Low Disk Space every time I startup?

[Cal Bear '66]

I would call Dell and ask them why they set up your drive with such a small
partition and if it is safe to delete it. And even though you have an OS disk,
how are you to reinstall the pre-installed applications. I'm sure that most of
the pre-installed applications are crap, but did you get Works, Office (not a
trial version), or other useful software applications that you want to continue
using should you have to format and reinstall the OS?


"dell's own factory reset installed on the computer"

Sorry I don't know what you mean by "factory reset installed on the computer"?
Should you reformat the disk, you will loose everything on the disk.


If you are sure that your backup files are the only thing that this partition
contains, you should get a USB external hard drive to use exclusively for your
for backups. 10GB is practically useless for backups and if the disk dies, you
will also loose your backups. Then after you backup the files on this partition
to the external drive, you can delete it and expand C to take up the space and
get rid of the low space warnings

I do not own a Dell and have not owned one since Restore partitions became
common, but on my HP the Restore partition had what looked like just one big
file. Discounting the size of your backups, how much free space should be on
the drive?

I think Dell can answer all your questions.

 

[Guest]

thanks for a good response cal bear 66
**dell's own factory reset installed on the computer**is a set of keys you
press
on the key board to revert the computer back to how it was out of the factory.
basically wiping everything off documents,spreadsheets etc but leaves the
operating system ok.(i had -factory reset- with my tiny pc but on a disc).
the D:drive was 6.37GB free of 9.99GB WITH NO BACKUPS (there was a few
folders already installed on it).
(i've got a os cd and -factory reset-why??).
once again many thanks for help and time.
paul.

 

[Cal Bear '66]

Dell is the only computer manufacturer that ships a Vista DVD with their new
computers. (Enables you to do repair options and a truly "clean" install of
Vista that are unavailable to those with only a factory Recovery partition or
factory Recovery DVDs.)

This "factory reset" set of key strokes enables you to access the information on
the Recovery partition which will wipe the C drive clean and reinstall the OS,
pre-installed applications and settings to a factory shipped condition.

Get an external USB drive. Backup your old backups on the D drive to the USB
drive. Use disk management to delete the drive letter of the D drive to get rid
of the low space warnings. If Dell did not provide you with an option to make
DVDs of the data on the D drive, just leave it alone.

10 GB of disk space nowadays is not really that much space.

Good luck.

 

[KickinChicken]

You may find answers here http://www.dellcommunity.com/ .
Look for the Navigation Pane, then select desktop or notebooks.
Guarantee some other Dell user has the same issue you have.
I have an XPS desktop, but I format all drives and do clean installs, so I
have no idea how they do set ups.

Dell also has a Vista Forum

 

[Guest]

***TRYING TO PUT THIS POST IN FOR WEEKS NOW,WOULD'NT SIGN ME IN LOL***
***Ok got it fixed many thanks.***
“The low space warnings by Retired bill was from the very first post in this
thread.â€

First i checked help and support centre again putting something like Drive
in the search bar.
There was information there on how to DELETE BACKED UP FILES you previously
done.
To locate the file (which was explained) i doubled clicked my RECOVERY
DRIVE icon and from there was a folder named after my computer name which i
opened.
A main folder called “BACKUP SET†and within that many folders with
different files.
So what i did was a FULL BACKUP first to get this main folder again (BACKUP
SET) then deleted the
First one. (which is different from simply backing up new editions of any
document you done after your last backup).
I went to computer management it says Drive is a primary partition.
My Drive stands at 5.25GB free of 9.99GB that’s one whole FULL BACKUP and
the other files that was already there in my guess i think that i will need
to delete the backups on my Drive once a month.
Thanking all for much help.
Paul.

 

[Bucky]

I've read all the discussions but no one has offered a solution to cleanup
the Recovery Drive and get Disk Cleanup to Work. Does anyone know how to do
either?

 

[LckyPlyr45]

hello, I am having the same trouble, but mine is on "recovery disc c" and I
have another disc that isnt even 1/4 full, I have uninstalled a lot of
things, tried defragmenting, tried to delete things in the recycle bin, and
still I am getting that message. I have asked a few people and someone told
me, that the pop up saying it is full, has like, NO space on the recovery
disc, and I must have somehow, "partioned" or "split" something..... I guess
I am going to take my computer to Best Buy next week and see if they can fix
it and/or tell me what it is....I tried to scroll thru the posts and see if
anyone had answered your question, and I didnt see an answer, so I thought I
would ask you if maybe I had missed the answer in there somewhere, did anyone
ever tell you exactly what to do to fix the problem????? if not, let me know,
and I will let you know what the "experts" tell me at the store, because I
just dont know what else to do...... thanks!!!!