Vista - D Drive

I have a Compaq Presario laptop
my C hard drive is 60gb with it half full
that is not problem
but my other drive
my D drive is 5gb and it only has 72.1mb left on it
does anybody know a way to get space back?
anybody know what I can do to stop it going down?
i defragment the computer every month
i delete shadow copies
i did consider compressing the folder
but i read somewhere that is a bad idea
what should I do to get the space back?

thankyou x

5gb is a very small drive, is you c: drive partitioned?

i don't know really
i never partitioned it myself
and i'm the only person who uses it
it came like that
a 60gb C drive and a 5gb D drive
i have way more space than I need on my C drive
and not enough on my D drive
how do I partition it so D drive has more space?

my D drive is where my recovery system is so I cant access it either

THe D partition on the computer is Called the Recovery Partition where you have the Back Up of the Operating System and all the Drivers along with the Prebundled applications of the computer. The Reason for minimizing the D partition is to avoid any writing on this Drive, YOu can delete the partition if you need. The Compaq Presario computer comed with a Recovery Disks Creator application create the Recovery Disks and delete the Partiton. It is recommended you leave the Recovery Partition untouched as this is a Back up for the computer.

Hi

DON"T TOUCH THAT PARTITION!!!

Even if you made the "Recovery Disks", they do NOT contain the OS image, they only provide access to the image stored on the D: drive!! You cannot "delete the partition" after you make the Recovery disks as "ferrisits" says or you will lose your OS recovery options forever!

The D: drive will not run out of space so there is no need to do anything there, the 5G is what's needed to store the OS image and any Compaq specific drivers and applications that come bundled with your computer, nothing is written to this drive EVER..so the space will not decrease anymore. But if you go mucking around with it, you'll most likely lose the ability to reinstall your OS, so please...just forget it's even there. (until you need it that is)

oh ok
thanks
I havn't touched it
I just wonderd because it keeps saying it's got low memory
it used to be all full of space
like 4gb of 5gb when I first got it
but in a year it's gone to 72.2mb of 5gb
so I was just abit worried about it

That is strange, that partition should not be growing at all.
The Vista image is just under 5G's and should take up most of that partition and that's why the 72MB's left over sounds just about perfect, but you say it used t show almost 4G's were free before???

Nothing should be accessing or writing to that partition, keep an eye on that 72MB's left and let us know if that changes at all. Maybe contact Compaq support also and see what they say about it.

wow thanks chappy
i'll be sur to notify if it goes down any more
at the moment it's 72.1mb of my 5gb

Alrighty then, Glad to have helped you out here!

Oh...wait..are you still getting Low Space messages on this?
And were the others Low Disk "Space" or Low "Memory", because if it's Low Memory messages you were getting, that's coming from your system resources and not the D: drive and either means you need more RAM or you need to boost your Virtual Memory settings.