Can i format a recovery drive to free up space?
Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Posted by Dennis
(1 messages posted)
I own a hp pavilion slimline s7700n PC. With Vista It is partitioned in 2 drives....c
and d. D is the recovery drive. Recently when i go and explore my pc, D is in red
and has virtually no space left on it. Now I made recovery disks already when i first
purchased the pc. It will put the pc back to orignal factory settings. Can i format
the d...to free up space...or will formatting it eliminate my chance of ever recovering
in case of a virus or crash? Can someone help me? C has lots of free space. But I
dont understand why D has suddenly became so full.....also can i just format it?
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re: Can i format a recovery drive to free up space?
Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Posted by Steve Dunn
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D will always have been nearly full (ie, its not running out of space) - its full
of the recovery files, and they put them in a partition just a bit bigger than the
space they take up. If you are not running out of space on C, just leave things as
they are!
On Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 3:43 pm, Dennis wrote:
>I own a hp pavilion slimline s7700n PC. With Vista It is partitioned in 2 drives....c
>and d. D is the recovery drive. Recently when i go and explore my pc, D is in red
>and has virtually no space left on it. Now I made recovery disks already when i
first
>purchased the pc. It will put the pc back to orignal factory settings. Can i format
>the d...to free up space...or will formatting it eliminate my chance of ever recovering
>in case of a virus or crash? Can someone help me? C has lots of free space. But
I
>dont understand why D has suddenly became so full.....also can i just format it?
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