how do I switch my Primary hard disk drive with my secondary hard disk drive?

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i dont know much about computers but the main basics… but can anyone help me. i have to hard drives one is named Gateway (C:) and has 538MB free of 42.5 GB and the other is Local Disk (D:) and has 859 GB free of 931 GB. i want to make it so when whenever i save anything itr automatically saves to the Local Disk (D:). is anyone following me here? please help or send a video or something??!!!!!

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  • Normally it is the other way around. The C drive has more space that the D drive. C drive is where you would normally store your personal files. Are you sure you don’t have it backwards?

    If not the advise below is the same just swap C for D and visa versa.

    Your ‘D” drive is the restore drive aka a partition drive. It is where the original configuration and files are stored. If for some reason you need to reformat your “c” drive (a fresh install) those files would be gotten from the “d” drive”

    You should never mess with the D drive unless you know what you’re doing and have made a restore disc. Otherwise if or when you need to completely reinstall your software to it original setting your not going to have those files.

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    Source(s): http://h125.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&…

  • Your partition seems off. By default most programs write to the c drive, although you can manually change that when you install something. A good partition is 70% c and 30% d drive. You actually only have one hard drive but it is partitioned into a logical drive. You cannot change that unless you are willing to reinstall windows. You can split the d drive into more logical drives, but this is not what your question is. There is no way to automatically save to d drive. This is because by default windows looks for programs under c:program files, if you change it windows will not find it because it will look under c, you will need to have windows manually look for d.

  • Leave it as is and just use “D” as a storage drive , when you back up back up the “C” to the “D”. I assume C is 6GB and D is 1TB, what eve you use to back up you do it manually or via your Anti-Virus once it is set or set at a certain time it will do it

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  • Through the BIOS.

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