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04-12-2009, 03:58 PM
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newbie to partitions ??
Hey,
I'm not used to partitions, so I need some advice. I've been helping my Dad work on cleaning up his pc. It is a Dell and it has a C drive of which only 1/4 is used. He also has a D drive which is saying is 100% full. I attempted to run a disk cleanup on both. It ran as it should on C, but when analyzing D, said 0 space could be gained. Is this normal? It doesn't seem right to me that any drive should be 100% full. If someone could educate me on this, I would surely appreciate it. Thanks |
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04-12-2009, 04:11 PM
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The D drive is probably the recovery partition, leave it alone. Dells ship with 3 or 4 partitions.
To confirm, what does Disk Management say about each partition? |
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04-12-2009, 05:38 PM
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In the disk management there are 3 drives listed. The first has no letter assigned it is file system FAT,Healthy, EISA config 31mb. Second is C, NTFS, Healthy (system) 71.44gb 73% free. Third is D, FAT32, Healthy, 3.02gb, 0% free.
Does this seem correct? Thanks for your help. |
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04-13-2009, 01:33 AM
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Yep. The first partition is the utility/diagnostic partition. The second one is obviously your C drive. The third is the recovery partition and it should NOT have been assigned a drive letter and you MUST NOT touch it - do not add or delete ANY files.
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