E: drive full and trying to back up! driving me craaaazy please help

hey! my laptop is like 5 days old! i put all my old photos and music from itunes onto disks from my old laptop and put them onto this one. everything was fine until sunday! the laptop started a back up! i got a messege saying that the disk E: drive was full and to delete files ect... or i could change the settings! i tryed to change the back up to do this onto disk. but iv been told there should be a place to do this on the laptop and the the wall partions may not be set rite. i also keep getting a warning that my E: drive is full and to make space! i have phoned hp support and they say talk to the place i got the laptop from and so i did they said i could sent it back but that means removing everything! i have googled and seen loads of people with this prob so is there a way to fix this? someone please help its drivng me crazy! i have a hp pavilion g6 series. thaaaaaaaanks x

You need to re-run the backup program to unselect the E drive.
As a sidebar, it is actually unwise to backup to the same physical hard drive. You need to realize that you have a single hard drive , that is partitioned in hard disc C,D,E. If that physical hard drive were to crash, cease to function. burn-out, etc, you lose all of it. It is not separate drives.
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On the G5, I am getting the message "Backup volume is read only" on some days and backup volume full on others. This is after 25 backups.
I don't want to eliminate files from the backup. Isn't TM supposed to be smart enough to make space for new incremental backups?
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