Recovery Drive D

My recovery drive D is full. I made my backup discs, set Restore Point
however the popup message comes up constantly to backup my files or empty the
Recyle Bin which I do. Is this a quirk in Vista? I have performed every
task it has requested but it bothers me when I see that message that I am
"running out of disc space." Any suggestions please? Thanks
--
mpj

Your D drive is a factory installed recovery partition?

To turn of the low disk space alerts, go to Computer Management, Disk Management
and unassign a drive letter. This will not harm the data on the factory
installation recovery partition.

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"mpj" <> wrote in message
news:4A98FF82-8FD9-416B-938B-...
> My recovery drive D is full. I made my backup discs, set Restore Point
> however the popup message comes up constantly to backup my files or empty the
> Recyle Bin which I do. Is this a quirk in Vista? I have performed every
> task it has requested but it bothers me when I see that message that I am
> "running out of disc space." Any suggestions please? Thanks
> --
> mpj

=?Utf-8?B?bXBq?= <>, the noxious-floater
and hardcore gerbil jockey who likes perverse intimate liaisons with
walruses, and whose partner is a charity moll with a clammy stanky,
wrote in <4A98FF82-8FD9-416B-938B->:
> My recovery drive D is full. I made my backup discs, set Restore Point
> however the popup message comes up constantly to backup my files or empty
> the
> Recyle Bin which I do. Is this a quirk in Vista? I have performed every
> task it has requested but it bothers me when I see that message that I am
> "running out of disc space." Any suggestions please? Thanks
> --
> mpj


And your computer is a...?

You shouldn't **** with the recovery partition, you shouldn't even have a
letter mapped to it unless you have certain POS computers that give you a
letter to a more or less full drive to start with.


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How interesting! I bleed blue & gold also. Go Bears!

Yes it is a factory installation. Before I jump in and do this do I need to
assign another letter or just leave it blank and use CD-RW as before? This
sounds much easier and I can stop running around looking at more computer
hard drives for the time being. Thank you so much

Marlene
--
mpj


"Cal Bear '66" wrote:

> Your D drive is a factory installed recovery partition?
>
> To turn of the low disk space alerts, go to Computer Management, Disk Management
> and unassign a drive letter. This will not harm the data on the factory
> installation recovery partition.
>
> --
> I Bleed Blue and Gold
> GO BEARS!
>
>
> "mpj" <> wrote in message
> news:4A98FF82-8FD9-416B-938B-...
> > My recovery drive D is full. I made my backup discs, set Restore Point
> > however the popup message comes up constantly to backup my files or empty the
> > Recyle Bin which I do. Is this a quirk in Vista? I have performed every
> > task it has requested but it bothers me when I see that message that I am
> > "running out of disc space." Any suggestions please? Thanks
> > --
> > mpj
>
>
>

Dear Old Blue (assuming you are already an alumna),

If you have already made Recovery Disks (DVDs?) from the factory restore
partition D:, you can delete the partition and expand C; to take up the space.

However, since it is such a small space (usually ~ 10GB, or so) you can just
leave it alone as an extra backup route. You just leave the backup letter
blank. Should you need to access the partition later, you can again assign the
drive letter.

This should not affect your ability to use CD-RWs in general. You are probably
only allowed to make one set of Factory Restore disks anyway.

Note that factory restore is not the same thing as Window's System Restore.
Factory restore will restore your system to a factory shipped condition, any
changes you have made or any programs you have installed will be lost. Window's
System Restore will roll back your system to a previous state and will only undo
(hopefully) any changes made since that Restore Point was created.

Good luck, and Hail California!

--
I Bleed Blue and Gold
GO BEARS!


"mpj" <> wrote in message
news:9F7D4776-9D12-431E-8A27-...
> How interesting! I bleed blue & gold also. Go Bears!
>
> Yes it is a factory installation. Before I jump in and do this do I need to
> assign another letter or just leave it blank and use CD-RW as before? This
> sounds much easier and I can stop running around looking at more computer
> hard drives for the time being. Thank you so much
>
> Marlene
> --
> mpj
>
>
> "Cal Bear '66" wrote:
>
>> Your D drive is a factory installed recovery partition?
>>
>> To turn of the low disk space alerts, go to Computer Management, Disk
>> Management
>> and unassign a drive letter. This will not harm the data on the factory
>> installation recovery partition.
>>
>> --
>> I Bleed Blue and Gold
>> GO BEARS!
>>
>>
>> "mpj" <> wrote in message
>> news:4A98FF82-8FD9-416B-938B-...
>> > My recovery drive D is full. I made my backup discs, set Restore Point
>> > however the popup message comes up constantly to backup my files or empty
>> > the
>> > Recyle Bin which I do. Is this a quirk in Vista? I have performed every
>> > task it has requested but it bothers me when I see that message that I am
>> > "running out of disc space." Any suggestions please? Thanks
>> > --
>> > mpj
>>
>>
>>

