jack

Mic, I think you may be wrong.
I to am having trouble Freeing space on my rcovery drive. Vista explians to
delete old restore points but does not tell me how. With this drive full my
system is crawling.
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Long days pleasent nights


"Michael Palumbo" wrote:


>
>
> "piook" <piook@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E486890C-416D-4EE8-9301-15851A4084B7@microsoft.com...
> > 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.
> >
> >
>
> I'm going to confirm your guess, Piook.
>
> This is the recovery drive to do a system restore to factory new.
>
> IT SHOULD NOT BE DELETED, FORMATTED, OR MESSED WITH IN ANY WAY! Unless of
> course you have full install disks for all the software that came with your
> system. :-)
>
> Dell will provide complete disks, but they usually expect you to pay for
> them, so make the recovery disks that it should be bugging you to make and
> leave the D: drive alone.
>
> In the past Dell always marked this drive as hidden but for some reason on
> the Vista pre-loads they haven't.
>
> Mic
>