Can`t create a restore date

Hello Bill and welcome to Seven Forums.

Before trying to solve the restore issue, please post a screenshot of your Disk Management. I'm not entirely sure what you mean when you say your HP recovery disk is full and you can't clean it. Is this a separate partition on your hard disk? Or an external hard drive? Or a separate CD/DVD provided by HP? A screenshot will help.

Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image

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Hope i have done this right, thanks

Thanks for the screenshot, Bill. It helps. Here's a larger view.



In looking at the screenshot I see a couple of things that might be causing your System Restore issues. It appears that you have one hard drive with about 1TB total space. That would be your C: drive and it has about 73% free space on it or about 669 GB. You also show an E: drive / partition with no allocated space so nothing can be saved to that location. Then you have a D: drive / partition called HP Recovery. I'm thinking that this is the manufacturer's hidden partition that would allow you to restore your computer to original factory specs just like the day you brought it home from the store. Then there's the G: drive and I'll get to that in a minute.

A 1 TB hard drive (your C: drive / partition) should have about 931.3 GB of usable space (I'm rounding down these numbers.). If you add the existing capacity of 919.9 and the HP Recovery capacity of 11.4 you get 931.3 which seems to be perfect. To put it another way, if your hard drive started out with 931.3 GB of usable space and HP used 11.4 GB to make the Recovery Partition, you're left with 919.9 GB of usable space. The G: drive / partition was set up to have available 465.7 GB of usable space. If you subtract that from the 919.9 available space on the C: drive / partition, you get 454.2 GB of remaining usable space on the C: drive / partition. But your screenshot shows the C: drive / partition has 669.6 GB of available space.

Is the G: drive / partition by chance an external hard drive or a second internal hard drive rather than a partition on the C: drive? If it's not an external hard drive or a second internal hard drive then we need to figure out if my math is wrong or if you have 215 GB of unaccounted for hard drive space.

Now that I've confused us both, here's some info about how your System Restore should be set up and how it works. System Restore uses a feature called System Protection to regularly create and save restore points of selected hard disks in your computer. This tutorial explains how to access System Restore through System Protection. I'm thinking that you may have the wrong drive /partition turned on or off.

System Restore

I agree, you must turn off the protection on the recovery partition. #1, Nothing should ever change on the recovery partition therefore there is no reason to have it added to the restore points. #2, Nothing should ever be written to the recovery partition.
Right click My Computer/Properties select the recovery partition and then configure. Turn it off. This will also delete all the extra data that has been written there.

Bill

Hi
On going into system protection,I can see 3 avail drives.( all are switched on) (G) which is a external. (C) and (HP RECOVERY) If i swich off (G) I t will not allow me to create a restore point.
If i swich off (HP) It will allow me, i create one ,try to restore and get the message(no room 0x800700700.
I f i swich off (G) and ( HP) it will allow me to create ,on trying to restore ,i get the message (no room 0x800700700) I do not know what the settings should be and don`t recall changing anything in the first place,had no need to and would not have known what i was doing??

IMO the only drive that needs to be monitored is the C:\ drive. My Computer/Properties/System Protection/ stop the protection on everything but the C:\ drive. On the configure dialog for the C:\ drive, set the amount of space to be used to No more than 10% of the C:\ drive space. Bill