D drive almost full...don't know how to fix this

[antes98]

Hey all! My D drive is at 1.14 GB free of 12.47 GB. I think this is due to backups for restore taking up space. But I can't remember how to change this. This is probably a dumb question but I just draw a blank when I try to figure out how to fix it.

Thanks in advance for help and I greatly appreciate it!

Christy

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Christy I would leave it alone and use as a restore area.
Use your main hard drive to play with. IMHO

 

[Dinesh]

Try deleting any old backup from the D Drive. It should free up some space. Also, run disk cleanup and it will try to free some more disk space.

 

[antes98]

If it won't cause problems then this "fix" is easy! I don't use D for anything..I just noticed it when I was looking for a file.

 

[antes98]

I ran disk cleanup earlier and the only thing it gave me to clean was 0 Mb in Recycle Bin. So in other words, there was nothing to clean.

I can't remember how to "Try deleting any old backup from the D Drive."



Thanks!

 

[Dinesh]

Simply select the backup you wish to delete and press Shift+Delete button on your keyboard.

 

[TVeblen]

Is this a laptop?
Is the D: drive the Laptop's recovery partition? Or one you created?

 

[antes98]

TVeblen-

This is not a laptop. It's a HP TouchSmart 300. I believe D is the Recovery. It actually says: FACTORY_IMAGE (D

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Go back and read Post #2 and leave it alone! IMHO

 

[antes98]

Howling..I haven't done anything to it. Just responding to posts.

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Howling..I haven't done anything to it. Just responding to posts.

I know you haven't done anything to it nor do I want you to do anything with it.
I have the same situation on my desk top and I don't mess with it. I even forget it exists.

By the way.....Welcome to 7 Forums and enjoy all the tutorials that are you to review!

 

[TVeblen]

Then I second The Wolves. Leave it alone.

You can burn a set of recovery disks with most systems. The recovery disks do the same thing as the recovery partition. Then you could look into deleting the partition and extending the C: drive into it. But be sure to read up on doing this and decide if that's a good option for you before you do anything.

 

[Dinesh]

Coming back to the topic, if its a recovery partition then find a file called media.bin and delete it.

 

[plondon]

Interesting- I'm having exact same issue with D drive. I've never put any files there but it's almost full now and I've only had this HP since April.

What happens when it's full...?? Will I have trouble using my computer..?

Anyway..I deleted all but most recent restore point, cleaned all old files, ran the crap cleaner and de fragmented it and still no additional memory there in D drive.

Should I even be worrying about this..?

Thanks for the help