The Backup (D:) Drive.. what's it for?

Question

I don't fully understand what the Backup (D:) Drive is for...

My Local Disk (C:) Drive is pretty full ((14.2GB of 51.2GB free)), so.. if it gets ENTIRELY full, is the Backup (D:) Drive there to help with that?

Also, if my C: Drive gets entirely full, what will happen to my computer?

Answer 1

it may be another physical hard disk drive or a partition of a single drive. but that doesn't matter. the reason why some techs put a D: drive in a system is to let the computer users have a separate storage drive. instead of saving your files (word documents, presentations, music files, pictures, etc) on your C: drive, you can place them on your D: drive. that would let you save space on your C: drive and so you can install more programs in it.



another good thing is that, if you need to format your C: drive, you won't have a problem with your precious files since they're saved in a different drive,



hope that helps...

Answer 2

Does your computer have 2 physical hard drives, or have you just partitioned a single one?



You may want to use a partition tool to undo that, so you will have only one hard drive, with whatever the capacity.



Otherwise if you do have 2 separate hard drives it can be very useful for, as it's named, backups. Copy all your documents and other files to your D drive incase your C drive stuffs up.



If C gets fully full, XP (or whichever OS you're using) will have a whinge and tell you to delete some stuff.

Answer 3

Hi! Most likely, the Backup D: is a partition of the other one. Basically, you have like 2 hard disks. So you can use D: for backup or to store other files.



Based also with your figures, 14.2 GB of 51.2, you're far from making it full. :)



If your C: gets entirely full, that's bad. Of course, you have to make sure you still have enough space to store programs and to run them. You might be needing a larger hard disk if that time comes.

Answer 4

jayjav D is for removable disk backup C is internal so to use D for back up one must insert disc into D drive aka dvd or cd