What is D: for???

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Ramos12, Oct 20, 2007.

  1. Ramos12

    Ramos12 Private E-2

    Yes, when i go to my computer under Hard Disk Drives there is C: which is my main local disk drive and then there is D: which is Downloads?

    I click on it and the contents are:MSOCache,RECYCLER, and System Volume Information. It takes up 74.8 mb and the whole drive is 40.2 gb. What is it and what do I do with it?
     
    Ramos12, Oct 20, 2007
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  2. Yargwel

    Yargwel MajorGeek

    It sounds as though your hard drive has a second partition and this has become your D: drive.

    If you double-click on My Computer do you see under Hard Disk Drives two (or more) local disks with the first being labelled C: and a second being labelled D:? If you do then it will also tell you how much space is allocated to the D drive. You can use this drive (assuming it really exists) for anything you wish.
     
    Yargwel, Oct 21, 2007
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  3. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    MSOCACHE is the installer files for MS Office, these save you having to go find the Office disks if you need an option thats not defaultly installed, worth keeping.

    RECYCLER is your bin, every drive has one of these, only seen if your have files unhidden.

    System Volume Information is the System Restore Points depository, you can purge your System Restore points and just keep the last good one by following the advise in this article http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/faqsrwxp.mspx posted this as it has much info on system restore and how to control how much space it takes up, if you have Vista then please post again as I can give you a set of commands to reduce the amount of space system restore takes of your HD.
     
    DavidGP, Oct 21, 2007
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  4. Ramos12

    Ramos12 Private E-2

    Halo I do not have Vista I have XP Pro. Yargwel how would I go about using the D: Drive at my will?
     
    Ramos12, Oct 21, 2007
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  5. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    The link and the instructions are for XP, only mentioned Vista in case you were using that OS.



    As for using the drive I assume you can open it up and store your files on it?

    To test just open it up and right click any blank space and choose New > Folder and create a new folder, if you can create a folder without being blocked them you can use this drive for anything you want ( music, photographs, Documents, downloads etc etc, mainly it would be a storage drive as many applications dont allow you to custom install to drives other than C:
     
    DavidGP, Oct 21, 2007
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  6. Yargwel

    Yargwel MajorGeek

    Do as Halo suggested. Go to My Computer Double click on the D drive then try it. :)
     
    Yargwel, Oct 22, 2007
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