RAID0 is risky. If you lose one of the pair, you lose everything. With RAID1, if one drive fails, you can still recover everything from the other drive.
if D: is 189 GB, that's likely the PC Restore partition which resets the hard drive to exactly the way Dell shipped it, including Windows, drivers, and any software they installed (but NOT your personal files or software you installed).
Don't mess with D: Any changes to D: may prevent the PC Restore image from resetting the drive to factory state.
How many hard drives in this system? Are they in a RAID setup?
DATAPART1(D:) is probably the D: partition on a hard drive.
Somebody else may know exactly what's on that partition, but depending on its size, it could be Dell's hardware diagnostics partition or the PC Restore partition.
The files and folders are most likely hidden and only looks empty. The first thing with new toy is read Dells instructions and make your recovery disk.
The way Dell configured by pc, drive c is 212 gb and my d drive (datapart1) is 1.8 tb. I am constantly finding it difficult to make room on drive c and drive d sits there is very little on it. If drive d is just a partition, is there some way to change the size of that partition without losing the ability to restore to factory condition?
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September 27th, 2011 18:00
Two physical hard drives?
RAID0 is risky. If you lose one of the pair, you lose everything. With RAID1, if one drive fails, you can still recover everything from the other drive.
if D: is 189 GB, that's likely the PC Restore partition which resets the hard drive to exactly the way Dell shipped it, including Windows, drivers, and any software they installed (but NOT your personal files or software you installed).
Don't mess with D: Any changes to D: may prevent the PC Restore image from resetting the drive to factory state.
Have fun with the new toy!
Ron
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Ron Thank you for looking at my question. I think there are 2 1 tg drives that have been turned by RAID0 into a C drive.
The c drive is 1.62TB the D drive is 189GB.
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How many hard drives in this system? Are they in a RAID setup?
DATAPART1(D:) is probably the D: partition on a hard drive.
Somebody else may know exactly what's on that partition, but depending on its size, it could be Dell's hardware diagnostics partition or the PC Restore partition.
Ron
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September 28th, 2011 06:00
Raid 5 isn't a whole lot better. If you lose 2 drives you are toast.
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September 29th, 2011 06:00
Thanks the drive is empty but 189gb is small by todays standards so i will ignore it.
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The files and folders are most likely hidden and only looks empty. The first thing with new toy is read Dells instructions and make your recovery disk.
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September 29th, 2011 16:00
You are right there are hidden files(I have just looked). I have made the recovery disk, set up backup, and read most of the instructions.
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September 29th, 2011 16:00
Now read the rest of them...!! :emotion-4:
Have fun.
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The way Dell configured by pc, drive c is 212 gb and my d drive (datapart1) is 1.8 tb. I am constantly finding it difficult to make room on drive c and drive d sits there is very little on it. If drive d is just a partition, is there some way to change the size of that partition without losing the ability to restore to factory condition?