Recovery Disk D Full Vista
I have been getting a message that my 'Recovery D drive is almost full. Click to see how to clear more space'. I click, and the program shows that I have 0 bytes I can clear.
I don't put anything on that drive (at least on purpose). There are two files that are on there which got there 6/8/09: MediaID.bin and what looks to be another copy of my document files. I am running Windows Home basic on a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop. The message flashes almost constantly.
The drive shows that I have 1.19 GB free of 9.99 GB. It is very likely it is not enabled, anyway. Depending upon your version of operating system, the steps to get to the controls for that, may vary. In Vista you bring up the System Info sheet (do a right-click over the 'Computer' icon, or title, and select Properties, or my favorite way is to hold down the 'Windows' key and press the button). On that Vista System properties sheet, select 'System protection' in the left-hand column. You should see which drives you have Automatic restore points set up to do, and even the dates of when it was done last.
Recovery(D): full (34 posts) Started 9. Is because Vista assumes D: to be empty (which is the case with Vista delivered. Asap burn a recovery disk from the.
I have a Compaq Presario SR5152NX Desktop PC. I use windows 7. But when i bought the computer it had vista (i updated to windows 7 about 2 years back). Anyways recently i started to get a popup at the bottom right saying that the recovery disk is full and click to delete files. When i clicked i find that the recycling bin is empty and i cant delete anything. I deleted all my previous backups and its still full and it stops me from making a new backup because there's not enough space.I see 'other files' from the manage windows backup diskspace menu which is taking majority of the space. But when i acutally go to my recovery disk i dont see any folder as such.
I dont save anything other than backups on my recovery drive. From reading other forum posts i found out how to show hidden files.
But im not sure what files i should avoid deleting and what files i can delete. I have already said i used to have windows vista i said that because i think some of the files in this recovery folder have to do with vista. When i went into some of the folders i saw folders/files with the name vista. So i would like to know which files i should delete and which files i should avoid.
Also i have no intention to go back to vista. All i want to do is to be able to backup my computer and in case of a problem to restore it to a previous date on windows 7 Thanks so much for all your help. @floyd617 Welcome to HTG. The recovery partition in your computer has system files which are required to restore your computer to factory condition. This partition is not for storing backups. Since you had upgraded to Windows 7, there is no point keeping the contents of the system files(Vista) in it. So, you may remove it as explained or you may go to Disk Management and right click on recovery partition and format it to remove its contents.
After formatting the partition you may use it for backup. @santo So your saying I can delete the recovery drive's contents and then backup my computer on that drive? And still backup in that drive and in case of an emergency I can still restore to an earlier point in time? How do I delete the contents of the recovery partition? When I open disk management and right click I don't get the option to remove contents. But I saw a forum on this site that you right-click then click 'change drive letter and paths.'
And then delete. But when I do that i don't see the recovery partition anymore in start-computer. So i added the (D:) again.
Hp Recovery Disk Vista
Can i just enable to see hidden files and then go into start-computer-recovery (D:) and delete everything except for the icon where it says my computer name and shows a symbol of a hard drive? Thanks again for your help.