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OK, I have a Windows 8 Laptop (model should be in my profile), that I use as my main computer. It has a 1TB hard drive on it. When I go into my computer, the C: drive only shows about 372 GB of space total. There is another hard drive listed as D: drive. Now the way I understand this is that D: is actually just a partition on my single 1TB hard drive, and that it is used for recovery and stuff. It is currently taking over 500 GB of my available space though, and when I bought this computer I was counting on 1 TB. The odd thing is that if I open up the D: drive, there is only one file it it called "msdownld.tmp". It takes up less that one megabyte and the rest of the drive/partition is completely blank. Is there a reason for this? Can I resize the partition or delete it to recover all that wasted space? Or will I wreck my system by doing that.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
OK, I have a Windows 8 Laptop (model should be in my profile), that I use as my main computer. It has a 1TB hard drive on it. When I go into my computer, the C: drive only shows about 372 GB of space total. There is another hard drive listed as D: drive. Now the way I understand this is that D: is actually just a partition on my single 1TB hard drive, and that it is used for recovery and stuff. It is currently taking over 500 GB of my available space though, and when I bought this computer I was counting on 1 TB. The odd thing is that if I open up the D: drive, there is only one file it it called "msdownld.tmp". It takes up less that one megabyte and the rest of the drive/partition is completely blank. Is there a reason for this? Can I resize the partition or delete it to recover all that wasted space? Or will I wreck my system by doing that.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- ASUS N56VJ
- CPU
- Intel i7 - 3630 QM
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- Nvidia GeForce 635M
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080
- Browser
- Firefox
- Antivirus
- Windows Defender/MalwareBytes