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Why do I keep running out of disk space?

I Use Vista Poll: Can you help on "low disk space on RECOVERY" problem?

  • Starting a few weeks ago, I keep getting an error message about my Disk space running low for RECOVERY and that a complete backup cannot be done because of that. My hard drive has over 200 gigs free at the moment. I click on the error icon because it says that will let me free up disk space, but there is none to free up using that option. I knew I had this Back Up option, but had never really understood it, though I know it's relatively small. I just let it go on auto. lol Can you advise on how I should proceed to free up RECOVERY disk space? (My pc capitalizes recovery, so I am too). B.Q. Am I correct in thinking that hard drive space is completely different and has no connection to this disk space issue? Thanks.

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    do this to recover disk space, run the disc clean up, or '' clean manager '' after it calculates how much space you can free up,click '' more options '' near the bottom it gives you an option to clean up unneeded system restore points, they take up a lot of space, you should be able to recover a lot of gigs, also run the disk clean up as well to save even more.

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I hope you are refering to the recovery partition which comes with a branded PC / laptop well unless there is a special tools or backup software that you are using, when you are running vista , or it does not need to access the drive I referring to drive such as D: Recovery http://www.windowsreference.com/images/vista%20management.png You can just disable it. Choose Start–>Control Panel to open Control Panel. Click the System Maintenance link, and then click Administrative Tools to open the Administrative tools folder. Click Computer Management to open the Computer Management window. In the Computer Management pane, expand Storage, and then click Disk Management. on the Recovery partition right click -change letter and drive parts - Remove. In this way vista will not access the drive. Well the drive is still avaiable if you need to do a factory restore from boot up hope this helps

Pushthebutton

I had happen when I was married. My ex was going to some freaky sites and well..virus. I had to do a complete restore. Pain in the tush!

blah

I think you have a virus. Recovery will delete everything you have had since you put a recovery date. Which means if you never set a date when your system can recover at that point, it will go back to factory settings, which means everything that you have done on that computer is gone.

Soy_el_Guapo

Disk space and hard drive space is the same. You have a separate partition for recovery, you might want to check that.

smgray99

Run a scandisk. Right click on your drive in My Computer (Windows Explorer) then properties the tools tab and click check now. If you are given an option to schedule on restart, answer YES. It is more of an HDD issue.

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