Vista Recovery
Posted by admin on Feb 2nd, 2007
I just got a new PC yesterday (HP A1740N; 2GB RAM; 320GB HD; Win Vista Home Prem). Once I got thru all the 'First Time Start' stuff, I got the HP Total Care Advisor screen, which told me that my D: drive 'Recovery (D:)' was full. Looking in Windows Explorer with show hidden files turned on, the PC shows 2 drives. HP (C:) with Vista and the standard new PC junk. It has 276GB free and 14.9GB used. Recovery (D:) has 11.2MB free and 6.25 used. D drive has MediaID.bin at 1kb; pcdr (config settings) at 1 kb; and Recovery (file) with no size listed. If I click on Recovery, I get a warning message saying Do not delete or alter... blah blah blah, and it won't allow me in. Properties show Recovery to have 2 files, 0 folders and being 184 kb in size.So, I've got a full drive and no way to do anything about it. I could really use some help and/or suggestions. Thanks! Susan
Feb 5th, 2007 at 03:24 pm
I think all HP PCs put the recovery files on that D: partition. It's set to the size it needs to be to hold those files. You really don't want to mess with it until you've read the HP instructions on what it is and how to use it."Winnowill"
Feb 11th, 2007 at 07:51 am
Just for more info: I went into Disk Management and decreased the size of drive C, figuring that I could then add that space to drive D. I didn't work. It only gives me an option to decrease the size of D, but not to increase it.Sue
Feb 14th, 2007 at 04:19 am
Hi everyone!Problem solved!The D: Recovery partition is indeed only intended to hold the stuff needed to return the PC to factory specs. However, BackUp also defaults to saving in D drive, which it shouldn't. So, while I had turned on 'Show hidden files', I hadn't turned on 'show protected files'. Once I did that, I found the attempted/failed BackUp file. Once that's deleted (AFTER I make a full set of Recovery Disks) then my D drive will be back to where it should be.Sue