Drive D

G

goose77

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.
 
C

Colin Barnhorst

When are you seeing this message? Please give some details on your system,
especailly the kind of optical drive that is D:.
 
R

RalfG

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.
 
N

nems

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

Colin Barnhorst

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

RalfG

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.
 
J

Jawade

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.

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.
 
R

RalfG

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.
 
J

Jawade

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.

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.
 
B

blondie89406

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

Mike Hall - MVP

blondie89406 said:
Question: If you do a backup on your system, then why can't the info in
the
D Drive be removed?


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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B

blondie89406

I see what you are saying but if you have the backup on a CD wouldn't that
solve the problem?
 
M

Mike Hall - MVP

blondie89406 said:
I see what you are saying but if you have the backup on a CD wouldn't that
solve the problem?


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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