Okay, here is a pic of my hard disks.
My backups go into my Recovery Drive, and it is nearly full. I repeatedly uninstall prgrams that I don't need, and delete old backups. Why is it still full? How do I make more space? My OS drive is so BIG, but I have next to nothing in it! Are backups supposed to be going into C drive?
Recovery Drive almost full: Should backups be in D drive or in the C drive?
- 13 Jul 2010 #1My System Specs
Recovery Drive almost full: Should backups be in D drive or in the C drive?
- 13 Jul 2010 #2
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My System SpecsRe: Recovery Drive almost full: Should backups be in D drive or in the C drive?
Not to worry. The recovery is probalby just restore points. As you need more space the oldest point is deleted and a new one made. If you want to make space. Turn off the System Restore, deleting all points. Then make a new point, you will need it in case of problems.
- 13 Jul 2010 #3My System Specs
Re: Recovery Drive almost full: Should backups be in D drive or in the C drive?
I tried to delete restore points, but is said I had none in my D drive. Look.
- 13 Jul 2010 #4
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My System SpecsRe: Recovery Drive almost full: Should backups be in D drive or in the C drive?
Download this and take a pic of your d drive
Disktective, freeware disk-space reporting tool for Windows
- 13 Jul 2010 #5My System Specs
Re: Recovery Drive almost full: Should backups be in D drive or in the C drive?
Here, is this what you need?
- 13 Jul 2010 #6
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My System SpecsRe: Recovery Drive almost full: Should backups be in D drive or in the C drive?
That helps quite a bit. The biggest portion is from Dell. That is there in case of emergency you can restore to factory specs. So 1/2 the problem is solved.
Most of the rest are your personal documents, etc. Click on the computer icon on desktop, click on d drive then click on Rachael. You will probably recognize what they are, if you are Rachael.
- 13 Jul 2010 #7
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My System SpecsRe: Recovery Drive almost full: Should backups be in D drive or in the C drive?
Remove all your own data from recovery partition, no data should be add to this partition for Dell OEM data only.
- 13 Jul 2010 #8My System Specs
Re: Recovery Drive almost full: Should backups be in D drive or in the C drive?
Originally Posted by richc46 
Okay, so should I move my files, or just delete unneeded ones...?
- 14 Jul 2010 #9
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My System SpecsRe: Recovery Drive almost full: Should backups be in D drive or in the C drive?
Did you check the files? Are you certain as to what they are and that they are not important for the OS or for backup?
- 14 Jul 2010 #10My System Specs
Re: Recovery Drive almost full: Should backups be in D drive or in the C drive?
My files only take up 2.17 GB, because it is only my backup files. Nothing else that is mine is in the Recovery Drive. So I should move them to the OS drive? Do I just copy and paste the folder into the OS, or is there a certain process? Because when I try to change the settings for my backup, it says I can only put them in my Recovery Drive or my DVD drive???
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