piook

My guess is that your D drive is a recovery drive for going back to the
original "Factory Settings" on your computer. So it is not intended as a
place to store your Vista Backups. Furthermore, it is probably just a
partition of the only "physical" hard drive in your machine (the same
physical drive as your C: partition) and as such is not a good place for
storing the backups anyway, since if that hard drive fails the back up will
be lost.

You should also read the documentation for the machine to see if you need to
make a restore disk in case of a hard drive failure, since often times the d:
partition is used in place of computer manufacturer's sending an
install/recovery disc with your system.
--
piook is a long standing psuedo-name that resulted from a typo on the old
computer game "Where in the USA IS Carmen Sandiego", and it stuck.



"thumpper" wrote:

> Hi;
> I am having the same problem and posted this question earlier but have not
> received a responce. So Here goes. D drive is almost full and I would like to
> know which files have to store in the D drive. Also, I would like to free up
> the D drive without affecting my computer. I am using Vista Home Premium on a
> dell desk top 410. The D rive reads Recovery D 3.42 MB free of 9.99GB. Does
> the old recovery file get deleted each time a new recovery file is saved?
> Thanks for your time.
> Jim
>
>
> "GreenieLeBrun" wrote:
>
> > Billie wrote:
> > > THE HELP MENU STATES THAT AS THE RECOVERY DRIVE GETS FULL THE OLD
> > > BACKUPS ARE AUTOMATICALLY DELETED BUT IT'S NOT HAPPENING ON MY VISTA
> > > SYSTEM. HOW DO I DELETE THE OLD BACKUPS TO MAKE SPACE ON MY RECOVERY
> > > DRIVE? CAN ANYONE HELP?
> >
> > First of all you calm down and stop shouting, or in other words, turn off
> > the Caps Lock key. Posting in capitals make you question hard to read and is
> > considered by many to ba the same as shouting.
> >
> > Next you tell us what the make, model, and type (laptop, desktop) of machine
> > you have. With that information some one here in etherworld may read your
> > post and be able to offer a solution for your problem.
> >
> >
> >