Hi, Ian.
I can translate some of your Disk Management output.
*SYSTEM NTFS status 'Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition)' Capacity
100MB, Free 70MB
This is your System Partition. When your computer is powered on, after the
POST (Power-On Self Test - usually hidden these days, since most users don't
know what it means, anyhow), contents of this partition are used to find the
Boot Volume. The only critical files here are Hidden and System files, so
it may look like the partition is empty. The "bootmgr" file is less than
300,000 bytes. The \Boot folder contains the BCD (Boot Configuration Data),
consisting of about 100 files in dozens of languages, totaling about 22 MB.
So the total usage for all this is less than 30 MB, leaving the 70 MB you
see from the 100 MB capacity of the partition. This obviously is a very
important partition, so leave it alone.
*C: NTFS status 'Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)'
Capacity 108.89GB, Free 80.06GB
This is the Boot Volume. It holds the entire C:\Windows folder tree, which
holds the entire Windows operating system, including thousands of folders,
subfolders and files, totaling 10s of GBs. You have ~80 GB free of ~109 GB
capacity; the ~28 GB used seems like a typical Win7 system. (But note that
Win7 can grow much larger, depending on the hardware and software
configuration of your specific computer. Mine has 56 GB free on the 102 GB
Boot Volume.)
*D: NTFS status 'Healthy (Logical Drive)' Capacity 104.51GB, Free 95,43GB
This volume has no special Status (System, Boot, Page File, etc.), so it is
all available for "data", consisting of your choice of applications, photos,
music, documents...or whatever you choose. Gene's guesses as to what the
files you listed might be are at least as good as mine might be, so I'll not
tackle that question. But...
...that D partition does seem unnecessarily large...
I think most of us would agree that there's no such thing as too large, when
it comes to data disks - unless you need the disk capacity for some other
use. This can become like Fibber McGee's closet (if you're old enough to
remember that), but if you keep your files properly organized, the sky's the
limit for a data drive. ;<}
I know nothing about those two small unlettered, unnamed, empty partitions
at the front of your disk; they probably are proprietary to your specific
computer model. You'll need to consult documentation about your computer.
RC
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"Ian Jackson" wrote in message
Ken1943 said:
It's a netbook. Max ram is 2gig. Does it come with a way to make system
restore dvd.
Don't know (but probably).
Probably need an external cd/dvd burner. This Asus netbook
has a way to make a usb stick recovery. The recovery is only about 5
gigs.
I've had a look using Disk Management, and the hard disc is divided as
follows:
*An un-named volume, status 'Healthy (Recovery Partition)' Capacity
15GB, Free 15GB
*An un-named volume, status 'Healthy (Primary Partition)' Capacity
4.39GB, Free 4.39GB
*C: NTFS status 'Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary
Partition)' Capacity 108.89GB, Free 80.06GB
*D: NTFS status 'Healthy (Logical Drive)' Capacity 104.51GB, Free
95,43GB
*SYSTEM NTFS status 'Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition)'
Capacity 100MB, Free 70MB
On the D partition are four files (user1.woo - 1kB, user1.wc1 -
4,192,356kB, user1.w01 - 4,192,314kB and user1.w02 - 1,030,587kB)
A system recovery partition usually doesn't have a drive letter.
Don't know how they make their recovery partition, but I would not fool
with it.
I don't have much idea what much of the above means, except that D
partition does seem unnecessarily large - especially as in the way the
computer would appear to be configured, in normal operation I doubt if
much will ever be written to it.
is 12.6GB, of which