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    D drive on dell; Anyone Please Help!!!

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by lscheihi, Jan 27, 2009.

  1. lscheihi

    lscheihi Newbie

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    I recently received an error message on my computer stating that I could no longer back up, my d drive was full.
    I went to disk clean up, and deleted everything I was not using, it did not free up any extra space, and I also did everything I was told to do to free up space, nothing helped.
    I am confused, if this is just a back-up drive, and my c drive is not even halfway full, why is my so called back up drive full? And I have no idea how to access the restore points to see if I have more than one back-up, causing the d drive to fill up.
    Please help! Everything I have read tells me that when the D drive fills up, the next step is that your system crashes; I have even read theat Dell Reps do not even know how to fill. :eek:
    I have a Dell Laptop Inspiron E1705, running windows vista!
     
    lscheihi, Jan 27, 2009
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  2. atbnet

    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    Your D drive as default should only contain your factory restore partition. You should look at running CCleaner on your system.
     
    atbnet, Jan 27, 2009
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  3. JTOverath

    JTOverath Notebook Evangelist

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    Actually usually the D drive is the optical drive isn't it?
     
    JTOverath, Jan 28, 2009
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    By default from the factory Dell uses the D: drive for the restore partition.
     
    atbnet, Jan 28, 2009
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  5. Nankuru

    Nankuru Notebook Evangelist

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    How and what were you trying to back up at the time? And is your D drive full?

    It sounds as if you back up to a DVD or external hard drive and somehow the destination drive has been changed to D.

    Very unlikely.
     
    Nankuru, Jan 28, 2009
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