Low disk space problem

This PC runs Windows 7 Pro.  Its hard drive has two primary partitions: drive system (C :) and FACTORY_IMAGE (d).  The latter has a capacity of 12,083,933,760 bytes, which only 6 729 728 bytes are not used.  As a result, this warning "low disk space.  You run lack of space on FACTORY_IMAGE (d) "continues to appear every few minutes.  I'm sick and tired of this nagging fairly quickly.

I used Windows installation partitioning to shrink C:.  However, when I tried to expand D:, the option is grayed out.  Is there a setting that I could change to stop the nagging?  It would be dangerous to use a 3 rd-party utility to expand D:?

This PC was given without an installation disk, so I have to be careful with this recovery partition.

These instructions are for Vista, but they should work on Windows 7 as well: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windowsvista/ht/dislowdisk.htm

  1. Click Start, type the following command in the start search box, and then press the enter key.

    Regedit

    This command loads the registry editor program.

    Note: the registry is changed in these steps. Take great care in making the changes described below only.

  2. Find the HKEY_CURRENT_USER folder under computer and click the plus sign (+) after the folder name to expand the folder.

  3. Continue to expand the folders until you reach theHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion registry key.

  4. Select the policy under CurrentVersionkey.

  5. In the registry editor menu, select change, then New, then finally by key.

  6. After the key is created under the policy, it will be initially appointed new key #1.

    Change the name of the key to Explorer by typing exactly as shown and then hit the key entry .

  7. With the new key, Explorer, still selected, choose Edit, followed by new, then finally the DWORD (32 bit).

  8. Once the DWORD value is created under Explorer, it will be initially named new value #1.

    Change the name of the DWORD NoLowDiskSpaceChecks typing it exactly as shown and then hit the key entry .

  9. Right-click on the new NoLowDiskSpaceChecks DWORD you just created and clickEdit.

  10. In the data value: on the ground, to replace the zero with the number 1.

  11. Click OK , and then close the registry editor.

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