HP tx1250ea laptop Error Message "Low Disk Space" D drive (HP Recovery) is apparantly full

I have accessed the D drive but the only folder that appear to be there is the HP Recovery. In addition to the Recovery folder I was expecting to see other Windows files that could be safely deleted. I accessed the drive via Free Commander as recommended earlier in this forum. Not really computer savvy so would very much appreciate some help
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The recovery partition is designed to be very full since it remains the same.
You can simply remove the drive letter from the D: partition and the message will go away. This will not affect the ability to use the recovery partition by the F11 recovery option; it will just be unlettered in Windows.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Change-add-or-remove-a-drive-letter
You can also just ignore the warning

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