recovery drive says full?

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My recovery drive warning sign keeps poping up saying full, so if i burn a recovery disk will it make it go away???

Thanks in advance..

Answer 1

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Let me explain what is a recovery drive before you delete or remove anything. Then you will know what approach to take.

Your hard drive (and most newer computers) is partitioned into 2 drives. The first drive is the C: drive and the other is the D: drive.

The C: drive is the first partition of your hard drive. Here you will find your operating System (Windows) and all your installed games and programs.

The D:drive is the second partition of your hard drive. Here you will find recovery files. This drive is usually intended for containing only your recovery files and no more.

When the System crashes it crashes in the C: drive and not in the D" drive. The recovery files in the D: drive is not affected by the crash and therefore will allow you to recover the System by using your recovery disks that came along with your computer or the ones that the PC manual directed you to create in case of having to recover.

When your System crashes or won't work you insert the cd recovery disk in the cd drive and reboot the computer. The recovery program on the disk accesses the recovery files in your D: drive and recovers the System.

The recovery disks needs to access the files on your D: drive to be able to recover the System so it's not a good idea to ever remove or delete the recovery files found in the D: drive.

The D: drive should not be used for storage or installing programs. It should be reserved for the recovery files only.

Open your D" drive and remove any files that are not part of the Recovery files.

Burning a recovery disk will not make the warning message go away. You need to manually remove the files that don't belong there before it causes the D: drive to be inaccessible.

When a drive is full it can become inaccessible because the System needs to use some of it's free memory and if it's not available then it locks. that's why it is warning you before it gets to that point.

It's a good idea to copy the recovery files on a cd or dvd for backup in case the hard drive burns out.

Also don't forget to create those recovery disk neede to access the recovery files in the D: drive if you haven't done so yet because if your system crashes you won't be able to

do it then, and it will be too late.

Answer 2

Most Recovery Drives are a Virtual drive and not a Physical drive. You can't shrink them or even expand them normally. It is unusual not to see any files, unless they are all hidden files. A user is not suppose to put files on this drive if it does have any room, because it will make the Recovery programs on the drive useless.

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