Satellite L350 - how to use free space on hard drive?

Hi
Wonder if anyone can help please?
We have a Toshiba Satallite L350 with 500gb of HD. Over the past few weeks the laptop has been getting very sluggish ( carried out de frag etc which helped ) however, today I tried to add something to my laptop and was told we have no spare disc space!!!
On looking at the computer it appears I have 2 drives ( C & D ) and the C drive is almost full yet the D drive is nearly empty!! No matter what I try I am unable to transfer anything over to the D drive so it is 'sat there' doing nothing!!! All that is showing on here is the HDD recovery from intiial setup. I never even realised that the 2 drives were there, asuming the 500gb will be used when you need it!
Can someone give me an idea on how / what I need to do to make use of this extra 250gb of HD and enable me to use the laptop to it's full potential?
Many thanks
Mark / Hereford / UK

Hi
First of all the second partition (D) contains the recovery files and this is needed to create a recovery disk and to recover the notebook using HDD recovery option.
But this should be explained in user manual.
However, I dont see any reason why you should not be able to move some files like mp3, videos, or pictures to the D partition. This should be possible.
Of course its not possible to move an installed programs if you have installed such program on C partition.
In such case you would need to uninstall such software and would need to install it again on D partition.
Nevertheless you could also increase the volume of C partition by shrinking the D partition and adding the free space to C.
To do that, you need some 3rd party partitions software.
I could recommend you usage of Gparted software. its freeware and can be downloaded from internet. Google for that.
Additionally you could clean the system to get rid of some temporal stored files.
CCleaner is a good freeware tool which cleans the system.

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