Greetings Michael,
I just posted (3/14) a question under Vista General related to the subject
above and your response.
Would you please look at my post and make comments?
Thanks
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FGA-P.E.
"Michael" wrote:
Quote:
> 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.
>
> Begin Soapbox
> The manufactures that leave the restore partition visable should be
> inundated with trouble calls till they stop that!
> End Soapbox
>
> 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@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:3A7E855D-2748-46DB-874D-CC3625EE0D38@xxxxxx Quote:
> >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?
>
>