I have an Aspire 5315 laptop. i have almost filled the C hard drive and have been alerted to not having enough room left. I have since realised that I have D hard drive that is empty, how do I use this part

The assume that right now you have full access with your drive d. If not, there is a need to format the D first, selecting and right click it from the explorer, then select Format. Now, if you have full access to drive d, one technique is to copy all your archive (old files, installer, games, etc) to drive D to free some space from drive C. In other cases, during creation of documents (MS Word for example), you may opt to select My Computer, then drive D, the folder (of there is one) before you click on Save or OK.
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TedMac

Hi,
You have an option to transfer the free space from drive d: to drive c: and you can do it by using Disk Management under the Computer Management console:

to go to disk management:
Go to Control panel > click on Administrative Tools > Click on Computer Management > On the left you'll see disk management > Right click on drive D: click on shrink volume: > and you'll be asked what is the size pf space you want to transfer from d: to c: > after that click on shrink > after that an unallocated space will appear > right click on for you to make a primary drive > then after that right click on c: to extend the drive with the space you removed from d: > you should be able to get additional spcae now.

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