How to increase the space in d drive

kha09 · 10-31-2009, 01:46 PM

I need a help i increase the space in the d drive because its keep saying the low disk space. My OS Windows Vista.
Thanx

**raptor_pa** · 10-31-2009, 02:04 PM

More info on your drives, how they are partitioned, do you have any free space to be able to expand the partition? Drives have a finitie amount of storage. How about posting a screencap from disk management so we can see how your drives are set up?

kha09 · 10-31-2009, 02:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by raptor_pa

More info on your drives, how they are partitioned, do you have any free space to be able to expand the partition? Drives have a finitie amount of storage. How about posting a screencap from disk management so we can see how your drives are set up?

Thanx for the reply could u tell me how to get the screencap from the disk management so u can see the drives set up.

thanx

**raptor_pa** · 10-31-2009, 03:12 PM

With disk management open hit printscreen, this will copy the screen to the clipboard, then open a new drawing in MSPaint and paste it in there, save and upload.

kha09 · 10-31-2009, 04:06 PM

i open the disk management screen press the print scren button but can' t find the file. pls tell me how to get that file because i press the print screen buttton but nothing happened.
I am very much dumm in computer.
thanx

**raptor_pa** · 10-31-2009, 04:46 PM

There is no file, it is on the clipboard...
Open MSPaint
create a new image, select edit paste and then save the file in paint.

kha09 · 11-01-2009, 12:36 PM

This is the d drive partion.
thanx

**raptor_pa** · 11-01-2009, 02:08 PM

The disk is maxed out, that is the recovery partition, you should not be writing anything to that partition, it is to recover the original installation in case of failure. What have you written to the D drive?

kha09 · 11-01-2009, 02:24 PM

I didn,t write anything, is there anyway to increase that partition.

**raptor_pa** · 11-01-2009, 02:39 PM

No, there is no free space on the disk. Modifying the system partition can get pretty shakey to try to free up space on C and then add it to d. XP won't do it, Vista may do it if it can, third party tools like easus partition manager might be able to do it, how much space do you have on the C drive? and what is on the D drive?

kha09 · 11-01-2009, 02:57 PM

c drive have 159GB out of 224GB
d drive have 11.4MB out of 8.67GB

kha09 · 11-01-2009, 03:00 PM

d drive have only back up files that system back up automatically

**raptor_pa** · 11-01-2009, 03:18 PM

See if there is some setting in the backup to overwrite older backups.

**BCCOMP** · 11-01-2009, 03:20 PM

Hi,
As raptor_pa stated in his previous post the D: drive is your recovery partition.
If Vista is "automatically" backing up to this drive you are going to have issues (no disk space). Did you set Vista to backup to the D: drive?
You may have inadvertently.
The D: drive is for Recovery ONLY

You appear to have enough space on you C: drive to resize the partition and make a "new" partition. This will allow you to use this "new" partition for your backup.

Have you made or have the Recovery CD for this computer?
Can you tell us what is on the D: drive?
It should show you a recovery folder and that should be about it.

What is the make and model of this compaq computer?

Bill

10-31-2009, 01:46 PM	#1 (permalink)
kha09 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 11 OS: win vista home premium	How to increase the space in d drive I need a help i increase the space in the d drive because its keep saying the low disk space. My OS Windows Vista. Thanx

10-31-2009, 02:04 PM	#2 (permalink)
raptor_pa Mod Hardware Team Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Central PA Posts: 4,934 OS: XP	Re: How to increase the space in d drive More info on your drives, how they are partitioned, do you have any free space to be able to expand the partition? Drives have a finitie amount of storage. How about posting a screencap from disk management so we can see how your drives are set up? __________________

10-31-2009, 03:12 PM	#4 (permalink)
raptor_pa Mod Hardware Team Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Central PA Posts: 4,934 OS: XP	Re: How to increase the space in d drive With disk management open hit printscreen, this will copy the screen to the clipboard, then open a new drawing in MSPaint and paste it in there, save and upload. __________________

10-31-2009, 04:06 PM	#5 (permalink)
kha09 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 11 OS: win vista home premium	Re: How to increase the space in d drive i open the disk management screen press the print scren button but can' t find the file. pls tell me how to get that file because i press the print screen buttton but nothing happened. I am very much dumm in computer. thanx

10-31-2009, 04:46 PM	#6 (permalink)
raptor_pa Mod Hardware Team Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Central PA Posts: 4,934 OS: XP	Re: How to increase the space in d drive There is no file, it is on the clipboard... Open MSPaint create a new image, select edit paste and then save the file in paint. __________________

11-01-2009, 02:08 PM	#8 (permalink)
raptor_pa Mod Hardware Team Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Central PA Posts: 4,934 OS: XP	Re: How to increase the space in d drive The disk is maxed out, that is the recovery partition, you should not be writing anything to that partition, it is to recover the original installation in case of failure. What have you written to the D drive? __________________

11-01-2009, 02:24 PM	#9 (permalink)
kha09 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 11 OS: win vista home premium	Re: How to increase the space in d drive I didn,t write anything, is there anyway to increase that partition.

11-01-2009, 02:39 PM	#10 (permalink)
raptor_pa Mod Hardware Team Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Central PA Posts: 4,934 OS: XP	Re: How to increase the space in d drive No, there is no free space on the disk. Modifying the system partition can get pretty shakey to try to free up space on C and then add it to d. XP won't do it, Vista may do it if it can, third party tools like easus partition manager might be able to do it, how much space do you have on the C drive? and what is on the D drive? __________________

11-01-2009, 02:57 PM	#11 (permalink)
kha09 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 11 OS: win vista home premium	Re: How to increase the space in d drive c drive have 159GB out of 224GB d drive have 11.4MB out of 8.67GB

11-01-2009, 03:00 PM	#12 (permalink)
kha09 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 11 OS: win vista home premium	Re: How to increase the space in d drive d drive have only back up files that system back up automatically

11-01-2009, 03:18 PM	#13 (permalink)
raptor_pa Mod Hardware Team Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Central PA Posts: 4,934 OS: XP	Re: How to increase the space in d drive See if there is some setting in the backup to overwrite older backups. __________________

11-01-2009, 03:20 PM	#14 (permalink)
BCCOMP Mod Hardware Team Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: New York Posts: 7,086 OS: Win XP SP3 / Windows 7 Beta / Open Suse My System	Re: How to increase the space in d drive Hi, As raptor_pa stated in his previous post the D: drive is your recovery partition. If Vista is "automatically" backing up to this drive you are going to have issues (no disk space). Did you set Vista to backup to the D: drive? You may have inadvertently. The D: drive is for Recovery ONLY You appear to have enough space on you C: drive to resize the partition and make a "new" partition. This will allow you to use this "new" partition for your backup. Have you made or have the Recovery CD for this computer? Can you tell us what is on the D: drive? It should show you a recovery folder and that should be about it. What is the make and model of this compaq computer? Bill __________________ PC Wizard \| Everest \| Power supply info \| Memtest86+ PC Running Slow Speedfan