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[darren1972]

hello.i mainly use drive c on my computer.but drive d is a recovery drive and it has loads of room on it.nearly 60gb.can i use this like i do with drive c?save to it etc or do i need to partition that in some way.thanks.

[MrTicker]

Hi there,

You should be able to use  some of that space by shrinking the partition. By how much depends on where the last data position is located on the partition.
To find out do this :
1. Right click My Computer>Select Manage>Disk Management under Storage>Right click on partition D>Select Shrink Volume

2. In the second box down, it tells you the maximum size that you can shrink the volume by, in MB. Divide this figure by 1024 (1024MB=1GB) to discover,in GB, how large or small your new partition will be. This same figure will also be in the third,highlighted box.

3. If the the size is large enough for your needs you can go ahead and shrink the volume by pressing the Shrink button.

4. This will create a new unallocated space for you on which you now create your new partition.

5. To do this Right click on the unallocated space>Select> Simple New Volume>Next>Next

6. Select the next available drive letter from the drop down box, not A or B, click> Next.

7. Type a volume label name for the new partition, and tick the Perform a Quick Format box, click>Next.

8. Click> Finish and close down Computer Management

Now you will be able to create folders etc on your new partition

If the size is not suitable for you, another option would be for you to create an image of your recovery partition and save it to an external drive to be used when required.

Then you would need to delete the entire contents of your D drive and you would then have full use of all the storage space on it.

Or you could use a third party partition manager to move the position of the data on your D drive so that you could make more space available to you.

Post back with how you get on with this.

Cheers,HTH,

ticker