What is the "factory image" drive?

[will4865]

I open the factory image folder and is empty: but then icon in drive "D" reads 1.89 GB free of 13.6 GB. Where are all the files?

[Chiefkyle]

They are Hidden / System files. And are no seen unless you have your system display these file types. Which I would not recommend.

[jay0978]

I don't know a lot about this "D" drive. But I have noticed that when I went to manually back up my computer files.. the auto-back up (a tool within my security suite) had the D drive listed as the back up destination.  I'm not sure if this is proper or not.. I never had the auto back up on.

[Ben95111]

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@jay0978 wrote:

I don't know a lot about this "D" drive. But I have noticed that when I went to manually back up my computer files.. the auto-back up (a tool within my security suite) had the D drive listed as the back up destination.  I'm not sure if this is proper or not.. I never had the auto back up on.

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It isn't proper because you are backing up to the D drive, unless under the Computer section it specifically says that the 😧 drive is something other than your recovery partition.

[Chiefkyle]

D Drive is the recovery partition.

When the security software looks for a place to put a backup, it looks for hard drives. So it wants to use the only available one, which is D. I Do Not recommend backing up to D Drive, you can potentialy destroy the HP Recovery Data, and not be able to recover your OS (operating system).

Recomendation: Get an External USB Hard Drive, and do manual backups to it, versus automaic backups.

[drj93720]

I hate to admit this, by I inadvertently erased my factory image drive  folder contents.  (Don't ask!!!)   Most things seem to work OK sot far.  I did have trouble formatting a memory stick.  How do I recover the drive contents? I do have the recovery discs I made when I received the computer. 

[Chiefkyle]

Put disk 1 in the dvd drive, power the machine up, boot from the dvd, tell the recovery software to delete everything on the drive. It will re-create both the OS partition, and the recovery partition.

So long as there are no partitions on the hard drive, the recovery disks will creat one.

[rkennicott]

recently, for the 1st time, iallowed microsoft/windows to download their "stuff".  1.47GB is all that's left of the factory image (D:) of the total 9.87 GB.   Will micro/win download so much as to explode or crash that drive on my hp compaq presario?  it has windows 7 in it and a memory # of 2.  norton is currently protecting my pc (for another 9mo. or so) and also is temporily backing the files.  Tho micro/win says there isn't any backup.  If this is too many questions at once, could i just learn the answer to the initial one please.? 

[rkennicott]

ummm, do you recommend buying that micro/win backup thing if you, (I) don't download much, don't email much 2 anyone, 

i just play msn free online dominoes, look at my daughter's facebk pictures, listen 2 itunes radio, and youtube/music?  ps, what is tag?

[maxol]

How I erase all those files of Microsoft that are crowding the memory of my computer?