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HP Recovery D., give more GBs?
I'm running XP Pro with SP3, 250 GBs
I keep getting a pop-up window telling me I don't have enough back-up space. It claims to have 8.47 GB filled and 32 MB free space. But back-up folder only claims :171 MB (179,630,619 bytes) Removing 'all but most recent restore point' changes no numbers. Disc clean-up sez it would add 0 Tried Check Disk..'Automatically fix file system error', and also 'recover bad areas'.... This Changed used space to 7.55 GBs free space 970 MB Also defragged D I wouldn't mind giving it more, but how to do so, please? Shall I back-up the files to my external drive, then delete them all from D and cause a new recovery point? or...??? |
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HP Recovery D., give more GBs?
There is a difference between "recovery" and "restore"
Recovery partition is usually what HP placed on your HD where resides all of the files needed to "recover" your Operating System and whatever else came with the computer to a just purchased state. This partition should not be used for any other purpose...nothing added nothing subtracted !!! and judging by the 8gb size of this D partition that's what it is!! "restore" points are created by the operating system on a daily basis and usually on the drive restore is monitoring. In other words if you are monitoring the C drive the "restore" points are created on the C drive. Once you turn off monitoring the D partition the problem will stop. This is done by right clicking "mycomputer"/properties and then the "System restore" tab. Click the drive and then click settings. If D is a partition YOU created please do post back peter -- If you find a posting or message from me offensive,inappropriate or disruptive,please ignore it. If you dont know how to ignore a posting complain to me and I will be only too happy to demonstrate :-) "Sylvia M" wrote in message ... I'm running XP Pro with SP3, 250 GBs I keep getting a pop-up window telling me I don't have enough back-up space. It claims to have 8.47 GB filled and 32 MB free space. But back-up folder only claims :171 MB (179,630,619 bytes) Removing 'all but most recent restore point' changes no numbers. Disc clean-up sez it would add 0 Tried Check Disk..'Automatically fix file system error', and also 'recover bad areas'.... This Changed used space to 7.55 GBs free space 970 MB Also defragged D I wouldn't mind giving it more, but how to do so, please? Shall I back-up the files to my external drive, then delete them all from D and cause a new recovery point? or...??? |
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HP Recovery D., give more GBs?
"Sylvia M" wrote in message
... I'm running XP Pro with SP3, 250 GBs I keep getting a pop-up window telling me I don't have enough back-up space. It claims to have 8.47 GB filled and 32 MB free space. But back-up folder only claims :171 MB (179,630,619 bytes) Removing 'all but most recent restore point' changes no numbers. Disc clean-up sez it would add 0 Tried Check Disk..'Automatically fix file system error', and also 'recover bad areas'.... This Changed used space to 7.55 GBs free space 970 MB Also defragged D I wouldn't mind giving it more, but how to do so, please? Shall I back-up the files to my external drive, then delete them all from D and cause a new recovery point? or...??? As mentioned, the "recovery" partition are for restoring the system should you need to reinstall Windows - though if you don't also have reinstall CDs, it's of no help at all if the drive itself fails. The recovery folders may be hidden, which would be why you don't see what's using the space. If you're backing up to another partition on the same physical disk - this is a very bad idea, because you lose the backups at the same time the drive fails. Can you provide some more details? |
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HP Recovery D., give more GBs?
"Patrick Keenan" wrote in message ... "Sylvia M" wrote in message ... I'm running XP Pro with SP3, 250 GBs I keep getting a pop-up window telling me I don't have enough back-up space. It claims to have 8.47 GB filled and 32 MB free space. But back-up folder only claims :171 MB (179,630,619 bytes) Removing 'all but most recent restore point' changes no numbers. Disc clean-up sez it would add 0 Tried Check Disk..'Automatically fix file system error', and also 'recover bad areas'.... This Changed used space to 7.55 GBs free space 970 MB Also defragged D I wouldn't mind giving it more, but how to do so, please? Shall I back-up the files to my external drive, then delete them all from D and cause a new recovery point? or...??? As mentioned, the "recovery" partition are for restoring the system should you need to reinstall Windows - though if you don't also have reinstall CDs, it's of no help at all if the drive itself fails. The recovery folders may be hidden, which would be why you don't see what's using the space. If you're backing up to another partition on the same physical disk - this is a very bad idea, because you lose the backups at the same time the drive fails. Can you provide some more details? Thanks both for clarifying. D has always been named HP Recovery. When opened, it shows a locked Recovery portion, and also a Norton N360_ Backup. Let me guess ;-) I dragged the N360 out onto desktop, thus putting a copy into C (?), Then deleted that file from D. That gave me 7.38 GBs of necessary Restore to be left alone. the 1.11 GBs of free space should stop the pop-up nagging window. So thanks for getting me straight on that! On My Computer, I found an Icon with 'Norton Backup Drive'... Upon opening I find 2 'Default Sets' and one dated 6/12/09 file. Since I'm stuck with N360, at least for now, I'd let it backup either to C, or better still to my external drive, which is safer-keeping. Though on second thought, I would just as soon just back-up my files selectively, directly to my external drive, by dragging or copy-paste and ignore as much of Norton's "Help" as I can. Any thoughts on the above options? |
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HP Recovery D., give more GBs?
