Low Space Problem

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  1. Posts : 37
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
       #11

    Move you some flies from d to c that is the only way. And use disk cleanup to free up space on the d drive.
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  2. Posts : 6
    windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #12

    I have attached screen shots for Disk Managment, My Computer and Recovery Partition.

    Low Space Problem-disk-manage.jpg

    Low Space Problem-my-computer.jpg

    Low Space Problem-recovery-partion.jpg
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  3. Posts : 10,200
    MS Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit
       #13

    Please run Disk Cleanup.

    WIN key | type Disk Cleanup | Enter key

    I think we even have a tutorial on using Disk Cleanup.
    But, I'll leave that search to you.

    Be sure when you run Disk Cleanup to specify Drive D:

    Recommend that you review, with Windows Explorer, what you have on that D drive and delete the junk there that you are not using and never will use.

    Next, get yourself an external USB drive (they are really cheap nowadays) and move those things which you only use once every blue moon over to the external USB drive.

    A full drive is extremely unusual.
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  4. Posts : 6
    windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #14

    I did run it and it say it will free 0 bytes. The only thing on the drive is the partition recovery.
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  5. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
       #15

    kped814 said:
    When I open the drive to see what files there are the only thing that shows up is recovery. When I open the recovery file it says warning compaq recovery partion.
    If the only file that is there is "Recovery", then you should not have a space problem in that partition. Something does not add up.
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  6. Posts : 5,056
    Windows 7 x64 pro/ Windows 7 x86 Pro/ XP SP3 x86
       #16

    The files in the recovery partition are hidden by design. You need to unhide hidden files and folders to view the contents of the Recovery partition. See this HP tutorial.

    Error: Low Disk Space. You are running out of disk space on Recovery (D:) - HP Customer Care (United States - English)
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  7. Posts : 99
    Win 7 Professional 64bit
       #17

    It seems you have one harddisk that's divided in 2 partitions.
    As far as I know it is possible to "shift" the partitions so that one gets smaller and one gets bigger (there are tools for that but I can't remember now what they're called). But I wouldn't risk it with a disk that full anyway.
    Your harddisk is quite small. I would put in a second, bigger, one and move all those files over to this new HD. Then you could change the letters so that the new big drive is D: again.
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  8. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
       #18

    Bill2 said:
    The files in the recovery partition are hidden by design. You need to unhide hidden files and folders to view the contents of the Recovery partition. See this HP tutorial.

    Error: Low Disk Space. You are running out of disk space on Recovery (D:) - HP Customer Care (United States - English)
    Bill, I would not recommend to unhide the files in the recovery partition. That will just confuse the issue. The OP is likely not to be able to decypher all those files in the recovery partition.
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  9. Posts : 5,056
    Windows 7 x64 pro/ Windows 7 x86 Pro/ XP SP3 x86
       #19

    whs said:
    Bill2 said:
    The files in the recovery partition are hidden by design. You need to unhide hidden files and folders to view the contents of the Recovery partition. See this HP tutorial.

    Error: Low Disk Space. You are running out of disk space on Recovery (D:) - HP Customer Care (United States - English)
    Bill, I would not recommend to unhide the files in the recovery partition. That will just confuse the issue. The OP is likely not to be able to decypher all those files in the recovery partition.
    You may be right, WHS but I doubt that recovery partition is any use with that extra stuff there. In that case, best to delete it completely and recover some hdd space. As a safeguard, OP can order another set of recovery disks from HP-Compaq, they sell them for $10-20.
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  10. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
       #20

    Bill2 said:
    whs said:
    Bill2 said:
    The files in the recovery partition are hidden by design. You need to unhide hidden files and folders to view the contents of the Recovery partition. See this HP tutorial.

    Error: Low Disk Space. You are running out of disk space on Recovery (D:) - HP Customer Care (United States - English)
    Bill, I would not recommend to unhide the files in the recovery partition. That will just confuse the issue. The OP is likely not to be able to decypher all those files in the recovery partition.
    You may be right, WHS but I doubt that recovery partition is any use with that extra stuff there. In that case, best to delete it completely and recover some hdd space. As a safeguard, OP can order another set of recovery disks from HP-Compaq, they sell them for $10-20.
    Yeah, but look at his post #14 - he says there is nothing other than the recovery folder on it. There is something that does not add up.
    Besides, he could always make a few images for backup. Then he would not need the recovery partition either.
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