'HDD Recovery' folder size increases on "D" partition

I'm the sattelite Toshiba laptop owner, lately I've noticed that my (unused) D: disk is out of space and after close analysis I've figured out that the folder 'HDDRecovery' size is >200GB.
I do not want to remove the folder or delete image files within as I need recovery functionality but I do not have any idea how to manage recovery process to decrease the volume.
Do you have any idea how to tackle this?
Wojtek

Hi
It sounds strange to me that the HDD recovery folder size would in increase up to 200GB continually. Probably notebook stores the back-up files automatically in this folder but Im not quite sure why
However, I recommend you to create an recovery medium (recovery disk) using the Toshiba
Recovery Medium Creator (this software preinstalled on the Toshiba notebook).
The usage of Recovery Disk (or recovery USB stick) would set the notebook back to factory settings and even if you would delete the HDD recovery folder or the whole partition, this partition and these files would be created again.
Hope this info could be helpful for you.

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