D drive is full

I'm running Vista Home Edition. I went to backup the C drive for the first
time and ran out of room on the D Recovery drive. I have since decided to
back up to online service that had more room. Now, should I/can I/how do I
make room on the D drive? Should I compress it? Should I delete the files,
since I've already back up everything to my online service? How important is
it to have space here? Thanks for helping.

Yes, carefully delete the files that it created. Don't compress it or
otherwise touch it. Vista uses it for Recovery purposes. Doing it to a
remote service may be a good idea but consider what happens if your failure
involves service interruption? An external HD may be a better choice. They
pretty cheap these days.
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Regards, BobF.
"AA19" <AA19@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm running Vista Home Edition. I went to backup the C drive for the
> first
> time and ran out of room on the D Recovery drive. I have since decided to
> back up to online service that had more room. Now, should I/can I/how do
> I
> make room on the D drive? Should I compress it? Should I delete the
> files,
> since I've already back up everything to my online service? How important
> is
> it to have space here? Thanks for helping.

AA19 wrote:

> I'm running Vista Home Edition. I went to backup the C drive for the
> first
> time and ran out of room on the D Recovery drive. I have since decided to
> back up to online service that had more room. Now, should I/can I/how do
> I
> make room on the D drive? Should I compress it? Should I delete the
> files,
> since I've already back up everything to my online service? How important
> is
> it to have space here? Thanks for helping.

You should delete the files you put on the Recovery Partion - and *only* the
files you added. Do nothing else to this part of the hard drive. The
Recovery Partition is put there by the computer mftr. so you can restore
your computer to factory condition. You should not touch the Recovery
Partition for your own stuff.

Malke
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