I don't know how to remove things to give me more space. It says it can't defrag D until I take some things off of the hard drive, but I don't have that much on. I recently bought the computer and HP has a lot of junk on it, but I'm afraid to delete. I am illerate enough that I may delete something that I really need. Help, please.
2006-11-12 11:33:18 · 7 answers · asked by dutchlady 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
New HP with XP OEM has a D drive, this is your Windows Installation and Backup. C: is Primary Partition with OS files on it and stuff you download and install or just use. D: is the common Recovery Drive, you will see at Boot Boot? Restore? that restore is D:, it is why new PCs do not come with a physical Install Disk of Windows. Its a kinda neato idea, I am trashing XP for Linux, but still playing with winders now. I will leave D: on the partition just in case of a critical failure.
But that is the way Windows tells them to do it now, if you dont ask for an Install Disk, you dont get one, and you actually dont need one because that is Drive D:.
2006-11-12 11:48:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The easiest way to free up space and make sure you do not mess anything up in your system is to use add/remove programs. Go to your control panel and double click the icon called "Add/Remove Programs" It will bring up another window with a list of all the programs on your computer, any programs that you do not use, or would never need, uninstall, that will free up some disc space. Another good way is to run Disc Cleanup. To get to that program click the start button, go to All programs, Accessories, System Tools, and in that pop out list there will be a program called Disk Cleanup If that does not give you enough space you will have to delete data files that you have put on the computer to free up space. Be sure to empty your recycle bin by right clicking it and clicking the Empty Recycle Bin option from the list to delete all the information you have uninstalled and gotten rid of. Hope this helps
2006-11-12 11:38:07 · answer #2 · answered by Tech 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what D drive is. It might just be some backup stuff HP put on a second partition, and they only made it as big as they had to.
Don't worry so much. Go to add/remove programs and take out some of that junk HP loves to garbage up computers with.
2006-11-12 11:38:34 · answer #3 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you bought this PC from another person, try looking at Remove/Add Programs to see if there is something you don't need. If you bought it directly from HP, then it's weird that you would only have 5% left. How many GB does your hard drive have?
2006-11-12 11:38:02 · answer #4 · answered by Chea 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you don;t want to delete, then move.
You must have two disks or one which is formatted to think it is two. Open the D drive with the "Windows Explorer" and look for files or photos that you have on there. Move then to C drive if you can.
2006-11-12 11:41:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
with hp, this is usually a backup partition and you shouldn't mess with it.....if it bothers you a lot, you can resize the partition and then defragment..let me know if you want to do this and ill walk you thru it
2006-11-12 11:37:20 · answer #6 · answered by joshcornelison 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
use ccleaner.com it will remove all unwanted junk.
2006-11-12 11:36:49 · answer #7 · answered by midnight star 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