Vista - Recovery D: Drive States Full - Don't Know how to Fix

Hi Everyone,

I'm as illiterate as they come for computers so I'm throwing myself on to your intelligence court - any assistance would be most appreciated. I can't stand to think i'd have to sit on the phone for hours with HP having them trying to figure out how to help me and then messing me up even more. Okay - here's my issue.

I have a HP pavillion slimline s7700e PC vista home premium service pack 1 64 bit thingy.

amd athlon 62X2 dual core processor 3800+ 2.00GHZ.

file system NTFS

I hope this is enough information. this Recovery D thing came up after I tried to do a normal backup - i did not mistakenly try to do a backup to the recovery D drive - i know i specifically did it to the drive that holds the DVD backup disc (e drive?)

it says my recovery D drive is low and to clear out files - but there aren't any files to clean or clear. it says: 4.41MB free of 6.26GB (and it shows it in RED!)

should i just leave this alone and ignore it - or should i take any action? thank you!

Hello Olivesangel, and welcome to Vista Forums.

It sounds like the Recovery Partition is also being used to store System Restore points on. You might check with the tutorial below to make sure that the D: drive is not checked in the System Protection page settings.

System Restore

Hope this helps,
Shawn