Help, I have a 2004 model HP Pavillion that is downloading and saving everything to my d: drive instead of my c: drive. I can't download anything now, because it says i'm out of disk space. Is there a way to change my settings back to C: as the default drive? Any info would be greatly appreciated. generalconor

You don't say what program you are using to download with? but I would guess that you need to change the settings in this program to point to your required folder on the C drive. Let us know the program you are downloading with and we should be able to help you more. Tim

Usually when you download something, a "save as" Window pops up & you can choose where to put the file. Apparently you're just accepting the default location every time & that location is in the D: partition? "If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions" - Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) in Pulp Fiction

Look in System Information (Start - Run - type: msinfo32 , click OK) on the right side. What does it say beside Windows Directory? If that says D:\...... Windows was installed on D. In that case, it's normal for the default location software is installed on to be D. You, or someone else, last installed the Windows installation you are booting from on the D partition. In that case, see response 3 in this: http://www.computing.net/answers/wi... It's about Win 2000 but the same thing applies to XP ...... If you are given the choice as to where to install something, you usually DO NOT have to install it on the same partition Windows is on. You can usually choose something other than the default Express installation or similar, and choose a Custom installation or similar instead, and/or change just the drive letter at the beginning of the location it installs to to another partition. However, when you have a brand name software installation, if you want to preserve the ability of the data contents of the second partition to be used to restore the orginal contents of C, you DO NOT install any data on the second partition on the original hard drive, or alter it's data in any way. Your situation is typical when someone has re-installed Windows by using a regular Windows CD on a system that has hard drive with an existing brand name software installation that has the usual two partitions on the original hard drive, if you, or someone, did not delete the partition contents at the beginning of Setup. XP (or 2000) Setup will not allow you to install Windows on a partition that already has Windows installed on it, unless you delete the contents of that partition first, and then partition and format it. It will install Windows on the second partition instead. Brand name systems always have two partitions on the original hard drive. The second partition is always smaller than the first one. It originally contains only the data needed to restore the original data contents of the first partition, C, along with using a single Recovery CD made for that purpose. You are supposed to make that Recovery CD yourself while Windows is still working properly, by using a program put there by the system maker in your All Programs list. That partition usually either has only a little more than enough free space on it to avoid your operating system continually generating messages about there not being enough free space on that partition, or less free space than that and the system builder has made a line in your registry preventing the operating system from generating that message for that partition. If you want to preserve the abilty of you being able to use the original data contents of the second partition to restore the original contents of C, you have destroyed that ability by installing Windows on the second partition. If you want to be able to restore the original contents of C now or in the future, you have to use a Recovery CD set to re-load the contents of the entire hard drive. You were supposed to make that Recovery CD set yourself while Windows was still working properly, by using a brand name supplied program in All Programs somewhere. If you have not done that, you may be able to order a Recovery CD set from the system builder's web site for your exact model. If you CAN get such a set, it is often quite cheap. E.g. I got such a set for a HP or Compaq model, it has 6? Cds, and it cost only 2x.xx before shipping. .... If you don't care whether Windows is on D as long as it has more space on the partition it is on, rather than re-loading Windows the right way, you can use a third party program generically called a partition manipulation program, such as Partition Magic 8.x, or a freeware progran available from the web, to make the second partition larger and the first partition smaller, without you losing data if you have enough free space on the hard drive. That usually works fine without you losing any data, but you are advised to back up whatever data you don't want to lose before you do that.