Dear bleeding Bear,

Still have a problem; error message: "Insuffient storage to create shadow
copy or other shadow copy data (0x8004231F)." I followed your instructions
as to removing the drive letter and am using DVD-R to backup files. You are
right, I was able to make the factory setting backup disks but still not able
to backup my files. Any other ideas? Thank you, Go Bears
--
mpj


"mpj" wrote:

> How interesting! I bleed blue & gold also. Go Bears!
>
> Yes it is a factory installation. Before I jump in and do this do I need to
> assign another letter or just leave it blank and use CD-RW as before? This
> sounds much easier and I can stop running around looking at more computer
> hard drives for the time being. Thank you so much
>
> Marlene
> --
> mpj
>
>
> "Cal Bear '66" wrote:
>
> > Your D drive is a factory installed recovery partition?
> >
> > To turn of the low disk space alerts, go to Computer Management, Disk Management
> > and unassign a drive letter. This will not harm the data on the factory
> > installation recovery partition.
> >
> > --
> > I Bleed Blue and Gold
> > GO BEARS!
> >
> >
> > "mpj" <> wrote in message
> > news:4A98FF82-8FD9-416B-938B-...
> > > My recovery drive D is full. I made my backup discs, set Restore Point
> > > however the popup message comes up constantly to backup my files or empty the
> > > Recyle Bin which I do. Is this a quirk in Vista? I have performed every
> > > task it has requested but it bothers me when I see that message that I am
> > > "running out of disc space." Any suggestions please? Thanks
> > > --
> > > mpj
> >
> >
> >

Wow, you would have to get that one.

The only thing I could find after searching the net was 1) Make sure you have
not included the D: drive in the sources for backing up files and 2) Perhaps
McAfee would cause this error.

You are trying to backup files from your C: drive to DVDs, right?

--
I Bleed Blue and Gold
GO BEARS!


"mpj" <> wrote in message
news:B1C3EDAA-BBBD-4FF1-A0C8-...
> Dear bleeding Bear,
>
> Still have a problem; error message: "Insuffient storage to create shadow
> copy or other shadow copy data (0x8004231F)." I followed your instructions
> as to removing the drive letter and am using DVD-R to backup files. You are
> right, I was able to make the factory setting backup disks but still not able
> to backup my files. Any other ideas? Thank you, Go Bears
> --
> mpj
>
>
> "mpj" wrote:
>
>> How interesting! I bleed blue & gold also. Go Bears!
>>
>> Yes it is a factory installation. Before I jump in and do this do I need to
>> assign another letter or just leave it blank and use CD-RW as before? This
>> sounds much easier and I can stop running around looking at more computer
>> hard drives for the time being. Thank you so much
>>
>> Marlene
>> --
>> mpj
>>
>>
>> "Cal Bear '66" wrote:
>>
>> > Your D drive is a factory installed recovery partition?
>> >
>> > To turn of the low disk space alerts, go to Computer Management, Disk
>> > Management
>> > and unassign a drive letter. This will not harm the data on the factory
>> > installation recovery partition.
>> >
>> > --
>> > I Bleed Blue and Gold
>> > GO BEARS!
>> >
>> >
>> > "mpj" <> wrote in message
>> > news:4A98FF82-8FD9-416B-938B-...
>> > > My recovery drive D is full. I made my backup discs, set Restore Point
>> > > however the popup message comes up constantly to backup my files or empty
>> > > the
>> > > Recyle Bin which I do. Is this a quirk in Vista? I have performed every
>> > > task it has requested but it bothers me when I see that message that I am
>> > > "running out of disc space." Any suggestions please? Thanks
>> > > --
>> > > mpj
>> >
>> >
>> >

After removing the letter "D" my only option for backup was Drive E with a
DVD-R and still the same problem. I don't have the option to use C Drive. So
it looks like I am trying to back up on the same drive which isn't possible,
correct? Yeah, something isnt right here. Looks like I need to write
McAfee. Thanks for your help.

