hp recovery d drive

bgammon

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I would like to know can I formate my recovery d drive to clean it up it is full and can I start over with a new restore point and if I do formate d drive will it stop some programe from working or do any damage to c drive. I have never had any coarse in comptures and I am learning all the time about them and would appreciate any help. I have a vista home premium 32 bit Thank You
 

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Hi,
You can format the d drive but if you do that you will not be able to do a restore or recovery from the computer it self....
i would suggest if it is full purchase recovery cd's from hp & do recovery from that you will get the recovery manager back & the computer will work fine the recovery from the recovery cd's will take around 2 or 3 hrs >>
Try that any question in your Mind let me know
 

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hi,
you can delete the d drive it will not harm your C drive ...
but the d drive is your recovery drive & if you format that drive you wil not be able to install driver for all the hardware bcoz it is there in the recovery drive which is D Drive .....
 

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Unless you have created the Recovery CD's and/or ordered them as suggested you should leave it alone.

It's supposed to be full...or close to it and this does not affect performance.
 

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System One

  • CPU
    Intel Q6600
    Motherboard
    ASUS P5K MBoard.
    Memory
    4G OCZ PC2 8500 Platinum
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA 8800GTS Vid Card
    Hard Drives
    500G Seagate SATA
    200G Seagate SATA
    100G WD Caviar SATA
    80G WD Caviar IDE
    PSU
    OCZ Elite 800W PSU
    Case
    RaidMax Smilodon Case
    Other Info
    Lite-On dual layer DVD burner X 2
    Dos 6.2;Win2K;XP; &
    Vista Ultimate 64Bit.
DO NOT TOUCH it - that's the best advice I can give you. Before you start tampering with a system partition, I suggest you study the problem a little more. The reason it got full is probably from you doing file backups without changing the default drive (which happens to be the D drive). If that is not it, tell us the amount of freespace that is left (anything over 10% is good and stays blue) and what files you see on it (best is you post a snip with D: open).
 

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System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell
    CPU
    Q6600
    Memory
    4GB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HP w2207h
    Hard Drives
    2x250GB HDDs
    1x60GB OCZ SSD
    6 external disks 60 to 640GBs
    Other Info
    Also 1xHP desktop, 1xHP laptop, 1xGateway laptop
Thanks for all the info I did get one reply that help me out my d drive was allways in the red and it gave me a step by step on which fills to take out. I could not make a back up but now I can because I was able to find out which fills I did not need in d drive again thank for all the help
 

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When D is red, it usually has one ot two reasons.
1. as I said earlier, file backup has written files on it because D is the default for that. You always have to pick another drive (but not C) for file backup.
2. system restore is enabled for that drive and restore points (shadows) are written to it. In that case you have to disable system restore for that drive.
When it turns red (any drive) it means that there is less than 10% free space.
 

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System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell
    CPU
    Q6600
    Memory
    4GB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HP w2207h
    Hard Drives
    2x250GB HDDs
    1x60GB OCZ SSD
    6 external disks 60 to 640GBs
    Other Info
    Also 1xHP desktop, 1xHP laptop, 1xGateway laptop
Thank for all the help i did get a reply from christopher on vista general and when i click on it there was a link that was for low disk space and it told me what to do and which fill that I did not need in d drive. Now i have my d drive back with a little more space and can do back ups now Thank you all
 

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