Michael

The D drive is almost certainly the recovery partition from which you
restored back to factory settings. You should not add stuff (i.e. backups)
to this partition.

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The manufactures that leave the restore partition visable should be
inundated with trouble calls till they stop that!
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Easiest thing is to hide the partition from Vista (not from the restore
operation).

Start orb
type computer management
select computer management from program area of list
select storage/disk management

for Disk 0 there should be multiple partitions showing one of which is D
right click it, change drive letters and paths
the D: entry should be highlited, click on Remove the partion will now have
no drive letter and Vista will not see it.

This change can be reversed, no damage to the data in the partition, and the
partition is still available for restore if necessary.

Because Vista no longer sees this partition you will no longer get warnings
about it being full.

As far as backups are concerned you will have to select somewhere else to
backup your files.
I backup to DVD /RW but that is a lot of DVD's. Others backup to external
USB drives, pretty inexpensive nowdays.

Michel

"johnVista" <johnVista@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3A7E855D-2748-46DB-874D-CC3625EE0D38@microsoft.com...
>I made the mistake of backing up my system by letting the backed-up files
>go
> to the D drive, which was the default. I just let it back up all files,
> but
> it was running out of disk space before it could finish.
> Now, I keep getting the message "Low Disk Space" on Drive D at the bottom
> of
> my screen. It lets me 'X' away this message, but it keeps coming back.
> It
> said I could have it clean up this drive to make more space, but when I
> do,
> it then warns that this is the Recovery drive and I shouldn't do it.
> I even did a System Restore back to Factory Settings, and it did restore
> the
> C drive to Factory Settings, but the D drive remained full.
> At least if I could shut off this notification, I would be happy, but
> 'X'ing
> it just makes it come back.
> Any suggestions?