Installation of Vista on another drive? is it possible?

I hope i ask this question right. I have a Lenovo 3000 Y 410 laptop that came to me in two partitions. c drive 29.8 GB d drive 105.6 GB. It has a one touch recovery key that supposed to recover my system if i want to recover c drive to factory settings where an invisible partition on c drive is where it is located.

my problem is that my c drive gets so full after installing the vista and the drivers. I only have about 7 gb left and then barely any after vista completes its updates which seem to make my system crash on me. my d drive is nearly empty!

when i use the recovery button it advises me not to change the c drive partition to larger or small or my recovery button will no longer work.

i was sent OEM recovery disks cause my button seemed to not work anymore and when i used those to install the program it asked me if i wanted to install it on c drive ( primary) or d drive (logical) . my question is what happens if i install in on the d drive? what happens to my c drive? will the windows os be deleted from there? will i still be able to use my recovery button?

my recovery button works now after i have freshly installed using the disks that were sent, but i feel that my c drive will still get full and i'll have the same problem with the crashing business.. i install all programs that i add on to the d drive and i save all my data on the d drive. i dont know what else loads on the c drive except for the updates (i'm assuming) for vista.

thank you


Fewee

There's no problem installing Windows on the D drive. If you would like to install it on C anyway (as I would prefer, just for the sake of conformity), you may use Windows' disk management tool to delete the D drive (this will erase all the data on it too, don't do this if the recovery stuff are on D) or shrink it and then expand the C drive over the newly freed up space (I give my Vista 45 GB).

thanks for the reply, however.. if i delete drive d... that means my whole drive becomes one right? total of about 140 gb? doesnt that change the size of drive c and disable my recovery button? thats' what it told me that if i change the size of the c drive then i will not be able to recover with the hidden partition.

i have newly installed it back on c drive to see what happens and now it tells me i have 0 bytes left on my c drive and that i needed to free up some space..

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Fewee

VaguelyRapt said:

There's no problem installing Windows on the D drive. If you would like to install it on C anyway (as I would prefer, just for the sake of conformity), you may use Windows' disk management tool to delete the D drive (this will erase all the data on it too, don't do this if the recovery stuff are on D) or shrink it and then expand the C drive over the newly freed up space (I give my Vista 45 GB).

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Hi beaboo1974

Have a look at these tutorials:

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/95398-disk-management-shrink-partition.html?ltr=D