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Memory problem with D Drive
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? -- VLS |
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Memory problem with D Drive
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. -- Paul "momof5" wrote: 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? -- VLS |
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Memory problem with D Drive
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! -- Dustin Harper http://www.vistarip.com | Vista Resource & Information Page Was this helpful? Then click the Ratings button. Voting helps the web interface. http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales...eAPostAsAnswer "momof5" wrote in message ... 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? -- VLS |
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Memory problem with D Drive
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** "Dustin Harper" wrote in message ... 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! -- Dustin Harper http://www.vistarip.com | Vista Resource & Information Page Was this helpful? Then click the Ratings button. Voting helps the web interface. http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales...eAPostAsAnswer "momof5" wrote in message ... 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? -- VLS |
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Memory problem with D Drive
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. "DL" address@invalid wrote in message ... 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** "Dustin Harper" wrote in message ... 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! -- Dustin Harper http://www.vistarip.com | Vista Resource & Information Page Was this helpful? Then click the Ratings button. Voting helps the web interface. http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales...eAPostAsAnswer "momof5" wrote in message ... 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? -- VLS |