acer aspire 5580

hi i have an acer aspire 5580 running vista h/p. i have an issue where the d drive is almost completely full despite there being very little actually on the comp. no games or videos, only music, msn and photo files. ive went into d drive and deleted some of the back up files but that has just given me under 8gb free out of about 42gb why is the drive so full if there is very little in there? should i do a factory restore? or reformat the drive?
please help thankyou

 

Welcome to the forums...

I have heard of this issue in vista where when you delete files vista does not release the space or it does not show the space as being free even though it is.

You can try formating the data partition. First move any data your currently have on that partition to somewhere else then format the D (data partition) alone.

On a side note: doing a factory restore won't help you because Acer's factory restore only restores the C partition(where windows is installed) it does nothing to the data partition. Therefore you will have to sort this partition out yourself.

Hope this information is of use to you...

 

thanks evo, did the format of the d partition and it did the trick im now running at under 7gb of 42.5gb capacity.