A Little help will help!

[Stephanie Thore]

Anyone know how to Compress the recovery- Drive D ??
It's just about full.

 

[philo]

Anyone know how to Compress the recovery- Drive D ??
It's just about full.

No need to compress the recovery partition. It always stays the same size.
The comptuer manufacturer set it up
to be just a little larger than the "image" stored there. Making the
partition larger would only have wasted harddrive space.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

Anyone know how to Compress the recovery- Drive D ??
It's just about full.

Right click it, and select Properties. You should see an option to Compress
at the bottom. I'm not sure if it compresses files that are already on the
drive, but it probably does.

Files that are contain data that is already compressed, like .avi, .mp3,
..jpg and .zip files, will not compress much, if at all.

ss.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

No need to compress the recovery partition. It always stays the same size.
The comptuer manufacturer set it up
to be just a little larger than the "image" stored there. Making the
partition larger would only have wasted harddrive space.

Oh, I missed that, that she was talking about a recovery partition, but I
think she meant how to actually compress the partition - not how to change
its size.

ss.

 

[Dave]

If it's a recovery drive, it shouldn't have any more files in it than the
day you purchased the computer. Those files are a snapshot of the system
files on the day you got it. You shouldn't be copying or backing up to it.

 

[forty-nine]

Anyone know how to Compress the recovery- Drive D ??
It's just about full.

Are you getting a message when defragging ?
I wouldn't worry about it.
I have a swap partition with only 9 % free space and get a similar message.

 

[philo]

Oh, I missed that, that she was talking about a recovery partition, but I
think she meant how to actually compress the partition - not how to change
its size.

Well the post was not 100% clear but I think the OP is talking about the
manufacturer's recovery partition...
and if so...it should be left alone

 

[Lang Murphy]

Anyone know how to Compress the recovery- Drive D ??
It's just about full.

If your D drive -is- your manufacturer's recovery partition, I would
strongly recommend against compressing it before consulting the manufacturer
as to whether that is a good idea or not. My guess would be... hmm... not?

Lang