2 hard disks. How to save downloads on the other one.

**barbaro** · 14-06-2013, 01:04 AM

My old and main laptop back in the US did this easily.

My newer Asus has 2 separat hard drives for a total of 300 gb of space.

One drive, the C drive is full. But I cannot figure out how to save new torrent downloads onto the D drive. It is empty. I cannot find out where to select to download to D drive. I cannot move files to D drive to give me more space on C.

My computer tells me "not enough space on C drive" while the D drive is empty.

I'd appreciate any advice and help. Thanks.

**blue** · 14-06-2013, 01:57 AM

using Utorrents as an example to change where torrents are saved

1
click--
options top left

2
then in the drop down menu click
preferences

3
a window will opens up, click
directories
there's a little square box with a tick it in and next to it it says
''put new torrents in ''
and underneath where the torrents are stored now .

4
To change that location, look on the right and there's a little square box with three dots in it , click that ,
5
then in the window that opens find your D drive and click it open
6
then click new folder
a new folder will made - you can rename it if you like,
7
click select folder

and a new path to that folder should make it the new storage destination .
Check to make sure ie start at the top 1, 2, 3 .

But i think you may lose the ability to seed torrents in the old drive , because is cannot find them ,
-not sure .

If thats too much
you can make a new folder on the D drive
and copy some already downloaded torrents files to it
then after making sure they have been copied correctly
delete the files from the first drive
freeing up space .

**dozen** · 14-06-2013, 04:50 AM

You should probably open your torrent download program of choice and find something like 'settings' there and change 'default download folder' parameter

You should probably named your torrent downloader programmer if you want precise instructions. I'm using uTorrent and it's shows download folder then i double click on .torrent file.

**Necron99** · 14-06-2013, 09:20 AM

300 gb on two drives on a new laptop,seems kinda light.
Are you sure the D drive is a partition?, Win 7 creates a secure partition for its own use.
How big is each drive?

**barbaro** · 15-06-2013, 01:50 AM

Originally Posted by Necron99

300 gb on two drives on a new laptop,seems kinda light.
Are you sure the D drive is a partition?, Win 7 creates a secure partition for its own use.
How big is each drive?

Thanks for the response.

it is actually Windows 7 Starter - crap and slow, i know.

Each drive, I will check how big. 100 gb or more.

**BigRed** · 15-06-2013, 03:24 AM

Originally Posted by Necron99

300 gb on two drives on a new laptop,seems kinda light.
Are you sure the D drive is a partition?, Win 7 creates a secure partition for its own use.
How big is each drive?

I think you have hit the nail on the head there. It's unusual for a laptop to have 2 physical drives, quite normal for a D: drive labeled Recovery or some such. Also unusual to get a drive smaller than 320GB these days unless it's an SSD. If it's your one and only PC get yourself an external drive 1TB is very reasonable cost these days and if you have USB 3.0 will have good performance. If you have more than one, invest in a NAS device (Network Attached Storage) these will make sharing over your network easy and normally feature a torrent client so it will do your downloads and seeding 24x7.

Try installing Belarc Advisor, a free utility which will do an inventory of your computer. Mine shows:

Drives new – drive encryption Memory Modules c,d 2999.42 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
110.60 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-216AB [Optical drive]

Multiple Card Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 1
SAMSUNG HD204UI [Hard drive] (2000.40 GB) -- drive 0, s/n S2H7J9JBA06875, rev 1AQ10001, SMART Status: Healthy
Seagate Desktop USB Device [Hard drive] (1000.20 GB) -- drive 2, s/n 2GHK4SFA 6126 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Slot 'A1_DIMM0' has 4096 MB (serial number 0A6D0D6B)
Slot 'A1_DIMM1' has 2048 MB (serial number A1_SerNum1) Local Drive Volumes new – volume encryption

c: (NTFS on drive 0) * 1945.53 GB 33.58 GB free

d: (NTFS on drive 0) 53.69 GB 32.32 GB free

g: (NTFS on drive 2) 1000.20 GB 44.70 GB free

* Operating System is installed on c:
Note my internal drive is 2TB and described as drive 0 on the left. On the right it lists my logical drives, with C: and D: both being on drive 0.

**barbaro** · 16-06-2013, 03:49 AM

Originally Posted by BigRed

Originally Posted by Necron99

300 gb on two drives on a new laptop,seems kinda light.
Are you sure the D drive is a partition?, Win 7 creates a secure partition for its own use.
How big is each drive?

I think you have hit the nail on the head there. It's unusual for a laptop to have 2 physical drives, quite normal for a D: drive labeled Recovery or some such. Also unusual to get a drive smaller than 320GB these days unless it's an SSD. If it's your one and only PC get yourself an external drive 1TB is very reasonable cost these days and if you have USB 3.0 will have good performance. If you have more than one, invest in a NAS device (Network Attached Storage) these will make sharing over your network easy and normally feature a torrent client so it will do your downloads and seeding 24x7.

Try installing Belarc Advisor, a free utility which will do an inventory of your computer. Mine shows:

Drives new – drive encryption Memory Modules c,d 2999.42 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
110.60 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-216AB [Optical drive]

Multiple Card Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 1
SAMSUNG HD204UI [Hard drive] (2000.40 GB) -- drive 0, s/n S2H7J9JBA06875, rev 1AQ10001, SMART Status: Healthy
Seagate Desktop USB Device [Hard drive] (1000.20 GB) -- drive 2, s/n 2GHK4SFA 6126 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Slot 'A1_DIMM0' has 4096 MB (serial number 0A6D0D6B)
Slot 'A1_DIMM1' has 2048 MB (serial number A1_SerNum1) Local Drive Volumes new – volume encryption

c: (NTFS on drive 0) * 1945.53 GB 33.58 GB free

d: (NTFS on drive 0) 53.69 GB 32.32 GB free

g: (NTFS on drive 2) 1000.20 GB 44.70 GB free

* Operating System is installed on c:
Note my internal drive is 2TB and described as drive 0 on the left. On the right it lists my logical drives, with C: and D: both being on drive 0.

Thanks for the help, info, and advice.

The C drive has 100 gb and the D drive - which I cannot access - has 189 gb.

This Asus 10.1 inch netbook-laptop was advertised as having 300 gb for the hard drive.

I have a passport WD of 1 tb back in the US.

I bought this computer because it is-was cheap and I would be traveling with it. If lost or damaged or stolen, then no big deal.

Again, it is advertised as having 300 gb of HD space.

Thanks and I will check out the link and operation you listed.

Thanks.

**blue** · 16-06-2013, 04:37 AM

to see the hard drive
type
disk management
into the start search box

it will show you the partition of the hard drive
yours should be system / c / d
the status should be healthy and the capacity shown

if you like you could delete the partition and then add the d capacity into the c

like this

**barbaro** · 16-06-2013, 10:29 PM

Thanks, blue.

Will follow your advice and info and report back.

Cheers.

**poorfalang** · 20-06-2013, 01:54 PM

Originally Posted by barbaro

2 separat hard drives for a total of 300 gb of space.

you serious? only? how much porn do you store on that?

**barbaro** · 27-06-2013, 12:42 AM

Originally Posted by poorfalang

Originally Posted by barbaro

2 separat hard drives for a total of 300 gb of space.

you serious? only? how much porn do you store on that?

No porn at all. (My porn is on my laptop at home and on my WD Passport at home).

I am currently working/travelling. This is why I have this cheap, light, and small Asus. If it gets stolen/damaged/ruined I won't lose sleep.

I download TV series and films to watch, and some language learning programs. That is it.

Thanks for the help.

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