Can anyone tell me why my D Drive on my brand new computer is already completely full?

Question

I purchased an HP Pavilion media center computer 5 days ago and have done very little other than familiarize myself with the basics. But the last day or two, I keep getting a pop-up notice telling me I am running out of space on drive D (which to the best of my knowledge is my recovery drive) and that I need to free up additional space on it. It recommends that I empty my recylcling bin and each time it gives me the opportunity to do that, my recycling bin is already empty or has very little in it. My drive D was 89% full yesterday, and today its 99.7 % full and Im not sure what ive done, if anything, to cause this. Any advice is greatly appreciated!!!!! thank you.

Answer 1

did u format it before addin files in it?
Of course not...

Answer 2

D drive is usually one of three things:

1. Its either another Hard Drive installed on your computer
2. Its another partition of your c drive (to be explained)
3. Its your CD rom drive.

To explain:

1. Your computer could have two hard drives installed hence you would have C drive and a D drive.

Or

2. Did you know you can parition or split up your single hard drive into smaller hard drives. For example, if you have a 20 Gigabyte hard drive, you can split the hard drive into two 10 Gigabyte hard drives. Therefore you would have a C and a D drive.

Or

3. The D drive could also be your CD rom drive.

I would imagine the D drive is your cd rom drive. The easiest way to find out is to put a cd in the cd rom drive and double click the D drive. What happens? Do you see files from the cd or something else?

My personal note: if you see files, can you move them to C: (hard drive)?
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What Is A Partition?
As you can probably guess by breaking down the word partition, it's a 'part' or section of the hard disk, although that's a bit misleading because 'part' tends to indicate that a partition is less than 100% of the drive. Although a partition 'can' be less than 100% of the space available on a drive it doesn't have to be less. As a matter of fact a hard drive can exist perfectly well on a system without any partition(s) on it whatsoever; it just won't be of any value for accessing and storing data. I think it's a bit more accurate to look at partitions as defining a certain area or amount of space on a hard drive, be it 1 or 100% of the drives total capacity.

This is an excellent link and has much information on partitioning if you are interested.
Source: http://www.theeldergeek.com/hard_drives_01.htm

Answer 3

I just save the format stuff form my D drive onto 3 CD it tells you to do that in case your computer gets errors to reset it then i reformat ed my D drive and use it for extra space but i had no choice in doing that but it works like an extra drive which is good so i can put photos and what not. But i cant lose the 3 disk or I'm done for.

Answer 4

u can do disk clean up d/ drive see that helps but most hp pc's have recovery files install on d/drive if disk clean up dont work u can try disk defragmenter sort all files out put them back where they shud be. they shud free up some gig if dont work go www.windows.com or go in to start hp support

Answer 5

Take a look at the files on D: to get a clue what is being stored there that shouldn't be. Then you have the chance to change whatever is filling your drive

Answer 6

Impossible to know like this unless we see what is on it. Still it might bu just taking backup of everything from other drives.

What is a recovery drive???

Answer 7

Pl format the drive D at first.

Answer 8

recovery drive, then it could be that it is storing all you backup information there...When you are turning system restore on, your harddrive is partly used to aid in the recovery of those data...so, it could be that it is full because of that...just dont worry, unless it is a virus...try cleaning or securing your computer especially when you are connected to the Net...

Answer 9

To look inside your D drive, right click on the Start button. Left click on Explore. On the left pane locate your D drive and left click on it. On the pane to the right you will see the contents.