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D: Drive full
I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 With Vista Home Premium, factory installed.
Right now my C: drive shows 16.7 GB free of 62.4 GB
The D: drive shows 1.16 MB free of 9.99 GB
Every day when I start up I get a popup message that my D: drive is full. Clicking on this message leads me to a page where I can delete certain items from the drive, but the only thing it shows to delete is related to Office setup with 0 (zero) MB saved.
As you can see, the D: drive is taking up a significant portion of the drive. I can't find any documentation about the D: drive but it does seem from what little I can find that most are far smaller in size than mine.
What's in the D: drive that can be deleted?
How do I delete those items?
How do I reduce the size of the D: drive and lock the size? And eliminate the popup message?
Apparently, over time, things are added to the drive. How do I manage what's going in there?
If I have recovery disks, do I really even need the D: drive?
Can it be deleted entirely, or reduced to some KB size?
I hope someone can help me with this, keeping in mind that I'm not particularly technically proficient (it took me 12 (twelve) tries just to sign up with this forum) although I can follow directions. Abbreviations and acronyms confuse me.
mnl1121
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April 17th, 2008 02:00
dont touch your D: drive. Thats your computer recovery partition.
I suggest calling DELL to see what they say about how to get rid of that prompt saying that drive D is full.
DeathRider
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April 19th, 2008 16:00
When I click on D:, I have the following:
D:\Dell\Image\Factory.wim (6GB file)
D:\Program Files\ (6.63MB)
D:\ProgramData\ (0 bytes)
D:\sources (993 KB)
D:\Tools (1.52MB)
D:\Users (0 bytes)
D:\Windows\ (34.1MB)
Mine has 3.2GB free.
Technically, as long as you have a Operating System Disk and a Applications/Drivers disk , you can delete the recovery partition. The recovery partition just makes it easier to return your computer to the way it was originally.
I know many who have Dell computers delete this partition and recover the hard drive space.
M37B1
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April 21st, 2008 03:00
I haven't been saving anything myself. Apparently the Inspiron is doing it itself.
My D: shows
D:/dell 3.88GB
D:/N360_BACKUP 5.55GB
D:/Program Files 6.63MB
D:/Sources 993KB
D:/Tools 1.52MB
D:/Users 262KB
D:/Windows 786MB
I didn't create any of these files.
Now that I think about it, it appears that the N360_BACKUP folder was created by Norton. I'm also guessing that maybe I can delete that folder as it likely contains duplicate info. If I do that, is there a way that I can reduce the maximum size of D: to 5GB or so? I getting nervous about the available space on my C: drive.
DeathRider
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April 21st, 2008 09:00
Dellhen
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August 28th, 2018 08:00
Interesting. I have the same error that D Drive is full yet I am not saving anything there. Dell says it's (Inspiron 5477) out of warranty but they can fix it with a 1 year $239 warranty. Really?
When I list what is on the drive is says 0 data used, even with show me hidden files.
10 years later from this originial post....anyone have an answer? Thanks!