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    Pavilion dv8 DATA (D:) disk full

    Discussion in 'HP' started by raffit, Aug 6, 2011.

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    Hi,

    I have a 10 month old Pavilion dv8 laptop. It came with 2 306 GB disk drives, one for the system, recovery and tools partitions, and the other one labeled DATA (D :). That drive is currently showing as almost full, despite the fact I have put almost nothing in it.
    I have a minimal amount of data stored on that disk: my personal folder in D:\Users is only 1.2 GB. Yet the disk drive shows as 3/4 full, currently with 85 GB free out of a total of 298. A few days ago it's icon started glowing red, so the only thing I found to clean it up was deleting all but the most recent restore point. Looking individually through the folders on D: there is nothing of such size. How can I clean it up?

    Thanks for helping,
    R.
     
    raffit, Aug 6, 2011
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