reinstallation of windows 7

jogaz90 · 02 May 2010

i forgot my password so reinstalled windows 7 using the disk i got with my dell laptop and now it is saying that the recovery drive is full!please help

theog · 02 May 2010

Can you post a screen shot Disk management?
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Jonathan_King · 02 May 2010

Welcome to SF!

Try removing the drive letter for the recovery partition. Type diskmgmt.msc into the start menu, right-click on the recovery partition, and select Change Paths and Drive letters (or whatever it is :)).

Good luck!

whs · 02 May 2010

Open the recovery partition, make a snip and post it here. Then we can see what's on it and give you advice. From a reinstallation alone it should not have filled up.

jogaz90 · 02 May 2010

it wont let me save the screenshot so i cannot put it up

ski · 02 May 2010

See if this helps:
Windows 7 Manual Reinstall | Dell

theog · 02 May 2010

Do you have a windows.old folder on C: drive?

SIW2 · 02 May 2010

open a command prompt and type;

diskpart

(then press enter)

lis vol

(then press enter)

( make a note of what it says and post it up )

exi.

(then press enter)

close command prompt.

gregrocker · 03 May 2010

As requested, post back screenshots of your full Disk Mgmt drive map with listing, as well as the contents of the Recovery Drive.

Using Snipping Tool in Start menu, attach file using paper clip in Reply Box.

whs · 03 May 2010

SIW2 said:

open a command prompt and type;

diskpart

(then press enter)

lis vol

(then press enter)

( make a note of what it says and post it up )

exi.

(then press enter)

close command prompt.

Just a little correction:
lis vol works (in lieu of list vol), but exi. does not work - must be exit.