A message continually appears saying the drive ‘presario.rp (D:)’ is running low on disk space. However, the Disk Cleanup wizard scans the C: drive, rather than the D: drive. Another message follows shortly after advising the drive only has 6 MB of free disk space. System Restore has been suspended as there isn’t enough disk space available. The computer is running Windows XP Professional on an AMD Athlon XP2400+ running at 1.99GHz with 256 MB RAM. It seems the computer is defaulting to the D: drive, rather than the C: drive. Can you shed any light on why this occurs?

It seems that your system drive (i.e. the drive containing your Windows installation) is drive D. Since this is the system drive, it’s possible that other programs you installed have defaulted to installing on the D drive. Another possibility is the D drive is a relatively small drive. Without further information on the drive configuration and specifications (e.g. drive size) it is difficult to tell. If you want to run the Disk Cleanup wizard on your D drive, go to the ‘Start’ menu > ‘Run’ and type ‘Cleanmgr /d d:’ (without the quotes) and click OK (for further information on switches to use with Disk Cleanup, look at support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=315246). However, its unlikely running Disk Cleanup will free a sizeable amount of space, considering the rather serious drive space issue you are encountering. What you should start doing is uninstalling applications which are installed on your D drive and install them on the C drive instead. Don’t try to directly copy the program directories from one drive to another, as this will not work (as within the Windows registry there are references to the program files being on the D drive). Instead, you must uninstall them from D and reinstall on C. You could also move any large folders (e.g. containing pictures, music, etc’¦) from your D drive to the C drive. As a final alternative, if the C drive has a sizeably larger capacity than the D drive, you could make your C drive the Windows system drive. To do this, you will need to backup all important data, from both drives, and then reinstall Windows on your C drive.