Re: Using Vista..freeing up d drive

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 03:16:01 -0700, SallyL
<SallyL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

kittridge1 wrote:

I have Vista and my D drive is almost full. I believe its because of
backups. I bought more Ram, deleted files and finally tryed to delete
all before my latest restore point. That didn't work. Didn't even
seem to run! I have 140 gig left on my hard drive and 470 mg on my
D..Please help!!!


Yes, 470 milligrams is very little. ;-)

Please help us to help you. What is your D drive? Is it a separate hard
drive? A partition of your only hard drive? Something else?

How big is it? What do you use it for? Do you run a program that puts
backups there?

What files did you delete? From what drive?

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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hi there..
it seems that everybody's D: drive is full but mine is C: drive. Wats wrong?


I have no idea, since you've omitted the essential information
describing your problem. See below.


my C: drive has only 10%-20% left


Exactly how big is your C: drive?


but my D: drive has about 80%


And exactly how big is your D: drive.


(used to be
90% but now 80% bcos i put some of the files like videos, music, documents
files to D: drive to free my C: drive) . i just want to know which is
actually a backup or restore drive?



Probably neither.


which one that windows always use alot?


Normally C:.


it seems to me is my C: drive. r there any problem? how to use D: drive more
to make my C: drive lesser? my notebook is NEC VersaA2200 AMD Turion 64
mobile technology.


It's very difficult to be sure of anything with so little information,
but I'll take a few guesses:

1. Your computer came with a single hard drive that was partitioned
into two pieces called C: and D:. Think of your drive as a two-drawer
filing cabinet.

2. Since 90% of D: was free, D: is probably not any kind of recovery
partition, but just a second place for you to store your files.

If the above is correct, then it's up to you to use D: instead of C:
for whatever you want. Just as with the filing cabinet, if you put
everything into the top drawer and leave the bottom one empty, you
will run into problems. You say you "put some of the files like
videos, music, documents files to D: drive to free my C: drive."
That's good. Continue doing more of the same.

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