Lenovo T430s Q drive recovery low on disk space

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    Lenovo T430s Q drive recovery low on disk space


    Hi everyone,
    I am new here and looking for a fix for my problem. I recently bought a New Lenovo Thinkpad T430s for my wife. It has a 3rd gen i5 intel and 500GB hard drive. After setting it up all went well and on the second day upon start up it showed a message of low disk space on Q drive. That recovery area began with approx 16GB of space but for some reason its showing 1.6GB remaining. I made NO changes and need to know how to expand Q drive so that the warning goes away, and some how check if other things are being directed to that space. If you need more info please ask. Thanks for your help
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    Topjack welcome to SevenForums

    Right-click on Computer on the Desktop or click on then right click on Computer inside the Start Menu and select Properties. Then click on System Protection on the left upper hand side . Everything but the C partition should be off.

    System Protection - Turn On or Off

    Does it say Q drive as being On ? If it is click on Drive Q and click on Configure . On the System Protection for Q click on Turn off system protection then click on Apply and Ok buttons
    Last edited by VistaKing; 20 Jun 2013 at 17:30.
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    VistaKing,
    Thanks for your reply to my problem and after doing what you said it looks like only the C drive is active, so now back to square one. It's hard to believe that Lenovo would create a system restore area and leave it with so little room in case of problems such as this.Since I made back up disks I can delete the Q drive but with my luck I would loose those disks or they just didn't work. Anyone with more ideas?
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    Can you upload an image for disk management ?

    Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image
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    VistaKing, I was able to take an image of the drive management but am lost as to how I can post it here. I saved the image onto a USB drive and hope you or someone can guide me as to posting the image on here.
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    Lenovo T430s Q drive recovery low on disk space-capture.png I have no idea if I sent this right or not.. please let me know if wrong and as to how to send the right way
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    Recovery should never have a letter so that nothing can write to it and clog it. I would remove the drive letter now in Disk Mgmt. Drive Letter - Add, Change, or Remove in Windows 7 - Windows 7 Forums

    It may also have just been a matter of turning off System Restore on Q so that SysVolInfo file was deleted.

    Generate your Recovery media now to see if it functions.

    But be aware that partition supports the Lenovo preinstalled Win7 which is a corrupt install to begin with larded with bloatware and duplicate utilities that have better versions built into Win7. For that reason most tech enthusiasts choose to Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7 . Until then you can regain some of Win7's native performance by Cleaning Up Factory Bloatware .
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    Can you show a prnt screen of the Q drive ?

    What files are inside Drive Q ? It should only have recovery files
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    VistaKing said:
    Can you show a prnt screen of the Q drive ?

    What files are inside Drive Q ? It should only have recovery files
    It likely had a SysVolInfo until you wisely had OP turn it off, Vista. Has the warning gone away?

    To see inside you would need to unhide Hidden files in Folder Options>View, while the partition still has a drive letter.
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