C drive D drive

[John Boy Saint]

I have a Sony Vaio laptop with C & D drives. Nothing can be downloaded onto, or touched in the C drive and as a result the D drive free space is creaking at the seams. Can anyone think of why this could be happening.

[thesaint sfc]

Sounds like the D drive is perhaps a recovery partition? Is it windows 7? I'd probably delete the D partition and extend the C to use the whole of the drive.

 

If on XP then you'll need to look through the Sony software and see if something is backing up your system to that partition.

[saint_stevo]

check the security settings, i guess writing to C:/ is disabled for your user account

 

what OS is it running?

 

REPLY to TS SFC- i thought he meant that his HDD had been partitioned into C and D and he was unable to use any of the space on C thus filling up D rather quickly? No? So if he deletes D he then would have a larger, still inaccessible C drive..

Edited 22 February, 2011 by saint_stevo

[thesaint sfc]

Hmm you might be right. Do whatever Stevo says, coz then if it goes wrong you can blame him

[John Boy Saint]

check the security settings, i guess writing to C:/ is disabled for your user account

 

what OS is it running?

 

REPLY to TS SFC- i thought he meant that his HDD had been partitioned into C and D and he was unable to use any of the space on C thus filling up D rather quickly? No? So if he deletes D he then would have a larger, still inaccessible C drive..

 

Running Windows XP

[John Boy Saint]

Things went awry it appears when I made an 02 Dongle go to C not D in August the last entry on C is a ghost (you know faint icon) file called Connectoid xmls. just went to have a look at it and an active X warning comes up on internet explorer which opened automatically when clicked.