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D drive

Hi
I keep getting message you are running out of space on recovery disc drive D how or what do I do to make more space on it .

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  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
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    You don't mention on what PC laptop etc .
    Recovery drive is not something you mess with as you can lose your recovery.
    Can you see it in explorer .
  • Dobiesmon
    Dobiesmon Posts: 504 Forumite
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    Hi
    Sorry its on a HP laptop and windows 10
  • kwikbreaks
    kwikbreaks Posts: 9,187 Forumite
    Get into Disk Manager (Windows + x will bring up menu showing it).

    Your main windows drive should show as the C drive and on the same disk there will normally be two other partitions the larger one being the recovery partition and it will be labelled as such. It should have NO drive letter. I suspect yours does and will be labelled D. As the recovery partition will normally be pretty much full this is probably why you keep seeing this warning.

    If this is the case then I'd consider removing the drive letter - http://acer.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/38112/~/windows-10%3A-change-a-drive-letter-in-disk-management
  • googler
    googler Posts: 16,103 Forumite
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    Dobiesmon wrote: »
    Hi
    I keep getting message you are running out of space on recovery disc drive D how or what do I do to make more space on it .

    Are you actively saving anything to this drive?

    Documents, music, photos, anything?

    Download WinDirStat and run it against the drive to see not only how much space has been used, but exactly what is using the space.
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