E & recovery drive is full!

Just bought a brand new HP Pavilion dv6t-6c00 CTO Entertainment Notebook PC. I am receiving notices that my recovery drive is full and so is my E drive *HP tools* How do I clean these off? The computer will not let me run a backup.

Hi,
You will need to stop whatever is storing or backing-up data to these partitions - although for Vista, the document on the link below should help - as it suggests, make sure that 'Restore Points' are not being created for these partitions and also that Windows Back-up is not accessing them.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01508532&tmp_track_link=ot_recdoc/c01896818/en_...
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My Recovery drive is full.

Hi guys, i just want to ask if its normal that my recovery drive is almost full(106MB free of 15.3GB). Should i clean it? Thanks a lot!

Hi,
That does sound a bit too full - I'd expect you to have around 2Gb free space. See if the suggestions in the document on the link below help.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01508532&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en
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HP Pavilion 15t-n200 (Windows 7 Professional 64-bit) -- Recovery Drive Almost Full

Hello, Everyone:
I just set up my new HP Pavilion 15t-n200 laptop (product number E9Z18AV) yesterday. Other than installing software for my HP Officejet Pro 8600 Premium printer and a free PDF Creator, I added no other software to the laptop. To my big surprise, the D drive (recovery drive) shows that I have used 22.5 GB, leaving only 2.4 GB free!
FYI, the specs for my laptop are:
Intel Core i5-4200U CPU @ 1.60GHz
12 GB system memory
1T hard drive (of which 856 GB is free)
I would appreciate any advice or guidance from forum members to resolve this issue.
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That is how it is shipped. The D: drive is static. It is only used for making restore disks or restoring the system so there is no need to leave free space. The drive that is dynamic (i.e. stuff is being added) is the C:\ drive. You should have lots of space there.

My Recovery Drive is Full, How do I clean it up? (HP Pavilion dv7t-4100 CTO)

Hi, I'm not too comfortable with messing around with the inner workings of my computer, but the Recovery Hard Disk Drive has been slowly filling up for a while now. It is just about full and I was wondering if there was any way for me to clean it up/restore it without messing up my programs and files? I did it once before, but I can't remember how and I'm too scared to mess with it without some kind of instruction.
I have a USB hard drive for making back ups that I use now as a precaution if something goes wrong with cleaning the Recovery Disk.
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If someone could give me some advice, that would be wonderful.

Hi,
See the HP document on the following link regarding this issue - although the document refers o Vista, it also applies to Windows 7.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01508532&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en
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My hp d recovery drive is full how can i clean it up or delete the earlier information

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Where do you have system backups stored?
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My recovery drive is not visible in my hp pavilion g6-2137tx

My problem is very big. I installed ubuntu alongside with windows 7.For that ubuntu created a special drive of 83 gb. After installing ubuntu my recovery drive was just shownig some text files but the recovery drive was full and still there..
so i decided to delete ubuntu so i went to disk management and formated that 83 gb partition but after that my laptop was not able to boot...It was not starting and just showed an error" no such partition".So i installed windows 8 from a disk.After the installation recovery partition is missing and it is not visible on "my computer".I think that i still have my recovery drive because my total partion is 463 gp and since my laptop is equiped with 500gb hard disk. Is there any way so that i can recover my partition and get back to original windows 7 which came with my laptop in the begining..
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HI mohit12393,
Thank you for your query.
Reo is correct, your Recovery Manager was wiped when you installed from the disk. You do have the option to use your Windows restore, for your backups. Using Microsoft System Restore (Windows 8) You can also use third party software, to create an ISO image, which could be used to restore the computer, back to the time you created the image Here are some examples of ISO backup software.ex amples of ISO burning software.
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Low Disk Space Recovery Drive D

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A useful utility for viewing all the files on your PC is called Free Commander, on the link below, as it displays folders that the Operating System normally hides and has a good search function.
http://www.snapfiles.com/php/download.php?id=107872&a=7122339&tag=601108&loc=10
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After doing this, make sure that Windows Backup and Restore is directed to a new location.
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Recovery drive (d) too full??

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eyemchase,
Welcome to the HP Forum.
Don't worry about it. Do not add anything, delete anything, or edit anything in Recovery.
The Recovery Partition is best and happy the way it is.
Recovery is used to restore your computer should it fail; the partition has within it all the tools necessary to rebuild the main Operating System the way it was when the computer was new and clean.
What is the Recovery (D Hard Drive?
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Unless you really need to, I recommend that you do not remove the Recovery partition, that is, do not delete it. Sometimes people do this after having made their Recovery discs (you have made your Recovery backups, right?) -- and then, these same people regret having removed the partition later. Sometimes people delete the partition by accident before having made their Recovery backups. Sad.
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HP recovery drive "D" nearing full.

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Hi, Windows should not be creating System Restore points for the Recovery D partition, so you can just turn this feature off for that particular partition. See the document on the following link for a walk through on this procedure. http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03736755 Regards, DP-K

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A window keeps popping up lately, saying my recovery D drive is full. Can I remove anything that doesn't belond
there, and what would those things be? Maybe accidentaly back up files?

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http://www.snapfiles.com/php/download.php?id=107872&a=7122339&tag=601108&loc=10
This is a zipped file. If you don't have an extraction utility installed, download and install 7-Zip which can be used to open this so that you can run the installer.
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All the "drives" you see are part of Windows 8 and HP's factory installation. The recovery partition is designed to return the computer to a factory like state and nothing more. You cannot delete the D: drive "HP Recovery" partition and recreate an updated recovery image. The following image shows the factory installed partitions on my HP 13 Split x2;
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hello, so here is the story...
i bought my iMac about a little more than half year ago and i really like this mac. About 3 months ago, my computer started popping up me hard drive is full messages, and i did not really bother to delete any files. Because i have been using computers before this one, and i have never used up all the spaces before and the computer i have used before had even smaller hard drives. At the time i did not think it is going to effect my usage of this computer so i kept on using it. After about a month, while i was using my computer, it suddenly shut down and when i restart it my desktop is a plain blue background, with no wallpaper or any icons. Then i tried to delete some files, but when i try to do so, i can not even open up my applications or any kind of window. The only thing that i can open is safari, so right now i can only serve the internet, can not even watch any videos or movies online...
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In all your use of computers, did you learn how to recover your backups and have a good backup strategy in place?
Or are you going to need help now on backups, recoverying files (already some good threads to just re-read), and rebuild your hard drive.
For starters you will need one or more external drives, and install OS X on one of them and use one or part of one for recovering files.
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Pick up some USB/FW drives:
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HP Pavilion Laptop: Unable to open files, error message and "Recovery" drive appeared

My fairly new HP Pavilion AR5B1425 laptop suddenly displays a big red x and an error message "documents.library-ms (or whatever file I'm trying to access) is no longer working" and is displaying a "recovery" drive listed as "D." My kids were using my computer, and hubby thinks they inadvertently reset my hard drive or something. Any ideas?

Hey reedmiarecki,
Welcome to the HP Support Forums!
With the error message that you are getting, your only option would be to do a factory reset of your computer. If you do need assistance on how to complete a factory reset of your computer, please provide me with the full model number. This will allow me to provide you with specific steps. If you need assistance in finding the model number, please take a look at the following document Guide to finding your product number.
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