HP recovery drive "D" nearing full.
I recently installed a 500mb SSD drive in place of my old hard drive. I did a system restore to factory oringinal. After doing this I noticed the recovery drive "D" partition was almost full and in red. I deleted the restore points and that took the "D" drive back to green/blue. How do I redirect the recovery points to another drive so I don't get the same problem? Or, is there another solution?
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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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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My hard drive is nearly full but I cant find whats taking up all my hard drive space
I have an intel macbook pro with 500 internal HD.
I have 160gb of music in my itues folder with another 7gb on a previous library, I am unable to find the size info of my applications folder but I susspect it to be around 50gb, however I only have 59 gb of free HD space remaining. How to I find out what is using the remainder od my hard drive space? I have not yet checked my iphoto. where would this be? Is there someway of checking to see what folders are the bigest on my hard drive?
I can's work out why my disk is so full.
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http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/5482/make-system-restore-use-less-space-in-windows-7/
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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!
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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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