Requesting Knowledgeable Partition/Volume Assistance - Windows 10

[LABFE]

New out of the box PC (a week or two of use) with Windows 10, with Fabs personal file restore from old PC that was also running Windows 10. I find a C: drive titled "Windows" at 7GB free of 118GB and a D: drive titled "Data" at about 885GB free of 885GB (nothing on it). Customer getting messages that "computer storage was running low." Based on some Microsoft guidance I found online it looked like I would be able to just delete the empty D: drive and then expand the C: drive. All of the customer's personal files are already on the C: drive. However, once I deleted the D: drive it appears as though it merged with the F: drive which is a small external hard drive. F: drive now shows 848GB free of 931GB.

 

[MichaelBits]

What happens if you unplug the external drive?

 

[phaZed]

So, the D: drive was part of the external. You can't expand a partition upon multiple drives. Sounds like the CPU has a 128GB SSD.

 

[LABFE]

What happens if you unplug the external drive?

I'll try that.

 

[LABFE]

So, the D: drive was part of the external. You can't expand a partition upon multiple drives. Sounds like the CPU has a 128GB SSD.

The external drive is small. Pretty certain the PC has a 1TB HDD.

 

[LABFE]

What happens if you unplug the external drive?

So when I unplugged it the F: drive just went away.

 

[LABFE]

Okay, I've got specs now. The PC has 1TB HDD and 128GB SSD. So I can see now that I just need to try to get a new D: drive and move personal files over to it. Then tell Windows to save new data to D: Thoughts on removing that space from the F: drive?

*Then there still being the separate small external drive.

I figure C: is the PC's SSD. Data needs to go to the 1TB HDD.

 

[MichaelBits]

Check disk management to see what's going on with the disks.
Keep the external unplugged until it's sorted.

 

[LABFE]

Maybe the storage space with D: just became unallocated space and the external drive is larger than I thought. Perhaps the external drive is 1TB as well.

 

[nlinecomputers]

What does DISK MANAGEMENT say? It should show you a graphic picture of the partitions on each drive. Sounds like you need to redirect the user folder over to the 1TB drive.

 

[LABFE]

Check disk management to see what's going on with the disks.
Keep the external unplugged until it's sorted.

Okay, working on that now.

 

[LABFE]

This is with external detached. So I should be able to just create a new simple volume on Disk 1? This obviously being the internal 1TB HDD.

 

[MichaelBits]

So I should be able to just create a new simple volume on Disk 1?

Correct.

I would also remove the drive letter from the recovery drive, no reason for it to show in Windows.


Then redirect User folders to it.

 

[LABFE]

Correct.

I would also remove the drive letter from the recovery drive, no reason for it to show in Windows.


Then redirect User folders to it.

Thanks, sir. Would you just do a drag n drop of the "Users" folder, simply from C: to D:?

 

[nlinecomputers]

Thanks, sir. Would you just do a drag n drop of the "Users" folder, simply from C: to D:?

No that will break windows. Google "changing the location of Users folder in Windows 10"

 

[LABFE]

So I'm following the guidance below, however, when I go into properties (step 6) there isn't a Location tab.

http://www.dummies.com/computers/op...e-the-location-of-user-folders-in-windows-10/

 

[nlinecomputers]

You can't change the location of the USERS folder that way. Only the My Document folders UNDER users.

 

[nlinecomputers]

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1964-move-users-folder-location-windows-10-a.html

 

[LABFE]

Okay, thanks. I was actually reading it at the time you posted the link.

 

[LABFE]

You know, now learning of this can anyone tell me why the system wouldn't have been setup like this prior to it being shipped to the customer. What, an end user is supposed to be able to figure out that they need to move their User folder from the SSD to the HDD? It just seems like this should have been configured in the factory.

Also, the following warning concerns me:

*Short: Relocating Users folder with Sysprep should only be done on new, clean installs!Trying this Method Two, relocating Users on an existing installation might force you to do a complete reinstall or restore your PC to factory state.

Sure, it's sort of a clean install at this point, but I have done a Fabs restore and the customer has used the PC some. I would obviously create a system image first, but still.