Vista - recovery disc vista

can someone tell what the recovery disc that keeps filling up on my new dell vista is for ? when i try to access its contents it appears empty.

"bluzeboy" wrote:
That makes no sense at all. You're going to have to explain exactly what is
happening.

"bluzeboy" <guest@newsgroup-email.com> wrote in message
news:e7b74bd01824a8b78eb1783a226a2444@newsgroup-gateway.com...The recovery disk (probably D: and may be called the restore disk) is the
partition on the main hard drive where Dell has stored the recovery
information to allow the computer to rebuild if the operating system to a
"from factory state" if it gets trashed. The instructions for your computer
said you should create restore disks (and tells you how) and put them in a
safe place. If the hard drive crashes, and they do frequently, the restore
partition will also die and that is the reason for the recovery disks.

Now, if something is saving information to the restore partition (normally
about 10 GB or so in size) you need to find out what is saving there and
stop it and redirect the save to some where else. Nothing should be saved
to the recovery partition.

Hello Bluzeboy,

Double check to see if System Restore may be turned on for that recovery drive letter to store and create restore point on. If it is, uncheck it the box for that drive to turn it off.

System Restore

Hope this helps,
Shawn

thanks very much LVTravel & Brink for the info this my first time with Vista OS.

You're welcome Bluzeboy. Did you get your problem sorted?

yes

Glad to hear it.