My new laptop has a C drive and a D drive the D drive is a data drive?

all of the programs are on the C drive and the D drive is empty. is the D drive for the installation of windows XP?

My new laptop has a C drive and a D drive the D drive is a data drive?
D: is to put all the stuff you download on, like mp3s and movies and photos. Otherwise all this downloaded stuff would eventually clog your operating system on C: So its like to keep the stuff safe and separated.





Unless D: is your CD/DVD drive.
Reply:Your 'D' drive is your back up-- this is where your back up recovery files are stored-- the back up files use about 4.5 gigabytes of storage-if you click on computer you will see that drive D says recovery.
Reply:No. XP will also be on C.





Expecially on laptops, the company will partition the drive into two partitions. You only have 1 drive, most likely. To make the computer run it's programs and OS faster, they put them on a small portion of the hard drive. If the computer has less places it needs to look for things, it can find them quicker.








The trouble is, that your desktop, and you My Documents folder are also, by default, on your C drive. You will want to change that so that your C drive doesn't get full, or get too full and slow down your computer when it tried to run its programs.
Reply:It an empty partition on your hard drive that can be used to store photos, music, video, etc. Often Data Drive are set up this way to allow easier backup on documents.
Reply:D: might have the swap file stored on it used by XP to be used as extra RAM. If you have enough space on that drive you could use it for other things you might need it for? Companies like to have their employees use the D drive to store their important information on D instead of C as if C got corupted then you'll loose the data on C. But when you re-install XP on C you would never touch D and your files would be in-tac!

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