drive D to free space on C.

From "My computer" - double click on the D drive to open it and then right click, select "new folder" and rename it "My files" - for the sake of argument - and then open it.

From the "start" menu open "My documents". Select everything and drag it over to the "My files" folder on D.

When you are happy it all copied OK then trash the stuff in "My Documents" and right click "My files" and copy it over to my documents as a shortcut.

Empty the recycle bin.

In future store everything under "My Files". - When you get prompted to save anything you should see the "My Files" shortcut and can select that to get over to that folder quickly.

There are better & cleverer ways to achieve the same thing - But this works and is simple.

 

[ASG0856]

Other options
From My Computer
Right Click on the C:\ Drive
Select Drive Cleanup

After a while a window will open with all the 'files' it has found to clear' (recycle bin, temporary internet etc). Select all of them.
Click Advanced.
In the restore point options, Select delete all but last restore point.

This will probably clear a lot of space on the c:\ drive for you

 

[Freestone]

Another alternative is to forgot about the D: partition altogether and give its space to the C: partition with software like Acronis Disk Director or Partition Magic.