mr happy

mr happy · Apr 1, 2009

i was having issues with the recovey d popup telling me it's almost full so I took matters into my own hands went into disk mamagement and uh deleted d! I now have 10gb unallocated but no popup? Where or where did my d go?

SuperFuzz · Apr 1, 2009

mr happy said:
i was having issues with the recovey d popup telling me it's almost full so I took matters into my own hands went into disk mamagement and uh deleted d! I now have 10gb unallocated but no popup? Where or where did my d go?

The pop up was telling you that your D drive/partition was nearly full, and you needed to either remove some files from it or start saving data to another drive/partition.

You now deleted your D drive, which was a partition on your primary hard drive, so now the drive is not available, nor the data that was on it. Since you deleted the partition, you will need to use a partition tool (such as partition magic) to recreate the D partition or absorb the now unallocated space into your C drive.

Hopefully nothing critical was stored on that partition. If there was, I suggest you purchase data recovery software and recover the data that was on it BEFORE you re-partition the space or absorb it into your C drive.

P.S. Deleting drives/partitions is a bad thing unless you know specifically what you are doing, don't need any data on the drive/partition or plan on absorbing the unallocated space into your primary drive/partition and have transferred any needed information on the partition to another location.

Brink · Apr 2, 2009

Hello Mr Happy, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Unfortunately, that was your OEM Vista recovery partition that is used to restore your Vista installation back to factory default conditions if needed. Without it you will not be able to reinstall your Vista unless you have created a set of recovery dvds, order anothery copy from your computer manufacturer (OEM), or purchase Vista again.

It sounded like System Restore may have been storing restore points on the D: drive as well filling it up. Unchecking the D: drive in System Protection most likely would have resolved your issue instead.

If you are unable to recover the partition as SuperFuzz suggested, then you can use STEP TWO in the tutorial below to extend C: into it to add that space to C: .

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/95418-disk-management-delete-extend.html

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Shawn

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