Recovery Disc D

[melizabeth]

Could you direct me to a Microsoft Community where someone may be able to
answer the following:

This morning I had a little icon in the right lower taskbar which informs me
that Recovery Disc D is almost full. Do you have any idea if or how I could
go about giving Disc D more space (I would get it from Disc C I guess
because that has 186 GB free to use).

 

[Mary Sauer]

This forum has help
http://forums.techguy.org/hardware/663415-recovery-drive-d-red-almost.html

 

[melizabeth]

Thanks... some people there say it is not important and that it will never
fill up and your system won't crash. Others say backup to an external
drive, still others say buy software and make an image of the C drive. I'll
have to decide... but thanks for the info.

ms

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[Gordon]

Thanks... some people there say it is not important and that it will never
fill up and your system won't crash. Others say backup to an external
drive, still others say buy software and make an image of the C drive.
I'll have to decide... but thanks for the info.

The Recovery Partition is there to enable you to recover your computer to
Factory-gate specification. DO NOT MESS WITH IT. DO NOT BACKUP DATA TO IT.
If you have set a backup utility to do so then you need to change that NOW.

 

[melizabeth]

So, if what you are saying is that I should go to 'Backup Status and
Configuration' and where it says, at the bottom 'Automatic backup is
currently on' - I should choose 'Turn off'?

If I do that, should I then go to 'Properties' and use 'Disc cleanup'?

Thanks for your help.
ms

 

[Gordon]

So, if what you are saying is that I should go to 'Backup Status and
Configuration' and where it says, at the bottom 'Automatic backup is
currently on' - I should choose 'Turn off'?

No don't turn it off, you need to change the location to which the backups
are being made. I'm afraid I can't help you there as I don't use Windows
Backup.....

 

[Terry Farrell]

I take backup seriously as it would be a disaster if I lost all my data. My
PC has more than a decade of emails and documents, as well as photos from
way back beyond.

My recommendation is to get an external USB/eSATA hard drive (at least twice
the size of your internal hard disk) and a good backup utility such as True
Image Home edition. Make a regular monthly or fortnightly image (that is a
mirror of your hard drive so that if the drive fails, you can get a new
drive and copy it back so that the system runs as though nothing had
happened). I'd also set up regular Incrementals (backing up only changes
made since the previous image was made). How frequently depends on how much
you use your system and how important it is if you lose any current work.
Then when you next make your full image, you can delete all the old
incrementals.

 

[melizabeth]

OK. I already have the external drive so now I need 'True Image Home
Edition' which I will buy next time when I go to Staples. Thanks so much.

This brings up another question about the message I get from the icon in the
lower right taskbar which says the backup was aborted or incomplete. How
can I get rid of that? And will Disc D automatically purge all the backups
I have added there or shall I just leave it indicating in red - FULL.

Thanks again...