D Drive full.

Hello. I've recently been getting this problem of my DATA (D:) being nearly full, even if I never placed anything inside it. Is there any way to clear whatever unneeded stuff inside?

Usually Windows uses the C: Drive for everything. And I believe D Drive is your Recovery Drive...Do you mean like This?links at the bottom of the page will tell you what you need to do to fix this.

Ah. thats it. Thanks.

yea i wouldnt touch that drive unless you know what you're doin. they're usually only 10-15gb anyway, if you delete the contents you'll have to download all the drivers/files contained in it again if anything goes wrong with your pc

No he wont.The recovery discs your "supposed" to make will reinstall the recovery partition if he needs to in the future.

Replying to #5

the recent systems I've seen you either have to make them from the recovery partition, or its disk2disk recovery, in which case if you delete the partition you are indeed screwed.

if the message bothers you that bad you can always unhook the drive and edit your boot options(not startup options) to not boot the drive. i wouldnt waste your time doing it though, since(not to be rude) you have little knowledge of PCs in general and its not hindering anything you do plus you might need it if you get a nasty virus.. i know there's alot of people on the internet that find them useless and usually format them.. most of the people that do that screw themselves or had old HP computers that the recovery drive was useless anyway

Loonylion · #6the recent systems I've seen you either have to make them from the recovery partition, or its disk2disk recovery, in which case if you delete the partition you are indeed screwed.

Well the ones Ive seen recently doesnt allow you to delete the partition,only the stuff on it-leaving it unallocated space til something else is put on it.

if the space is unallocated then you have deleted the partition.if its just an empty D: drive then you havent. Regardless, its always possible to delete the partition, but sometimes it might take more than the windows built in disk manager.

I believe I have deleted that partition on my Hard Disk. To be honest I knew that it would delete it and I don't mind, I would prefer the extra space that I will most likely never use on my 37.2gb HardDisk.

Loonylion · #9if the space is unallocated then you have deleted the partition.if its just an empty D: drive then you havent. Regardless, its always possible to delete the partition, but sometimes it might take more than the windows built in disk manager.

I cant remember exactly as I gave the Laptop away.But it was "unallocated" space when the recovery files were deleted,and that space was subtracted off the capacity of the drive.The recovery partition is a waste of time compared to the w7 backup/recovery utility-as that has up to date drivers etc.......

I know it's probably already resolved, but I want to post a screenshot of it.

Stanley,youd be better posting a picture of the disk managemnent screen.Youve got at least 440gb of stuff in your d drive that can be deleted.It looks like your telling Windows to save files in that drive instead of the c drive.What OS are you using.
Whats taking up so much space-is it movies etc.
Have you done backups etc in case of disaster.I dont know your setup,but if your d drive is films etc,I would either burn them off or buy an external drive-and I would make sure I have everything backed up just in case.I forgot to mention you have to take into consideration how much extra time virus/malware scans take with 700gb of stuff on you machine......

theres no way a recovery partition is 458gb, theres something else on there.
mine was only a few Gb's, i deleted it along with vista and reinstalled xp and win 7

I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium, and what is disc management?

Disk management is a software provided in windows, it is found under Administrative Programs which should be in your control panel or start menu.

Stanley Richards · #15I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium, and what is disc management?

It was to see if youve got a recovery partition-which I dont think you have.But you should get rid of all the crap on your drives and burn off a w7 recovery dvd and make a backup on an external drive.

I would disable recovery. You can return from any serious windows error if you know what you're doing. The seful thing would be storing your important files into other hd or even on a nas or external hd.

I would just delete it.
You can normally use your Windows 7 disc to recover Windows if anything happened.

I use the D drive for videos. :)