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re: Recovery fulls up D: drive Monday, February 11, 2008 at 11:45 am Posted by Charlie Hadden (854 messages posted) Running Vista on a 10 gig H/D would not be recommended under any circumstances! In that you have I would definitely not use Restore at all. Go to Start/settings/control panel/system/system protection and turn it off. Also make sure you aren't saving temp INTERNET files. That takes up just as much space. Then go buy a larger H/D. You can by 150 to 300 gigs of drive for under $100 dollars now. I wouldn't run XP on only 10 gig. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Recovery fulls up D: drive Monday, February 11, 2008 at 2:02 pm Posted by JSanders (251 messages posted) That D: drive is the recovery partition, and it's going to be practically full. You should create a set of recovery disks and then you can delete that partition. If you decide to keep the partition, you need to not add or delete anything off of that drive, as it may screw up a potential system recovery operation should the need arise. You can also order a set of recovery disks from Sony for your laptop if you don't want to create them yourself. On Monday, February 11, 2008 at 6:14 am, Todd Fulton wrote: >After just two months of having a laptop with Vista Home Premium, the Vista Recovery >program has filled up the D Drive. This drive is 10Gig. I have tried to delete all >the backups except the most recent but this only removed about 1 Gig of info. What >could possibly be using the other 9Gig of disc space. Thank You [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Recovery fulls up D: drive Monday, February 11, 2008 at 3:59 pm Posted by Todd Fulton (2 messages posted) Thanks for your help, the 10Gig is just the D drive, the C drive is 138Gig and runs Vista. I guess I was a little confused on what the D drive was set up for, I guess Gateway set it up to be able to return the laptop back to original status. Maybe I need to look into using the DVD-RW to do the Restore stuff on and not worry about the D drive. Again, thank yo for your help. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Recovery fulls up D: drive Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 8:21 am Posted by Charlie Hadden (854 messages posted) If your D: is ONLY for your recovery files (not a bad idea), then just go to your roecovery settings and set the limit to something like 9.5 gig and forget it. It will limit it self and automatically del. the oldest recovery files. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum