Recovery disk full

[Dennis Stephens]

I have a DELL laptop running VISTA. I have noticed that my D (recovery )
drive is almost full. I have gone through the routine of trying to erase all
unnecessary files several times. The drive is still almost completely full
despite all my efforts. The wastebasket is empty, I have deleted all
duplicated files from, nothing works. The computer seems to only use the D
drive and the C drive is more than 70% free space.
What should I do next?

 

[Meinolf Weber [MVP-DS]]

Hello Dennis,

This is a Vista related question and should be better posted in a Vista NG.

Make sure you have neabled the hidden folders to see all files. Additional
check the shadow copies on the machine, maybe they are filling up your machine.
They are stored in the c:\System Volume Information folder.

Best regards

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[Gordon]

I have a DELL laptop running VISTA. I have noticed that my D (recovery )
drive is almost full. I have gone through the routine of trying to erase
all unnecessary files several times. The drive is still almost completely
full despite all my efforts. The wastebasket is empty, I have deleted all
duplicated files from, nothing works. The computer seems to only use the D
drive and the C drive is more than 70% free space.
What should I do next?

Why are you doing ANYTHING with the Recovery partition? Are you backing up
there?
The Recovery Partition is there to enable restoration of your computer to
factory specs.
You have probably borked it.
I hope you made a Recovery DVD from it...
Did you READ the User guide that came with your computer?

 

[Victek]

I have a DELL laptop running VISTA. I have noticed that my D (recovery )
drive is almost full. I have gone through the routine of trying to erase
all unnecessary files several times. The drive is still almost completely
full despite all my efforts. The wastebasket is empty, I have deleted all
duplicated files from, nothing works. The computer seems to only use the D
drive and the C drive is more than 70% free space.
What should I do next?

..
A common reason for this is Vista is automatically sending backups to D:
Start Backup and check the configuration.

 

[Gordon]

.
A common reason for this is Vista is automatically sending backups to D:
Start Backup and check the configuration.

Err the user has to set UP the backup - there's no "automatic" about it...

 

[Victek]

I have a DELL laptop running VISTA. I have noticed that my D (recovery )

Err the user has to set UP the backup - there's no "automatic" about it...

--

I haven't studied this in detail and don't presume to fully understand it.
That said I have seen more then one Vista machine where the backups are sent
to D:\ which is the recovery partition on preloaded HP's, Compaqs, etc. The
user is made aware of this when they begin receiving low disk space warning
messages. Initially they have no idea what is causing it which makes me
think they did not intentionally configure the backup location, but like I
said I'm not sure.

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

I have a DELL laptop running VISTA. I have noticed that my D (recovery )
drive is almost full. I have gone through the routine of trying to erase
all unnecessary files several times. The drive is still almost completely
full despite all my efforts. The wastebasket is empty, I have deleted all
duplicated files from, nothing works. The computer seems to only use the D
drive and the C drive is more than 70% free space.
What should I do next?

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Dennis

No decent backup program will EVER point a backup save to the primary boot
drive. It looks for any drive/partition which does NOT have the working
operating system installed. In your case, it has found D which is your OEM
recovery partition.

If you want to back up using Windows Backup or any other backup utility, you
will have to buy another drive, preferably external.

If you only want to back up pics and music, burn them to a CD/DVD using your
burning software

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Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience
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[brose]

Was this question ever answered for you? From what I can see in the replies
there was never really an answer given and I am having the EXACT same
problem. I would greatly appreciate if you did if you could share how you
did. Thanks

 

[DL]

Then what have you configured / setup to write files to the recovery
partition, nothing, by default, writes files to the recovery partition.

BTW you cross posted to a whole range of irrelevent groups

 

[Bill Daggett]

Was this question ever answered for you? From what I can see in the replies
there was never really an answer given and I am having the EXACT same
problem. I would greatly appreciate if you did if you could share how you
did. Thanks

You should NOT be using the recovery partition for ANYTHING. It is
reserved for files needed to fix your system if it becomes unusable.

Stop using it, remove what you put there.

That is your solution.