jack

Thanx Mic for your input, it has been helpful. Now if I could just get vista
to stop whining about this drive being full.

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Long days pleasent nights


"Michael Palumbo" wrote:

>
>
> "jack" <jack@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F5320E95-F31E-4B9C-A9DD-6CFEC6267A97@microsoft.com...
> > 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.
> > --
> > 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
> >>
>
> Is it a Dell?
>
> If it is, this IS the recovery drive.
>
> This is a partition that has a compressed image of the C: drive in its
> original, from the factory, setup. OS, drivers, software, etc.
>
> If your system is 'crawling' there is something else causing it. A
> non-system partition should have no effect on your system performance as
> long as there is plenty of space for the swap file on your primary
> partition.
>
> Dell has been using this method of recovery for quite some time, on XP
> systems the partition is hidden.
>
> I have recently worked on a few Dell systems (Vista pre-installed) adding
> RAM, simple setup, etc. and noted on each of the three machines I worked on
> there was a D: partition present, and it was almost full, and it did indeed
> contain the recovery information.
>
> http://www.dellcommunity.com/support...d=80290#M30298
>
> Have a look at the above post on the Dell forums, it confirms what myself,
> and piook have both said about the D: partition on Vista loaded Dell
> computers.
>
> Thankfully, it also explains WHY the partition is visible
>
> Mic
>