I reinstalled the operating system of my computer last night 9/12/06 , Everything is running back to norm now only thing is.... I have something that wasn't there before restore.... I have a drive c and a drive H the drive h says RECOVERY (H) .
my desktop toolbar annouces every now and again that my local drive is running out of space on Drive (H) .. THis drive H wasn't not there when I bought comp and never gave me any problems because it wasn't on there.. but now everytime I restart comp it tells me drive H is full and needs more space, so when I click it it takes me to disk clean up... I do not know what Drive (h) or Recovery(h) is and do not know how to fix it to get it off my comp, or make it not show up and say that.. any suggestions and can you tell me the importance of this drive is it also says something like in the Genral discrip. once clicking on propeties that it is FAT32 or something.. what should I do, I have a gateway comp, The icon shows as a comp chip .
2006-09-13 05:19:48 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
It sounds like an issue with the restore disk or procedure, but I can't give you any more help or information without knowing what type of system you have and which model you have.
I would suggest visiting the Gateway website and going to the support area and looking up your particular computer to see if there is any information there. You could also pull out the documentation that came with your computer and see what it says about running the restore CD.
I don't have any personal experience with the Gateway systems, but I do have experience with doing restores on a number of other brands and usually it's pretty straight forward. Usually, you are either doing a complete restore and sometimes you are given an opportunity to do a repair.
2006-09-13 05:40:58 · answer #1 · answered by JSalakar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds as though you did not format the hard drive before reinstalling the OS. The new OS made a new partition on your hard drive and labeled it "H". This is most likely the old system that has been saved(recovery). Make a boot disk from the OS installation disk,boot from that,partition hard drive,then reload OS again! Sorry :-(=
2006-09-13 12:28:35 · answer #2 · answered by Jcontrols 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right Click My Computer > Manage > Under Storage, Click Disk Management
2006-09-13 12:23:54 · answer #3 · answered by GirlUdontKnow 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