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  1. 11 Jan 2010 #1


    owena neal

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    Recovery Drive

    Low disk space is showing on my revovery drive (D) what do I do if anytning. Or what will happewn if D drive is full?


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    Re: Recovery Drive

    If you are talking about the drive containing the System Restore points, it merely deltes the oldest one to make room for the newest

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    Re: Recovery Drive

    I expect Windows Backup is storing backups on your recovery partition.

    It does that because it is the only drive it can find [ apart from the Vista partition(s) ]

    Either use external media to store your backups - or turn it off.

    You can't afford to damage the recovery partition.

    See Step 15 here:
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