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Old July 27th, 2017, 12:38 PM
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Windows 10 Restore Partition

I have an HP Laptop with a 12.1 GB partition (D. It is filled, so there is no room left. I get error messages about insufficient disc space while running a Microsoft Access app. The C: drive has ample space available.

Is my program trying to store some data in the D: partition?

Should that partition be filled?

What can I eliminate from that drive to get more space? There are many files that use 0.5 GB each. Are all these necessary?

D: is a Restore partition.
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Old July 27th, 2017, 05:27 PM
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sometimes the temporary folder is too full. access and other windows office uses the temporary folder while the program is running. try windows disk cleanup

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...-in-windows-10

you did not say how much free space there is on the c drive. d drive is unusual as a recovery partition. did you create it? in addition, normally office suite apps does not use another drive as it runs unless you have been saving files there in the past. finally, post a screen shot of your disk managment so we can see exactly what is going on.
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Old July 28th, 2017, 12:10 PM
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I did a screen shot, but don't see a way to attach a file here.

The C: drive shows 49.6 out of 285 GB.

D: shows 12.2 GB out of 12,2 GB.


I get an error message about D: running out of space. This message occurs occasionally as I am running IE.
I don't know who created the Restore partition, This is a club computer, and others use it.

I'll do the disk cleanup. This computer seems slow.
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Old July 28th, 2017, 12:23 PM
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It appears that the Recycle Bin is on the full D: drive. I emptied the Recycle Bin. The error message, should go away, but I don't know why the D: is full. If I could post a screen shot, I could post the directory of D:.
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Old July 28th, 2017, 02:46 PM
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It sounds to me like when programs are being installed they're being installed to the D: drive instead of to the C: drive.
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Old July 30th, 2017, 07:02 AM
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Hi, go to search and type:- command prompt, right click on the returned command prompt and select "run as administrator" an elevated cmd prompt will open copy & paste the text below:-

set > 0 & notepad 0 (press enter) Please copy paste the notepad outcome here.
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Old August 3rd, 2017, 08:06 PM
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Sorry for the delay, just couldn't get back to this. Here is the dump.

ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\ProgramData
APPDATA=C:\Users\DelRods\AppData\Roaming
CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
CommonProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files
CommonProgramW6432=C:\Program Files\Common Files
COMPUTERNAME=DELRODS-PC
ComSpec=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
FPS_BROWSER_APP_PROFILE_STRING=Internet Explorer
FPS_BROWSER_USER_PROFILE_STRING=Default
FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Users\DelRods
LOCALAPPDATA=C:\Users\DelRods\AppData\Local
LOGONSERVER=\\DELRODS-PC
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=2
OS=Windows_NT
Path=C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\WINDOW S\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\ WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WS F;.WSH;.MSC
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=AMD64
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=Intel64 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10, GenuineIntel
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
PROCESSOR_REVISION=170a
ProgramData=C:\ProgramData
ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
ProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)
ProgramW6432=C:\Program Files
PROMPT=$P$G
PSModulePath=C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell \v1.0\Modules\
PUBLIC=C:\Users\Public
SESSIONNAME=Console
SystemDrive=C:
SystemRoot=C:\WINDOWS
TEMP=C:\Users\DelRods\AppData\Local\Temp
TMP=C:\Users\DelRods\AppData\Local\Temp
USERDOMAIN=DelRods-PC
USERDOMAIN_ROAMINGPROFILE=DelRods-PC
USERNAME=DelRods
USERPROFILE=C:\Users\DelRods
windir=C:\WINDOWS
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Old August 4th, 2017, 11:26 PM
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Hi, your environment variables look OK, nothing showing as referencing "d" drive. Go to search and type:- command prompt, search will return command prompt, right click on this and select "run as administrator" an elevated cmd prompt will open, at the prompt change to your D: drive then at the D:\> prompt type:- Dir > 0 & notepad 0 (press enter) Please paste the notepad outcome here.
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Old August 5th, 2017, 12:59 AM
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I am running as Administrator. Here is the dump.

Volume in drive D is RECOVERY
Volume Serial Number is 547E-7E6E

Directory of D:\

08/04/2017 07:50 PM 0 0
08/09/2015 07:05 PM <DIR> DELRODS-PC
07/26/2015 06:36 PM 528 MediaID.bin
2 File(s) 528 bytes
1 Dir(s) 3,133,440 bytes free
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Old August 5th, 2017, 08:04 AM
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Hi, check system restore settings to ensure D: drive is not included. You still have to invoke "run as administrator" for CMD and powershell prompts as explained, it doesn't matter if your are logged on as admin, this is by design.

Go to search and type:- folder options, press enter select "view" and put a check in:-

Show hidden files and folders, and uncheck, Hide protected operating system files.

Then open a cmd (as admin, as shown). Change to D: and at the D:\> prompt type:- start . include the space and the . (press enter) explorer will open with the contents of the D drive. What shows?
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Old August 6th, 2017, 12:23 PM
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For some reason, Print Screen doesn't work, but there are two folders with a lot of files. One is DELRODS-PC, and the other is PRELOAD. PRELOAD uses 9.97 GB of memory. It contains a number of Base.WIM files. The DELRODS-PC folder contains some backup folders. The backup folders contain a number of compressed backup files.

There are other folders that use less memory space.
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Old August 7th, 2017, 12:18 AM
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Hi, the Preload Base.wim files are the HP recovery files, DO not touch them, the other appears to be backups, make sure you are not automatically backing something up to the D drive, they would be the problem. I have some medical problems and may not be online for some time, all the best.
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Old August 7th, 2017, 12:59 AM
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Jenae, Thanks for your help. I hope that you are well soon.
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Old August 8th, 2017, 08:40 AM
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This helped me as well, thanks jenae!
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