Marlene
--
mpj


"Cal Bear '66" wrote:

> Wow, you would have to get that one.
>
> The only thing I could find after searching the net was 1) Make sure you have
> not included the D: drive in the sources for backing up files and 2) Perhaps
> McAfee would cause this error.
>
> You are trying to backup files from your C: drive to DVDs, right?
>
> --
> I Bleed Blue and Gold
> GO BEARS!
>
>
> "mpj" <> wrote in message
> news:B1C3EDAA-BBBD-4FF1-A0C8-...
> > Dear bleeding Bear,
> >
> > Still have a problem; error message: "Insuffient storage to create shadow
> > copy or other shadow copy data (0x8004231F)." I followed your instructions
> > as to removing the drive letter and am using DVD-R to backup files. You are
> > right, I was able to make the factory setting backup disks but still not able
> > to backup my files. Any other ideas? Thank you, Go Bears
> > --
> > mpj
> >
> >
> > "mpj" wrote:
> >
> >> How interesting! I bleed blue & gold also. Go Bears!
> >>
> >> Yes it is a factory installation. Before I jump in and do this do I need to
> >> assign another letter or just leave it blank and use CD-RW as before? This
> >> sounds much easier and I can stop running around looking at more computer
> >> hard drives for the time being. Thank you so much
> >>
> >> Marlene
> >> --
> >> mpj
> >>
> >>
> >> "Cal Bear '66" wrote:
> >>
> >> > Your D drive is a factory installed recovery partition?
> >> >
> >> > To turn of the low disk space alerts, go to Computer Management, Disk
> >> > Management
> >> > and unassign a drive letter. This will not harm the data on the factory
> >> > installation recovery partition.
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > I Bleed Blue and Gold
> >> > GO BEARS!
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > "mpj" <> wrote in message
> >> > news:4A98FF82-8FD9-416B-938B-...
> >> > > My recovery drive D is full. I made my backup discs, set Restore Point
> >> > > however the popup message comes up constantly to backup my files or empty
> >> > > the
> >> > > Recyle Bin which I do. Is this a quirk in Vista? I have performed every
> >> > > task it has requested but it bothers me when I see that message that I am
> >> > > "running out of disc space." Any suggestions please? Thanks
> >> > > --
> >> > > mpj
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
>
>
>

I found this which worked for another person with the same problem and error
message:


"1) Use the "System Protection" tab of the System control panel and make sure
that D: is not enabled for automatic restore points

2) Use "Change Backup Settings" in "Windows Backup" to make sure that D: is not
enabled for backups"


--
I Bleed Blue and Gold
GO BEARS!


"mpj" <> wrote in message
news:0FCF76E8-D13C-4DED-AE7E-...
> After removing the letter "D" my only option for backup was Drive E with a
> DVD-R and still the same problem. I don't have the option to use C Drive. So
> it looks like I am trying to back up on the same drive which isn't possible,
> correct? Yeah, something isnt right here. Looks like I need to write
> McAfee. Thanks for your help.
>
> Marlene
> --
> mpj
>
>
> "Cal Bear '66" wrote:
>
>> Wow, you would have to get that one.
>>
>> The only thing I could find after searching the net was 1) Make sure you have
>> not included the D: drive in the sources for backing up files and 2) Perhaps
>> McAfee would cause this error.
>>
>> You are trying to backup files from your C: drive to DVDs, right?
>>
>> --
>> I Bleed Blue and Gold
>> GO BEARS!
>>
>>
>> "mpj" <> wrote in message
>> news:B1C3EDAA-BBBD-4FF1-A0C8-...
>> > Dear bleeding Bear,
>> >
>> > Still have a problem; error message: "Insuffient storage to create shadow
>> > copy or other shadow copy data (0x8004231F)." I followed your instructions
>> > as to removing the drive letter and am using DVD-R to backup files. You
>> > are
>> > right, I was able to make the factory setting backup disks but still not
>> > able
>> > to backup my files. Any other ideas? Thank you, Go Bears
>> > --
>> > mpj
>> >
>> >
>> > "mpj" wrote:
>> >
>> >> How interesting! I bleed blue & gold also. Go Bears!
>> >>
>> >> Yes it is a factory installation. Before I jump in and do this do I need
>> >> to
>> >> assign another letter or just leave it blank and use CD-RW as before?
>> >> This
>> >> sounds much easier and I can stop running around looking at more computer
>> >> hard drives for the time being. Thank you so much
>> >>
>> >> Marlene
>> >> --
>> >> mpj
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "Cal Bear '66" wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Your D drive is a factory installed recovery partition?
>> >> >
>> >> > To turn of the low disk space alerts, go to Computer Management, Disk
>> >> > Management
>> >> > and unassign a drive letter. This will not harm the data on the factory
>> >> > installation recovery partition.
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > I Bleed Blue and Gold
>> >> > GO BEARS!
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > "mpj" <> wrote in message
>> >> > news:4A98FF82-8FD9-416B-938B-...
>> >> > > My recovery drive D is full. I made my backup discs, set Restore
>> >> > > Point
>> >> > > however the popup message comes up constantly to backup my files or
>> >> > > empty
>> >> > > the
>> >> > > Recyle Bin which I do. Is this a quirk in Vista? I have performed
>> >> > > every
>> >> > > task it has requested but it bothers me when I see that message that I
>> >> > > am
>> >> > > "running out of disc space." Any suggestions please? Thanks
>> >> > > --
>> >> > > mpj
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>>
>>
>>

