Recovery Disc D "melizabeth" <elizabet98_98[ at ]yahoo.com> 11/17/2008 8:52:57 PM Could you direct me to a Microsoft Community where someone may be able to answer the following: This morning I had a little icon in the right lower taskbar which informs me that Recovery Disc D is almost full. Do you have any idea if or how I could go about giving Disc D more space (I would get it from Disc C I guess because that has 186 GB free to use).

Re: Recovery Disc D "Mary Sauer" <mary.sauer[ at ]mygmail.com> 11/17/2008 10:26:44 PM This forum has help http://forums.techguy.org/hardware/663415-recovery-drive-d-red-almost.html -- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "melizabeth" <elizabet98_98[ at ]yahoo.com> wrote in message news:uPQ9xZPSJHA.4504[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > Could you direct me to a Microsoft Community where someone may be able to > answer the following: > > This morning I had a little icon in the right lower taskbar which informs me > that Recovery Disc D is almost full. Do you have any idea if or how I could > go about giving Disc D more space (I would get it from Disc C I guess because > that has 186 GB free to use). > >

Re: Recovery Disc D "melizabeth" <elizabet98_98[ at ]yahoo.com> 11/17/2008 11:52:12 PM Thanks... some people there say it is not important and that it will never fill up and your system won't crash. Others say backup to an external drive, still others say buy software and make an image of the C drive. I'll have to decide... but thanks for the info. ms ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Mary Sauer" <mary.sauer[ at ]mygmail.com> wrote in message news:uOr4TOQSJHA.1484[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > This forum has help > http://forums.techguy.org/hardware/663415-recovery-drive-d-red-almost.html > > -- > Mary Sauer > http://msauer.mvps.org/ > > "melizabeth" <elizabet98_98[ at ]yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:uPQ9xZPSJHA.4504[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> Could you direct me to a Microsoft Community where someone may be able to >> answer the following: >> >> This morning I had a little icon in the right lower taskbar which informs >> me that Recovery Disc D is almost full. Do you have any idea if or how I >> could go about giving Disc D more space (I would get it from Disc C I >> guess because that has 186 GB free to use). >> >> > >

Re: Recovery Disc D "Gordon" <gordonbparker[ at ]yahoo.com.invalid> 11/18/2008 8:16:48 AM "melizabeth" <elizabet98_98[ at ]yahoo.com> wrote in message news:%23nnWB%23QSJHA.408[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > Thanks... some people there say it is not important and that it will never > fill up and your system won't crash. Others say backup to an external > drive, still others say buy software and make an image of the C drive. > I'll have to decide... but thanks for the info. The Recovery Partition is there to enable you to recover your computer to Factory-gate specification. DO NOT MESS WITH IT. DO NOT BACKUP DATA TO IT. If you have set a backup utility to do so then you need to change that NOW.

Re: Recovery Disc D "melizabeth" <elizabet98_98[ at ]yahoo.com> 11/18/2008 11:48:04 AM So, if what you are saying is that I should go to 'Backup Status and Configuration' and where it says, at the bottom 'Automatic backup is currently on' - I should choose 'Turn off'? If I do that, should I then go to 'Properties' and use 'Disc cleanup'? Thanks for your help. ms "Gordon" <gordonbparker[ at ]yahoo.com.invalid> wrote in message news:eAZe%23XVSJHA.4916[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > "melizabeth" <elizabet98_98[ at ]yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:%23nnWB%23QSJHA.408[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> Thanks... some people there say it is not important and that it will >> never fill up and your system won't crash. Others say backup to an >> external drive, still others say buy software and make an image of the C >> drive. I'll have to decide... but thanks for the info. > > The Recovery Partition is there to enable you to recover your computer to > Factory-gate specification. DO NOT MESS WITH IT. DO NOT BACKUP DATA TO IT. > If you have set a backup utility to do so then you need to change that > NOW.

Re: Recovery Disc D "Gordon" <gordonbparker[ at ]yahoo.com.invalid> 11/18/2008 12:07:50 PM "melizabeth" <elizabet98_98[ at ]yahoo.com> wrote in message news:%23gtN$NXSJHA.5904[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > So, if what you are saying is that I should go to 'Backup Status and > Configuration' and where it says, at the bottom 'Automatic backup is > currently on' - I should choose 'Turn off'? > No don't turn it off, you need to change the location to which the backups are being made. I'm afraid I can't help you there as I don't use Windows Backup.....

