D Recovery Drive full

Looking at your Disk Mgmt screenshot, I don't see any reason D: cannot be deleted in Disk Mgmt and added to your C: drive. It doesn't appear to be a Recovery Partition, which is to the left of C:

The best recovery method is to save a Win7 Backup Image externally along with your backed up files.

Once deleted, here's how to extend your C: drive: Partition or Volume - Extend

If you want us to take a look at your actual recovery partition, then post back a screenshot of its contents after unhiding files in Control Panel>Folder Options>View.

gregrocker said:

Looking at your Disk Mgmt screenshot, I don't see any reason D: cannot be deleted in Disk Mgmt and added to your C: drive. It doesn't appear to be a Recovery Partition, which is to the left of C:

The best recovery method is to save a Win7 Backup Image externally along with your backed up files.

Once deleted, here's how to extend your C: drive: Partition or Volume - Extend

If you want us to take a look at your actual recovery partition, then post back a screenshot of its contents after unhiding files in Control Panel>Folder Options>View.

Greg, are you sure that little 1.46GB partition is the recovery partition. I know it says so, but it is too small to hold all the system files. Before we don't know what is in the D partition, I would not recommend to delete it.

I finally got into D and it look likes its loaded with backups Here's a snip ..apparently there is imeg left of space..I didn't change the config so I wonder why the default backup was to D
Snip............. do I just delete the backups?
Thanks for the tip on Disk Managerment I'll check it out
Thanks to everyone for their help ..almost done

BTW forgot to tell you ..Animal is the computers name

This is exactly as I suspected. Your files were backed up into there because you did not change the drive letter. You now have to move those backup files to another place. Best is to an external disk or a big USB stick. You can also burn them to DVD, but that is messy and I would not recommend that. And next time you back up your files, change the drive letter from D to your external drive. If you do that, all will be good and your troubles are over.

.made extra recovery dvds....now that I can access D I see each BU is basically a repeat of all the content of the previous , same files, folders..before I could see D I tried to back it up with dvds but it seemed to be endless ..so I used a 16g pen drive and it filled up and back up was incomplete... Can I just delete most of the backup content ..all but the last or just delete common files from previous BU's ..I have changed my backup default to E dvd drive.. Thanks for the link to the partition video ..most helpful
I'll follow the tips
again many thanks gerry

Do yourself a favor and buy an external drive. At this site you find good prices (provided you live in the US). The offerings at that site change daily. A PC must have at least 1 external drive, They are so useful. If you have a laptop, buy a 2.5" USB powered one. With a desktop I would prefer a 3.5" with it's own power. E.g. the 320GB WD for $59.99 is a reasonable deal. But Newegg (a very recommendable company) has deals all the time. just keep watching their site (newegg.com).
In the meantime, I suggest you just copy your own files to the 16GB pen drive. Just use Copy to Folder or drag them over. For your own files, 16GB should be enough. The system backup function copies all kinds of system files that you should not need there.

A related problem. I just installed Win7 on a Vista machine (Win7 Pro will not install as upgrade). Now the D:Recovery drive is the default and all new programs go there. It's full, but C: has plenty of space. Why is D: now the default, and how do I change back to C:?

Could you post a picture of Disk Management. Then we see more clearly what's going on.