No, your hard drive isn’t quite full yet
Today I am going to clear the air on something that has been confusing noobies for a while now. I'm referring to the recovery partition that companies like HP include with their computers.
The recovery partition is a small section of the computer's hard drive used to restore the computer back to its factory condition. And while it's nice to know this kind of recovery procedure exists, it's usually not a good sign when a technical support person tells you they are going to use it.
So why the confusion?
The confusion lies in that the recovery partition shows up as a separate drive, usually drive letter D, under the list of hard disk drives. Furthermore, the recovery partition is usually only large enough to hold the recovery files so it appears that the drive is reaching capacity.
The best advice I can give noobies is to completely ignore the recovery partition. If it helps, complete ignore drive D (they are one in the same). If you are checking to see how much disk storage space (often mistakenly referred to as memory) you have remaining, just look at drive letter C.
And hope you never need to use drive letter D.
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