when do I change/buy a new hard-disk? 600GB Free, How Do I Use Them?

[alzuhairfayez]

We have a family computer that has 2 tb of harddisk storage

When we first bought it we told the guy to make 3 users with different storage so he split the hardisk into 4 parts, 3 equally sized parts for each user and one empty part with 600 gbs of free storage. I want to make a new user with the 600 gb disk as my main hard drive. How do I do that. i just want my games, files, pics, programs and so on to be stored there. Help would be apreciated

(ps: How often do i need to change my hard disk because its well over 7 years old and I heard that memory loss might occur, when should i change it?)

The hardisk parts are names disc a, disc b, disc cc, and disc d

 

[kanewolf]

First, anything that you are concerned about losing, should have backups somewhere. A single version of ANY important file is just asking for data loss.

 

[alzuhairfayez]

First, anything that you are concerned about losing, should have backups somewhere. A single version of ANY important file is just asking for data loss.

is it ok if u answer my second question?..

 

[xPhaze]

There are several ways to "split" a drive up and I'm not sure what way he did that. Need to understand that before you are able to be helped. Can user-A access all four partitions? Or is user-A only limited to accessing "disc a"?

 

[arnabdas]

I guess you can use disk management to allocate a unused portion to a newly created user account. After 7 years your drives main problem will be slow speed compared to the new ones, as for loss of memory fixing disk fragmentation will solve it for now unless any serious issues like relocated sector count error appears (you can use a software avg pc tuneup to help with your disk fragmentation problem,its got a trial version so u should be ok). Backing up your important files and documents is always a good idea.