Recovery Drive D

[Guest]

My recovery drive D is full. I made my backup discs, set Restore Point
however the popup message comes up constantly to backup my files or empty the
Recyle Bin which I do. Is this a quirk in Vista? I have performed every
task it has requested but it bothers me when I see that message that I am
"running out of disc space." Any suggestions please? Thanks

 

[Cal Bear '66]

Your D drive is a factory installed recovery partition?

To turn of the low disk space alerts, go to Computer Management, Disk Management
and unassign a drive letter. This will not harm the data on the factory
installation recovery partition.

 

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My recovery drive D is full. I made my backup discs, set Restore Point
however the popup message comes up constantly to backup my files or empty
the
Recyle Bin which I do. Is this a quirk in Vista? I have performed every
task it has requested but it bothers me when I see that message that I am
"running out of disc space." Any suggestions please? Thanks

And your computer is a...?

You shouldn't **** with the recovery partition, you shouldn't even have a
letter mapped to it unless you have certain POS computers that give you a
letter to a more or less full drive to start with.


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[Guest]

How interesting! I bleed blue & gold also. Go Bears!

Yes it is a factory installation. Before I jump in and do this do I need to
assign another letter or just leave it blank and use CD-RW as before? This
sounds much easier and I can stop running around looking at more computer
hard drives for the time being. Thank you so much

Marlene

 

[Cal Bear '66]

Dear Old Blue (assuming you are already an alumna),

If you have already made Recovery Disks (DVDs?) from the factory restore
partition D:, you can delete the partition and expand C; to take up the space.

However, since it is such a small space (usually ~ 10GB, or so) you can just
leave it alone as an extra backup route. You just leave the backup letter
blank. Should you need to access the partition later, you can again assign the
drive letter.

This should not affect your ability to use CD-RWs in general. You are probably
only allowed to make one set of Factory Restore disks anyway.

Note that factory restore is not the same thing as Window's System Restore.
Factory restore will restore your system to a factory shipped condition, any
changes you have made or any programs you have installed will be lost. Window's
System Restore will roll back your system to a previous state and will only undo
(hopefully) any changes made since that Restore Point was created.

Good luck, and Hail California!

 

[Guest]

Dear bleeding Bear,

Still have a problem; error message: "Insuffient storage to create shadow
copy or other shadow copy data (0x8004231F)." I followed your instructions
as to removing the drive letter and am using DVD-R to backup files. You are
right, I was able to make the factory setting backup disks but still not able
to backup my files. Any other ideas? Thank you, Go Bears

 

[Cal Bear '66]

Wow, you would have to get that one.

The only thing I could find after searching the net was 1) Make sure you have
not included the D: drive in the sources for backing up files and 2) Perhaps
McAfee would cause this error.

You are trying to backup files from your C: drive to DVDs, right?

 

[Guest]

After removing the letter "D" my only option for backup was Drive E with a
DVD-R and still the same problem. I don't have the option to use C Drive. So
it looks like I am trying to back up on the same drive which isn't possible,
correct? Yeah, something isnt right here. Looks like I need to write
McAfee. Thanks for your help.

Marlene

 

[Cal Bear '66]

I found this which worked for another person with the same problem and error
message:


"1) Use the "System Protection" tab of the System control panel and make sure
that D: is not enabled for automatic restore points

2) Use "Change Backup Settings" in "Windows Backup" to make sure that D: is not
enabled for backups"

 

[Guest]

Thanks Bear! Before I received your email I found some info on
windows/support/backup and apparently the Recovery D is NOT to be used to
back up disks at any time. This info was not provided at the time I made my
first back up for the Factory Settings. I just finished making a backup DVD!
whew- after screwing around for 10 hours trying to correct this. Now I need
to delete the info on Recovery D so it will be available for what it was
designed to do. Thanks you so very much blue bear.

 

[Cal Bear '66]

I'm very, very happy you finally solved your problem.

It seems a LOT of people are confusing the factory RECOVERY partition with
System Recovery, File Backup and Complete PC Backup.

I hope deleting the D: partition and expanding the C: partition to take up the
space goes smoothly.

P.S. I just got my new Cal Student Store catalog yesterday -- lots of neat
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GO BEARS!

 

[Guest]

I want to clear the info on Recovery D Partition which I had inadvertantly
used to back up disks. Is that possible? I had talked with HP tech for 2
hours (mostly on hold while he tried to figure out what to do). Bear, you
seem to know more than these guys! I await your answer, thanks.

Go Bears!

 

[Cal Bear '66]

Do you mean you want to completely get rid of the D partition and reclaim the
space, or do you want to just clear the files that you added when attempting to
use it for a backup destination?

If you have already made factory Restore DVDs (they also can be ordered from HP
for a very reasonable cost) and if you want to completely delete the D
partition, that is very easy: Control Panel (Classic view) > Administrative
Toots > Computer Management > highlight Disk Management in the left pane > right
click in the right pane on the D partition and select Delete Volume.

If your empty space is now to the right of your C volume in the graphical
display of your disks, you can right click on the C volume and select Extend
Volume to add the empty space to your C volume.

If you want to just delete any files that your backup attempt added to the D
volume, that would be more difficult. (I know that on my HP with XP installed,
the D volume appeared to be just one big file.) You would probably have to go to
HP to get a list of the files they put in their recovery partition, or I could
tell you what file my Vista File Backup or my Vista Complete PC Backup creates.

 

[wat824]

I have several files on the D: drive that I am not sure which are important
or where they came from. Does vista automatically assign those files there
if shutdown improperly? How can I identify what is junk and what is needed

 

[John Barnes]

Vista does not assign files to a drive other than the Vista drive if shut
down improperly. The Recycle.bin, Recycler and System Volume Information
are the only files generally placed on a storage volume by Vista. Volumes
important to Vista will either not be deleteable or will be restored by
Vista.