I bought a new HP notebook yesterday and when I turned it on it says my D drive is full...is that bad?

Question

on the D drive is says warning and recovery was done December 2006. that's weird I just bought my laptop yesterday from best buy. what should I do?

Answer 1

Not to worry as that partition is used for the operating system only, that's why it says its full.

Right click on your C drive, click properties, there you will see all your available free space.

Answer 2

Most HP notebooks have the hard drive partitioned so it shows up with 2 hard drives in 'My Computer'.
The first is C drive, which is the one you use.
The second is the partitioned drive.

On the notebooks that don't come with any windows cd's or recovery disks, the second drive is what its all stored on. Instead of inserting a recovery disk you tap a certain key on startup and it accesses that second drive for pc recovery.

DO NOT FORMAT THAT DRIVE

I work for a HP reseller and my role is to sell refurbished machines. My advice is to create a recovery disk and do not touch the second hard drive. Its there for a reason.

Answer 3

WIERD
do this
type in disk clean up
then choose D

SEARCH

go start on blue bar (task bar)
choose search or find
then choose all files and folders
type in word you are looking for
when you see these icons
double click on them until you find what you are looking for
so you dont have to do this again
go back to same icon
right click
choose create short cut on desk top
close all windows
a new icon will be on your desk to
click to open

Answer 4

Sound like you have a used notebook, its not uncommon for shops to resale customer returned notebook without throughly cleaning them.

Answer 5

Well was the laptop new? It might have been refurbished.

Answer 6

Sounds like you got a second hand one... unless drive D: is your CD-ROM.