Easy Transfer Filled up My D: Drive (recovery OS etc)

I recently bought a new Dell computer equipped with windows Vista Premium and
a D: Partition for recovery purposes

My old computer is an HP with a D: partition for recovery purposes.

I purchased the Belkin cable so I could use easy transfer.

The default in easy transfer copies all available disks: c: d: etc.

I didn't notice this, and happily took the default in the Easy transfer
program.

I got a cryptic warning message about a possible problem with not enough
disk space, but it didn't refer to the D: partition and I wondered how I
could possibly have a disk capacity problem since I was transferring from a
60 gig drive to a new 350 gig drive.

I ignored the warning nad let the Easy transfer do its thing.

Part way indo the transfer, it then told me my D: drive was out of space and
Easy Transfer couldn't continue.

I did try again with easy transfer, but instead of the default, only chose
to copy the C: drive. The transferfer went smoothly.

The problem I have now, is that my recovery partiton (D: drive) is out of
space and tells me about it every 5 minutes or so.

It is full of the new Dell recovery stuff, which I need, and the old HP
recovery stuff that I don't need.

The problem I have, is all these recovery files are hidden in a directory
that I can't seem to open. I cand see this directory from explorer, but can't
open it to go in and remove the old computer HP recovery files.

How can I change permissions on this recovery directory so I can get into it
and remove the HP files.

Thanks,

Rick

A very simple solution: STOP saving anything, or sending anything, to the D:
Drive.
--
Mad Mike


"streetrod" wrote:

>
> I have the same problem. I used wet to transfer from HP Vista home
> premium 64 bit to HP Vista home premium 64 bit using a WD external hard
> drive. The transfer size was 34 gb. It sent to the Recovery D drive and
> ran out of space and quit. I tried a 2nd time and watched and it sent to
> the D drive again and quit. Now my new computer is out of space on the
> Recovery D drive. I ran a set of recovery disc before I started, so I
> could just delete all the D drive or run the recovery disc to start the
> computer from scratch. This seems drastic. I don,t want to have a
> problem and be warned all the time because of no space on Recovery D
> Drive. Does anyone have a simple fix?
>
>
> --
> streetrod
>

Delete the WET files from the D drive and add another drive. If you are
going from the same system to the same system, I assume it is on another
machine, so how do you plan to transfer the data anyway?

"streetrod" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
news:212e005f38bb02cbdb5915e93abae18c@nntp-gateway.com...
>
> I have the same problem. I used wet to transfer from HP Vista home
> premium 64 bit to HP Vista home premium 64 bit using a WD external hard
> drive. The transfer size was 34 gb. It sent to the Recovery D drive and
> ran out of space and quit. I tried a 2nd time and watched and it sent to
> the D drive again and quit. Now my new computer is out of space on the
> Recovery D drive. I ran a set of recovery disc before I started, so I
> could just delete all the D drive or run the recovery disc to start the
> computer from scratch. This seems drastic. I don,t want to have a
> problem and be warned all the time because of no space on Recovery D
> Drive. Does anyone have a simple fix?
>
>
> --
> streetrod

Just a guess, but is it possible you could use one of the date columns, say
date created, etc. I would think the native files would have earlier dates.

"streetrod" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> John, Thanks for the reply. I used WET to transfer from old computer
> with Vista Premuim 64 bit to new computer with same OS. I found out too
> late that WET transfers the recovery D drive from the old computer if
> you do not select what to transfer. I used the easy option first (by
> mistake). I figured out to select what to transfer. Now I have used
> the WET to transfer only the C drive from old computer and everything is
> OK on C drive on new computer. The problem is some of the old computer
> Recovery D is on the new computer and D drive is full, 74mb free, should
> be about 1.4GB. I went into this new computer D drive to delete and did
> delete some that I could identify, but it made no difference in free
> space. I don't really know what is safe to delete. I hate to format the
> Recovery D partition, as I would have to run recovery from the recovery
> DVD's that I made to start with, luckly I did these 1st thing. I think
> this would clear C drive also. Do you or anyone have any ideas on how to
> remove only the extra that was put on by WET on the new computer
> Recovery D. Thanks for any help!
>
>
> --
> streetrod