Satellite L755D - Data drive D partition is full

I have a problem with the Data drive on my Toshiba Satellite L755D. It gets easily full.
As it is now:
(Translated from danish)
Securitycopy of datafiles 40,18 GB
System picture 106,26 GB
Other files 15,08 GB
Free space 71,52 GB
I just erased one of the securitycopies of the datafiles, because there were only 21 MB free space left on the Datadrive.
Why is there so much on the D-drive?
And why does it get full, so often? It is really annoying.
I have had a lot of other computers, but never had that problem before, I got this Toshiba.

> On the D-drive there is:
>080599-TOSH
>HDDRecovery
>WindowsImageBackup
>MediaId(VLC mediafile)
>R16554NH.tag
The 080599-TOSH HDD Recovery is the mentioned HDD recovery folder.
> WindowsImageBackup
This could be an Windows image backup file. Possibly the automatic Windows backup is enabled which creates automatically the system backup on the partition.
Should check the control panel (icon view)-> Backup & Restore
There you should see if backup has been created.
> But is it normal for a Toshiba computer to have a full Data drive?
Normal? If you bought the notebook, the D partition was not full. The size of Toshiba HDD recovery folder is about 12GB-15GB.
By the way: the partition size can be always changed using for example a tool called Gparted.
Of course you can delete the files. But in your case I would create the Recovery Disks and Recovery flash memory stick before deleting the recovery files.
In case you delete the recovery file, the HDD recovery would not function

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