"Cal Bear '66" wrote in message
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Your D drive is a Recovery partition set up at the factory to enable you
to restore your computer to a factory shipped condition. You should have
instructions to show you how to make Recovery DVDs from it, and then you
can delete the partition if you want and expand the C partition to take up
the space. You should not use this partition for anything.

You can get rid of the low space alert by deleting the drive letter in
Disc Management if you want. This will not harm the data.

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I Bleed Blue and Gold
GO BEARS!



However, deleting the drive letter will cause the recovery environment (Win
RE) to no longer have access to the partition. So if you don't have the
data copied to DVD(s) and something goes wrong and you need to do a system
recovery, you're stuck.

This is the very reason the drive is left visible, else the OEM would have
simply excluded a drive letter as they have for the other utility partitions
that are most likely present, but unavailable when the OS is running.

Mic