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D: Drive almost full, only contains BOOTSECT.BAK

Magoo462 · 2014-01-27 11:26:58

I recently had some laptop issues, where my windows vista had to be reinstalled. Previously, both my C and D drives were nearly full with all sorts of stuff. When my laptop was returned, the C drive content had been restored and was nearly full once more. The D Drive however, whilst having only 4.95 GB free from 92 GB…

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27-01-2014 12:26pm

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Magoo462

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I recently had some laptop issues, where my windows vista had to be reinstalled. Previously, both my C and D drives were nearly full with all sorts of stuff. When my laptop was returned, the C drive content had been restored and was nearly full once more. The D Drive however, whilst having only 4.95 GB free from 92 GB (acccording to "My Computer"), only appears to contain an 8 KB BAK file called BOOTSECT.BAK.

It is a Fujitsu Siemens laptop, about 6 or 7 years old.

Can anybody tell me how to free up the space or should I just carry on using just the one drive?

Thanks

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#2 27-01-2014 12:31pm
bonzodog2

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Check your folder view settings, you are probably hiding system/hidden files. If you're sure you have nothing to be kept on , format it

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#3 27-01-2014 12:59pm
Magoo462

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Yeah, that done the trick. Thanks!

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