Re: Recovery Disc D "Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell[ at ]msn.com> 11/18/2008 10:44:39 PM I take backup seriously as it would be a disaster if I lost all my data. My PC has more than a decade of emails and documents, as well as photos from way back beyond. My recommendation is to get an external USB/eSATA hard drive (at least twice the size of your internal hard disk) and a good backup utility such as True Image Home edition. Make a regular monthly or fortnightly image (that is a mirror of your hard drive so that if the drive fails, you can get a new drive and copy it back so that the system runs as though nothing had happened). I'd also set up regular Incrementals (backing up only changes made since the previous image was made). How frequently depends on how much you use your system and how important it is if you lose any current work. Then when you next make your full image, you can delete all the old incrementals. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "melizabeth" <elizabet98_98[ at ]yahoo.com> wrote in message news:%23gtN$NXSJHA.5904[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > So, if what you are saying is that I should go to 'Backup Status and > Configuration' and where it says, at the bottom 'Automatic backup is > currently on' - I should choose 'Turn off'? > > If I do that, should I then go to 'Properties' and use 'Disc cleanup'? > > Thanks for your help. > ms > > > "Gordon" <gordonbparker[ at ]yahoo.com.invalid> wrote in message > news:eAZe%23XVSJHA.4916[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> "melizabeth" <elizabet98_98[ at ]yahoo.com> wrote in message >> news:%23nnWB%23QSJHA.408[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >>> Thanks... some people there say it is not important and that it will >>> never fill up and your system won't crash. Others say backup to an >>> external drive, still others say buy software and make an image of the C >>> drive. I'll have to decide... but thanks for the info. >> >> The Recovery Partition is there to enable you to recover your computer to >> Factory-gate specification. DO NOT MESS WITH IT. DO NOT BACKUP DATA TO >> IT. If you have set a backup utility to do so then you need to change >> that NOW. >

Re: Recovery Disc D "melizabeth" <elizabet98_98[ at ]yahoo.com> 11/21/2008 6:57:44 PM OK. I already have the external drive so now I need 'True Image Home Edition' which I will buy next time when I go to Staples. Thanks so much. This brings up another question about the message I get from the icon in the lower right taskbar which says the backup was aborted or incomplete. How can I get rid of that? And will Disc D automatically purge all the backups I have added there or shall I just leave it indicating in red - FULL. Thanks again... "Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell[ at ]msn.com> wrote in message news:eZnT%238cSJHA.4524[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] >I take backup seriously as it would be a disaster if I lost all my data. My >PC has more than a decade of emails and documents, as well as photos from >way back beyond. > > My recommendation is to get an external USB/eSATA hard drive (at least > twice the size of your internal hard disk) and a good backup utility such > as True Image Home edition. Make a regular monthly or fortnightly image > (that is a mirror of your hard drive so that if the drive fails, you can > get a new drive and copy it back so that the system runs as though nothing > had happened). I'd also set up regular Incrementals (backing up only > changes made since the previous image was made). How frequently depends on > how much you use your system and how important it is if you lose any > current work. Then when you next make your full image, you can delete all > the old incrementals. > > -- > Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP > > "melizabeth" <elizabet98_98[ at ]yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:%23gtN$NXSJHA.5904[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> So, if what you are saying is that I should go to 'Backup Status and >> Configuration' and where it says, at the bottom 'Automatic backup is >> currently on' - I should choose 'Turn off'? >> >> If I do that, should I then go to 'Properties' and use 'Disc cleanup'? >> >> Thanks for your help. >> ms >> >> >> "Gordon" <gordonbparker[ at ]yahoo.com.invalid> wrote in message >> news:eAZe%23XVSJHA.4916[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>> "melizabeth" <elizabet98_98[ at ]yahoo.com> wrote in message >>> news:%23nnWB%23QSJHA.408[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >>>> Thanks... some people there say it is not important and that it will >>>> never fill up and your system won't crash. Others say backup to an >>>> external drive, still others say buy software and make an image of the >>>> C drive. I'll have to decide... but thanks for the info. >>> >>> The Recovery Partition is there to enable you to recover your computer >>> to Factory-gate specification. DO NOT MESS WITH IT. DO NOT BACKUP DATA >>> TO IT. If you have set a backup utility to do so then you need to change >>> that NOW. >> >