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 21:59:56 -0800, "Sylvia M"
wrote: "Patrick Keenan" wrote in message ... "Sylvia M" wrote in message ... I'm running XP Pro with SP3, 250 GBs I keep getting a pop-up window telling me I don't have enough back-up space. It claims to have 8.47 GB filled and 32 MB free space. But back-up folder only claims :171 MB (179,630,619 bytes) Removing 'all but most recent restore point' changes no numbers. Disc clean-up sez it would add 0 Tried Check Disk..'Automatically fix file system error', and also 'recover bad areas'.... This Changed used space to 7.55 GBs free space 970 MB Also defragged D I wouldn't mind giving it more, but how to do so, please? Shall I back-up the files to my external drive, then delete them all from D and cause a new recovery point? or...??? As mentioned, the "recovery" partition are for restoring the system should you need to reinstall Windows - though if you don't also have reinstall CDs, it's of no help at all if the drive itself fails. The recovery folders may be hidden, which would be why you don't see what's using the space. If you're backing up to another partition on the same physical disk - this is a very bad idea, because you lose the backups at the same time the drive fails. Can you provide some more details? Thanks both for clarifying. D has always been named HP Recovery. When opened, it shows a locked Recovery portion, and also a Norton N360_ Backup. Let me guess ;-) I dragged the N360 out onto desktop, thus putting a copy into C (?), Then deleted that file from D. That gave me 7.38 GBs of necessary Restore to be left alone. the 1.11 GBs of free space should stop the pop-up nagging window. So thanks for getting me straight on that! On My Computer, I found an Icon with 'Norton Backup Drive'... Upon opening I find 2 'Default Sets' and one dated 6/12/09 file. Since I'm stuck with N360, at least for now, I'd let it backup either to C, or better still to my external drive, which is safer-keeping. Though on second thought, I would just as soon just back-up my files selectively, directly to my external drive, by dragging or copy-paste and ignore as much of Norton's "Help" as I can. Any thoughts on the above options? Any reason why you are "stuck with N360 " ? |
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HP Recovery D., give more GBs?
"Jim" wrote in message ... On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 21:59:56 -0800, "Sylvia M" wrote: "Patrick Keenan" wrote in message ... "Sylvia M" wrote in message ... I'm running XP Pro with SP3, 250 GBs I keep getting a pop-up window telling me I don't have enough back-up space. It claims to have 8.47 GB filled and 32 MB free space. But back-up folder only claims :171 MB (179,630,619 bytes) Removing 'all but most recent restore point' changes no numbers. Disc clean-up sez it would add 0 Tried Check Disk..'Automatically fix file system error', and also 'recover bad areas'.... This Changed used space to 7.55 GBs free space 970 MB Also defragged D I wouldn't mind giving it more, but how to do so, please? Shall I back-up the files to my external drive, then delete them all from D and cause a new recovery point? or...??? As mentioned, the "recovery" partition are for restoring the system should you need to reinstall Windows - though if you don't also have reinstall CDs, it's of no help at all if the drive itself fails. The recovery folders may be hidden, which would be why you don't see what's using the space. If you're backing up to another partition on the same physical disk - this is a very bad idea, because you lose the backups at the same time the drive fails. Can you provide some more details? Thanks both for clarifying. D has always been named HP Recovery. When opened, it shows a locked Recovery portion, and also a Norton N360_ Backup. Let me guess ;-) I dragged the N360 out onto desktop, thus putting a copy into C (?), Then deleted that file from D. That gave me 7.38 GBs of necessary Restore to be left alone. the 1.11 GBs of free space should stop the pop-up nagging window. So thanks for getting me straight on that! On My Computer, I found an Icon with 'Norton Backup Drive'... Upon opening I find 2 'Default Sets' and one dated 6/12/09 file. Since I'm stuck with N360, at least for now, I'd let it backup either to C, or better still to my external drive, which is safer-keeping. Though on second thought, I would just as soon just back-up my files selectively, directly to my external drive, by dragging or copy-paste and ignore as much of Norton's "Help" as I can. Any thoughts on the above options? Any reason why you are "stuck with N360 " ? BTW, I made a set of reinstall CDs when I first got the PC home and realized it had NO discs, just built-ins. Those included Norton, which is virtually impossible to completly remove...that and laziness have kept me renewing + laptop came from Dell with Norton installed, and the same renewal took care of both...eventually I'll switch, probably to Kaspberry(sp). |
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HP Recovery D., give more GBs?
Sylvia M wrote:
BTW, I made a set of reinstall CDs when I first got the PC home and realized it had NO discs, just built-ins. Those included Norton, which is virtually impossible to completly remove... It is important to also run their removal tool: http://service1.symantec.com/Support...05033108162039 |
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HP Recovery D., give more GBs?
"Daave" wrote in message ... Sylvia M wrote: BTW, I made a set of reinstall CDs when I first got the PC home and realized it had NO discs, just built-ins. Those included Norton, which is virtually impossible to completly remove... It is important to also run their removal tool: http://service1.symantec.com/Support...05033108162039 Thanks for that, Dave. I'll keep it for when my sub$cription is about to expire. |
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HP Recovery D., give more GBs?
Sylvia M wrote:
"Daave" wrote in message ... Sylvia M wrote: BTW, I made a set of reinstall CDs when I first got the PC home and realized it had NO discs, just built-ins. Those included Norton, which is virtually impossible to completly remove... It is important to also run their removal tool: http://service1.symantec.com/Support...05033108162039 Thanks for that, Dave. I'll keep it for when my sub$cription is about to expire. YW. |
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