jack said:
Mic, I think you may be wrong.
I to am having trouble Freeing space on my rcovery drive. Vista explians
to
delete old restore points but does not tell me how. With this drive full
my
system is crawling.
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Long days pleasent nights
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Is it a Dell?
If it is, this IS the recovery drive.
This is a partition that has a compressed image of the C: drive in its
original, from the factory, setup. OS, drivers, software, etc.
If your system is 'crawling' there is something else causing it. A
non-system partition should have no effect on your system performance as
long as there is plenty of space for the swap file on your primary
partition.
Dell has been using this method of recovery for quite some time, on XP
systems the partition is hidden.
I have recently worked on a few Dell systems (Vista pre-installed) adding
RAM, simple setup, etc. and noted on each of the three machines I worked on
there was a D: partition present, and it was almost full, and it did indeed
contain the recovery information.
http://www.dellcommunity.com/suppor...=vista&message.id=30298&query.id=80290#M30298
Have a look at the above post on the Dell forums, it confirms what myself,
and piook have both said about the D: partition on Vista loaded Dell
computers.
Thankfully, it also explains WHY the partition is visible
Mic