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Old May 17th 08, 09:07 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.performance_maintenance
AJR
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Default Low Disk Space in Recovery "D" Vista OS

Frizzie - There is not need to "tinker" with the restore partition - space
wise or it's files (do not save data to the partition). The restore
partition is already compressed and if necessasry requires the "extra" space
to perform a restoration.

Check your documentation. HP usually provides an utility to copy the
restore partition and create a restore CD/DVD - in which case you can
recapture the D partition

Major problem with restore partition and disks is that restoration is to the
state of the computer at time of purchse - meaning that application/data
added or installed over a period of time are lost unless backups are being
maintained.

data.
"frizzie" wrote in message
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Hi David:

You wrote:
"D: local drive is where my laptop uses for "files backup", and it has
9.99 GB of space,and I have 4.38 GB left. If you have the same OS as I
do, this IS the one you CAN TOUCH. You can delete files you don't want ,
if you know what you are doing. If you don't, and since you have only 1%
of space left, there is one quick fix --- for now. It's by compressing
what are in the D drive."

I have a 3 month old HP Pavilion Elite running Vista 64 bit Home
Premium edition with SP1 installed. I see that there is only 1.01 GB
free of 10.5 GB left on the FACTORY_IMAGE D drive (the C drive has its
own partition as does D, E, F. G and I have 4 removable drive; one is
an external as well) I have not received any auto alerts low disk
space for the D drive -- the amount of space used caught my eye.

My question is will your COMPRESSION fix work on the 64 bit machine as
it does on your 32 bit? If so, what happens once the file is compressed?
I mean do I have to decompress it if I need to system restore? This is
all very confusing to me.

Thanx for your posts. I'm learning albeit slowly. I think I need to
buy a Vista for Dummies book, if there is one.

-frizzie


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frizzie