This is what I should have done with the last program I installed which was about 13 or 14 GB. Thanks for pointing this out. I may even uninstall it and reinstall on D drive. For some reason it never occurred to me that I could I could change the path during install to the other drive.

Jim

On 2021-03-28 2:38 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
| From: Jim Ruxton via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
| 
| Thanks guys for the tips on Gparted. I had  already gone ahead with using
| links. I'm not much of a Windows person so get nervous moving stuff around in
| there. I discovered that I couldn't move the folder (Program Files) to a drive
| other than the one that Windows was on. Super frustrating. Anyway I freed up
| enough space moving a couple other folders.  I just wasn't sure if Gparted
| could join 2 different physical drives to make it look like 1. Unfortunate
| there is a couple of programs that I need to use Windows for. Thanks again for
| all the help.

The first answer in this Stack Exchange item looks useful.

<https://superuser.com/questions/512217/can-i-install-all-my-applications-on-d-drive>

In particular, when you install most applications, you can specify
where they should be loaded.

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