Drive D

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:.

"goose77" <goose77@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F44DD93F-816E-43C5-978B-F0A13946579B@microsoft.com...
>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.

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.

"goose77" <goose77@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F44DD93F-816E-43C5-978B-F0A13946579B@microsoft.com...
>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.

I am getting the same message,,drive D (restore) is empty- no space
left...how do i fix this?

"RalfG" wrote:

> 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.
>
> "goose77" <goose77@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F44DD93F-816E-43C5-978B-F0A13946579B@microsoft.com...
> >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.
>

The restore files are probably hidden to prevent the user from changing
them.

"nems" <nems@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:14C46E9D-4832-41E2-AADE-BBC98405146B@microsoft.com...
>I am getting the same message,,drive D (restore) is empty- no space
> left...how do i fix this?
>
> "RalfG" wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> "goose77" <goose77@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:F44DD93F-816E-43C5-978B-F0A13946579B@microsoft.com...
>> >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.
>>

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.


"nems" <nems@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:14C46E9D-4832-41E2-AADE-BBC98405146B@microsoft.com...
>I am getting the same message,,drive D (restore) is empty- no space
> left...how do i fix this?
>
> "RalfG" wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> "goose77" <goose77@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:F44DD93F-816E-43C5-978B-F0A13946579B@microsoft.com...
>> >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.
>>

In article <F0507516-C8E2-451D-8A0C-5FB00D50CBAA@microsoft.com>, RalfG <itsnotme@ladeda.deda>
says...
> 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.

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.

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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.

"Jawade" <Henk_Jawade@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.2244f8f1459401d698982e@news.microsoft.com...
> In article <F0507516-C8E2-451D-8A0C-5FB00D50CBAA@microsoft.com>, RalfG
> <itsnotme@ladeda.deda>
> says...
>> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Met vriendelijke groeten, Jawade. Weer veel vernieuwd!
> http://jawade.nl/ Met een mirror op http://jawade.fortunecity.com/
> Bootmanager (+Vista +Linux), ClrMBR, DiskEdit (+Linux), POP3lezer,
> DOS-Filebrowser, Kalender, Webtellers en IP-log, USB-stick tester.

In article <2DBEACA9-264E-4019-9F16-489322931803@microsoft.com>, RalfG <itsnotme@ladeda.deda>
says...
> 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.

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.

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Question: If you do a backup on your system, then why can't the info in the
D Drive be removed?

"RalfG" wrote:

> 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.
>
> "goose77" <goose77@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F44DD93F-816E-43C5-978B-F0A13946579B@microsoft.com...
> >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.
>