Drive D

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I am being told that Drive D is full. What is Drive D? I do not have
anything in the CD/ROM drawer. My trash can is empty. Thanks for any help.
 
When are you seeing this message? Please give some details on your system,
especailly the kind of optical drive that is D:.
 
Often with OEM computers Drive D: is a partition on your boot drive that
contains only your System Recovery files. It's not meant to be used by you
for anything other than reinstalling the OS and/or software. Altering the
contents or structure can leave you without any way to recover the operating
system or programs that came bundled with the PC.
 
I am getting the same message,,drive D (restore) is empty- no space
left...how do i fix this?
 
You don't need to do anything, there's nothing to fix. The contents are
hidden so that you don't accidentally change or delete anything.
 
RalfG <[email protected]> said:
You don't need to do anything, there's nothing to fix. The contents are
hidden so that you don't accidentally change or delete anything.
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Still there is something wrong. A hidden drive is invisible and have
no driveletter. I think it is an visible partition who is almost
full.
 
You're looking for problems where there aren't any. They don't always hide
the drive, only the contents. Only a non-Windows drive/partition wouldn't
have a drive letter. Of course it is almost full, there's no point making a
partition bigger than necessary to hold the recovery data.
 
RalfG <[email protected]> said:
You're looking for problems where there aren't any. They don't always hide
the drive, only the contents. Only a non-Windows drive/partition wouldn't
have a drive letter. Of course it is almost full, there's no point making a
partition bigger than necessary to hold the recovery data.
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If it's really a recovery-partition, the message will stay away if
he hide the partition. It's a bad idea keep the recoverypartition
unhide. To hide the partition, add 0x10 at the type-byte.
 
Question: If you do a backup on your system, then why can't the info in the
D Drive be removed?
 
blondie89406 said:
Question: If you do a backup on your system, then why can't the info in
the
D Drive be removed?
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Theoretically, it can. The trouble is that there is not enough space on D to
create your own backup without deleting the OEM recovery part first.

If your backup does not work for any reason, you then have no way to get
back a working system.

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I see what you are saying but if you have the backup on a CD wouldn't that
solve the problem?
 
blondie89406 said:
I see what you are saying but if you have the backup on a CD wouldn't that
solve the problem?
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As long as the backup works, maybe. If you want to do decent backups, either
get a 'One Touch' Backup drive or an external USB housing and drive plus
Acronis TrueImage.

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