Memory problem with D Drive

[momof5]

My D Drive shows that 0% memory available. Calling a recovery D Drive? 173
mb of 9.99 GB available. Tried disk clean up, defrag. no help. What now?

 

[PaulB]

If your D: drive is your recovery partition (drive) then it should not be
used for anything but storing the recovery data and that is why it is so
full. It has just enough space on it to hold the required recovery
information.

 

[Dustin Harper]

That is correct. Your D: drive (Recovery drive) is designed for when your C:
drive goes down, you have a way to reinstall Vista using the D: drive.
Rather than give you a CD, they do this. It's just a spare partition made
for that. You don't want to use it for anything, like storing files or
anything. It doesn't need any maintenance or cleanup. Just leave it as it
is. You may never need it, but if you do, you'll be glad you didn't touch
it! Plus, it's only 10 GB, which isn't very much at all in the grand scheme
of things!

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[DL]

As its simply a partition of a singel drive, when that drive goes bang so
does the recovery partition.

If the PC wasnt supplied with recovery cd's there are usually instructions
on how to create the recovery cd/dvd's from the recovery partition. - **You
need to do this**

 

[Chuck]

If that isn't bad enough, the "brick" image of the installed software is
usually so obsolete that it's a really last resort to use. A bootable CD
might be a better choice.
The safest thing to do is to generate a CD containing the OEM drivers
(really absolutely necessary for a laptop)
And, have a CD set containing the OPS system updated image, along with any
absolutely necessary apps.