Partition Adjustments

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  1. Posts : 3
    windows 7 home 64bit
       #11

    I would like to shrink or remove the "D" but I'm not sure if the files that are on it are necessary to operation or not.
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  2. Posts : 13,576
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #12

    Your page file will just revert to C if you delete the D partition, I have no idea what all those other files are.

    Just put them in a folder and put them on c, at least you`ll have them, whatever they are.
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  3. Posts : 5,656
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
       #13

    Possibly remnants of previous Windows Updates.

    Folders with long random words and letters [Solved] - Hard Drives - Storage

    They are the MD5 and/or SHA1 of the Windows Updates.
    - This makes look-up faster and far more reliable as two different patches with the same name will not have the same hash/HMAC values.
    - https://www.google.com.au/search?q=md5+sha1

    If they are over 72 hours old, and you have restarted since they can be safely deleted.
    The Disk Clean-up Wizard generally ignores these folders.


    32 hexadecimal characters (numbers, including A-F) gives 2^128 values; which is quite a lot.

    Windows Updates stores files in a certain place, they then usually get extracted to the volume with the most free space prior to installation.
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  4. Posts : 3
    windows 7 home 64bit
       #14

    So, what is the "Logical Drive"? That is what is says that the drive is.
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  5. Posts : 12,012
    Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
       #15

    tricatz said:
    So, what is the "Logical Drive"? That is what is says that the drive is.
    Think of it as a container represented by that green border, inside of which is that D partition.
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