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Partioned Hard Drive

by dellicious Nov 13, 2010 8:26AM PST

I have a Inspirion 1764. I did not know the hard drive was partioned. After adding some programs I discovered evreything went to the to OS(C) Drive and not the :Local Disk (D) drive. I would like to know if I uninstalled and then tried to reinstall, how would I go about it. Thanks for any help

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What size is the Local disk

by wb2001 Nov 13, 2010 10:38AM PST

Although the C partition contains the OS, by default all applications and data are also written to it. The D partition is usually your Recovery partition, and sized less than 15GB. As it's purpose is for a total re-install to factory new OS, it is never supposed to be used for (1) applications or data, (2) restore points.

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Size of Local Disk

by dellicious Nov 14, 2010 11:11PM PST

My C Drive has 58.5 GB with 26.2 unused

My D Drive has 397 GB with 397 unused

My daughter has the sam Laptop and her drives are the same as mine but both are being used.

Thanks for your help

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