Category: Geeks r Us
Hello,
My computer keeps on saying low disc space on drive d. I think because this is because it tries to back up. I've tried deleeting everything on the drive and it stills comes up with that message? Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
What kind of computer is it? I know with dels for example it starts yelling about disk space long before you really need to worry.
Y drive D though? On mine, drive D is a recovery partition, drive C is what it should be looking at.
My computer is an hp.
I'm not sure why it looks at drive d
oh wow. Uhm, in that case I have no utter idea. Usually they make it so you can't even see recovery partitions.
I wonder if theirs a way u can change where it checks? My laptop has a recovery drive that I can see, but disk cleanup will ask me what drive I wanna clean when I run it.
in the first place, why would it back up on to that drive anyway?
Because drive D is usually a recovery partition. If something were to happen to drive C, it relies on drive D to back up the files, so that it can restore as much as possible.
Correction on these posts
Drive D is usually recovery partition. It does not do backups to a recovery partition. A recovery partition is there in case one needs to format then it recopies files from the rescue partition. However, why drive D, which should be your rescue partition is running low I'm unsure, unless Drive D is marked as Local disk D in my computer and is actually your windows install partition, and not your recovery. Second of all, which o/s are we using here. Second of all how old is the computer, and third of all how big is the hard drive. ON my 1 year old laptop, the recovery partition was marked as Recovery D. So, you can find this out by simply going into my computer.
As far as the original question goes, Use CCleaner for disk cleaner, select all check boxes in the tree view and then click start cleaning.
I'm running vista and the computer is about a year old. As you know, vista doesn't have a my computer on it. It uses something weird called omax. Vista has a weird setup in my oppinon.
oh yeah I forgot. The computer is an hp
As for the recovery, the drive should be D for recovery. You can't access it unless you boot from it, which on compaq/hp shold be f1 or f2 maybe f10 or f11
I just wasted 10 minutes out of my day and you go and tell me it is vista? That should answer 90% of your questions. the other 10% is whatever busy-ware you install on top of that like klango, windows live, bloatware like that
well, you asked, so you were told