Thanks Bear! Before I received your email I found some info on
windows/support/backup and apparently the Recovery D is NOT to be used to
back up disks at any time. This info was not provided at the time I made my
first back up for the Factory Settings. I just finished making a backup DVD!
whew- after screwing around for 10 hours trying to correct this. Now I need
to delete the info on Recovery D so it will be available for what it was
designed to do. Thanks you so very much blue bear.
--
mpj


"Cal Bear '66" wrote:

>
> I found this which worked for another person with the same problem and error
> message:
>
>
> "1) Use the "System Protection" tab of the System control panel and make sure
> that D: is not enabled for automatic restore points
>
> 2) Use "Change Backup Settings" in "Windows Backup" to make sure that D: is not
> enabled for backups"
>
>
> --
> I Bleed Blue and Gold
> GO BEARS!
>
>
> "mpj" <> wrote in message
> news:0FCF76E8-D13C-4DED-AE7E-...
> > After removing the letter "D" my only option for backup was Drive E with a
> > DVD-R and still the same problem. I don't have the option to use C Drive. So
> > it looks like I am trying to back up on the same drive which isn't possible,
> > correct? Yeah, something isnt right here. Looks like I need to write
> > McAfee. Thanks for your help.
> >
> > Marlene
> > --
> > mpj
> >
> >
> > "Cal Bear '66" wrote:
> >
> >> Wow, you would have to get that one.
> >>
> >> The only thing I could find after searching the net was 1) Make sure you have
> >> not included the D: drive in the sources for backing up files and 2) Perhaps
> >> McAfee would cause this error.
> >>
> >> You are trying to backup files from your C: drive to DVDs, right?
> >>
> >> --
> >> I Bleed Blue and Gold
> >> GO BEARS!
> >>
> >>
> >> "mpj" <> wrote in message
> >> news:B1C3EDAA-BBBD-4FF1-A0C8-...
> >> > Dear bleeding Bear,
> >> >
> >> > Still have a problem; error message: "Insuffient storage to create shadow
> >> > copy or other shadow copy data (0x8004231F)." I followed your instructions
> >> > as to removing the drive letter and am using DVD-R to backup files. You
> >> > are
> >> > right, I was able to make the factory setting backup disks but still not
> >> > able
> >> > to backup my files. Any other ideas? Thank you, Go Bears
> >> > --
> >> > mpj
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > "mpj" wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> How interesting! I bleed blue & gold also. Go Bears!
> >> >>
> >> >> Yes it is a factory installation. Before I jump in and do this do I need
> >> >> to
> >> >> assign another letter or just leave it blank and use CD-RW as before?
> >> >> This
> >> >> sounds much easier and I can stop running around looking at more computer
> >> >> hard drives for the time being. Thank you so much
> >> >>
> >> >> Marlene
> >> >> --
> >> >> mpj
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> "Cal Bear '66" wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > Your D drive is a factory installed recovery partition?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > To turn of the low disk space alerts, go to Computer Management, Disk
> >> >> > Management
> >> >> > and unassign a drive letter. This will not harm the data on the factory
> >> >> > installation recovery partition.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > --
> >> >> > I Bleed Blue and Gold
> >> >> > GO BEARS!
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > "mpj" <> wrote in message
> >> >> > news:4A98FF82-8FD9-416B-938B-...
> >> >> > > My recovery drive D is full. I made my backup discs, set Restore
> >> >> > > Point
> >> >> > > however the popup message comes up constantly to backup my files or
> >> >> > > empty
> >> >> > > the
> >> >> > > Recyle Bin which I do. Is this a quirk in Vista? I have performed
> >> >> > > every
> >> >> > > task it has requested but it bothers me when I see that message that I
> >> >> > > am
> >> >> > > "running out of disc space." Any suggestions please? Thanks
> >> >> > > --
> >> >> > > mpj
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>