posted on August 26, 2005 06:49:32 AM
Now that I have my end of the month listing ready - I want to take care of some computer stuff I've been putting off.
A friend installed a new hard drive for me a few weeks ago. He told me that I have 2 hard drives - C has all my operating systems on it and D is where I should download any new programs.
This sounds great if only I knew how to do this????
Can anyone explain this in simple terms that I can understand.
Thanks
posted on August 26, 2005 08:08:30 AM
Hi ladyjewels. If youre going to download to a different drive, you just have to change the location in the dialog box of the download. Usually it says c:\desktop or c:\mydocuments -- whatever***
-- Just look at the dialog box where it says "location" and go in that box and change the line to D:\ and your new program should download to the D drive. (You might want to make a folder on d so you know where you put things.)
btw, I always thought the d drive was a partition assigned on the c drive as safe or backup drive. I am surprized you added a whole 'nuther physical hard drive, and he assigned it as the "d" drive. But I guess you can do anything you want with it.
posted on August 26, 2005 09:17:27 AM
He said I could really hurt anything so I just download that reminder thing from another post and it seemed to work fine.
Thanks dblfugger9
What I did was when the dialog box came up I changed it to d and just typed in "Reminder" or something like that. It added a shortcut so I think I'm good to go.
"btw, I always thought the d drive was a partition assigned on the c drive as safe or backup drive. I am surprized you added a whole 'nuther physical hard drive, and he assigned it as the "d" drive. But I guess you can do anything you want with it."
Now see you lost me here - I also don't know how to make a folder for d unless that's what I did with the reminder.
I'm getting ready to add my anti virus program - will it run on both?
Feel free to laugh at any point.
posted on August 26, 2005 09:28:32 AM
ladyjewels, yes it will run on both drives. Never mind about the folders. And No laughing here. I never expect anybody to know everything about everything. Until you get to where you need to know about something or want to know about it, it doesnt really matter.
posted on August 26, 2005 11:25:20 AM
Will I guess I didn't do it right after all. When I check the properties of the Reminder Programs it's in C.
I know how to right click and set up a new folder on the desktop but it puts it in C - can I do it in D the same way??
Most of my memory is in D so I need to do something pretty soon.
Thanks
