Recovery Drive Issue

Jo4

Dads' computer has a drive D which is a "Recovery drive" but it is red in colour and a pop up keeps appearing stating "low disk space". The space free is 2.48MB of 5.06GB. Can anyone tell me what to do to resolve the issue?

Hammyman

If you're running Vista or Windows 7, you can go into Disk Management, reduce the size of drive C and increase the size of Drive D

Jo4

Hammyman wrote: »

If you're running Vista or Windows 7, you can go into Disk Management, reduce the size of drive C and increase the size of Drive D

Running Vista, where is disk management?

Jo4

Jo4 wrote: »

Running Vista, where is disk management?

Found it!

Jo4

How do I increase the size of disk D?

Donnie

Why would you need to increase the size of the Recovery Drive anyway. Have you been storing files on it?

closed

Turn off system restore on that drive.

If that doesn't solve it

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windowsvista/ht/dislowdisk.htm

Jo4

Donnie wrote: »

Why would you need to increase the size of the Recovery Drive anyway. Have you been storing files on it?

That is what I was advised to do in post 2! I don't know what files he has stored on it.

Jo4

closed wrote: »

Turn off system restore on that drive.

If that doesn't solve it

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windowsvista/ht/dislowdisk.htm

Is it safe to turn off system restore? Is it located on drive C?

closed

Turn it off on the d drive only, the contents shouldn't change, so system restore is pointless on that drive.

Jo4

closed wrote: »

Turn it off on the d drive only, the contents shouldn't change, so system restore is pointless on that drive.

It is already turned off but the message keeps appearing.