Ah, but newer HP computers do use the "D" drive for backup. At least mine does. HP includes HP Recovery software that performs incremental backup of the "C" drive, and adds it to the original "D" drive contents. It works much like True Image, for example. There is even a boot menu that allows you to boot to the "D" drive for recovery.
There are options to burn the increments to a CD or DVD and remove them from the "D" drive, but the default is to leave them on the "D" drive. You can also turn the backups off.
Posted by: Philip Spohn at December 29, 2007 10:53 AM
I get the same low memory on Drive D: message and have since the day I bought this HP Pavilion with Vista. I understand the drive is a recovery disk and not used for any other purpose and I shouldn't mess with it. I dodn't want to mess with it. I just want to STOP the damn warning message from showing up 5o times a day. Do you know of any way to disable the message or otherwise fix the problem
Posted by: JAH at January 1, 2008 7:49 AM
I had the same message about drive D: having low memory all the time which was a real pain. If you don't mind not getting the low memory message even if it's you C: drive then you could go to Task bar Star Menu in Control panel, click on customize (notification) and change low disk space behavior to always hide.
Posted by: Jit Patel at January 3, 2008 11:06 AM
Many HP/Vista users have backed up there files mistakenly on the "D" drive partition which is used for system restore only and is not supposed to be used for backup (HP has set this up as a default in error). The problem that occurs is that once a backup is done to "D" you cannot view the files in Vista that were copied to "D" in error and delete them. Also system restore fails to create successful restore points after the backup
is done on "D". Does anyone have a solution?
Posted by: Gregg at January 7, 2008 12:53 AM
I too have had problems with the D drive partition on HP. When my system did fail,(XP) and I went to use the Recovery File it showed as empty. I ended up upgrading to Windows Vista - luckily I had most important items backed up, but had to purchase programs to run properly with Vista. I have had good luck with Vista, but I am still getting the "D" drive errors telling me that it has low memory. I can't "see" anything in my "D" drive other than an empty Recovery Folder, and would love to get rid of it, since it does not seem to serve any function. Is this possible, or even feasable? What's in there at this point?
Posted by: Sue Gagnon at February 2, 2008 6:30 AM
I too am frustrated because I think I just backed up files mistakingly in the recovery "D" drive also. It wouldn't let me unclick it, and I thought I knew what I was doing. Now I don't know how to undo it either. Do you think it's ok or what should be done??
Posted by: Tracy at February 3, 2008 12:03 AM
I have a friend that has an HP Pavillion 061 with a D: \ Drive set as a recovery Drive. It showed that it had about 100 GB's free space on it. Before I realized my mistake I copied about 5 mb's of MP3's to that drive. I erased the Mp3's but he is now getting a low disc space message on that drive.
Is there anything I can do to correct this?
Posted by: Michael Brooks at February 4, 2008 8:35 AM
Mr. Ask Leo
Just about every owner of a HP Vista computer will get a message that prompts low memory or low disk space on drive d: recovery. You click on the prompt and are asks if you would like to clean the drive to make more space. Then you are given a selection of items to clean. Problem is that next to each choice the prompt states 0 files. You then click on each choice and click OK. But it will prompt you again and again. I have 5 of HP's with Vista and they all do it to some degree, some yo yo at HP did not allow enough space on the recovery partition, Vista has a unknown variable for determining when a disk is full, if you have an extra gigabit of unused space, this prompt will not present itself. I have used Seagate Disk Wizard to mirror on drive to another, this program allows you to chance partition size. You give a little more space to drive D: Recovery and you are no longer prompted with this message.
Now the question at hand is how is this problem addressed without having to install a new drive with Disk Wizard?
Posted by: Bob Harkness at March 1, 2008 3:57 PM
D drive shows less space warning because Windows Backup utility keeeps backing up files to it. Change the back up location to either an external drive or DVDRW.
Leo, I am a research specialist of HP working on HP desktop issues. You gotta check this link. The tech must not have misunderstood the customer, though he used the wrong term as memory. He has set up the back up only for the convenience of the customer. The D drive runs outta space, only because, the back up files of vista get stored over there, by default. we need to delete the baked up files and change the back up path to fix the issue, though setting up back up is entirely up to the user. Please refer to this link for more and detailed info.
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Ah, but newer HP computers do use the "D" drive for backup. At least mine does. HP includes HP Recovery software that performs incremental backup of the "C" drive, and adds it to the original "D" drive contents. It works much like True Image, for example. There is even a boot menu that allows you to boot to the "D" drive for recovery.
There are options to burn the increments to a CD or DVD and remove them from the "D" drive, but the default is to leave them on the "D" drive. You can also turn the backups off.
Posted by: Philip Spohn at December 29, 2007 10:53 AMI get the same low memory on Drive D: message and have since the day I bought this HP Pavilion with Vista. I understand the drive is a recovery disk and not used for any other purpose and I shouldn't mess with it. I dodn't want to mess with it. I just want to STOP the damn warning message from showing up 5o times a day. Do you know of any way to disable the message or otherwise fix the problem
Posted by: JAH at January 1, 2008 7:49 AMI had the same message about drive D: having low memory all the time which was a real pain. If you don't mind not getting the low memory message even if it's you C: drive then you could go to Task bar Star Menu in Control panel, click on customize (notification) and change low disk space behavior to always hide.
Posted by: Jit Patel at January 3, 2008 11:06 AMMany HP/Vista users have backed up there files mistakenly on the "D" drive partition which is used for system restore only and is not supposed to be used for backup (HP has set this up as a default in error). The problem that occurs is that once a backup is done to "D" you cannot view the files in Vista that were copied to "D" in error and delete them. Also system restore fails to create successful restore points after the backup
Posted by: Gregg at January 7, 2008 12:53 AMis done on "D". Does anyone have a solution?
I too have had problems with the D drive partition on HP. When my system did fail,(XP) and I went to use the Recovery File it showed as empty. I ended up upgrading to Windows Vista - luckily I had most important items backed up, but had to purchase programs to run properly with Vista. I have had good luck with Vista, but I am still getting the "D" drive errors telling me that it has low memory. I can't "see" anything in my "D" drive other than an empty Recovery Folder, and would love to get rid of it, since it does not seem to serve any function. Is this possible, or even feasable? What's in there at this point?
Posted by: Sue Gagnon at February 2, 2008 6:30 AMI too am frustrated because I think I just backed up files mistakingly in the recovery "D" drive also. It wouldn't let me unclick it, and I thought I knew what I was doing. Now I don't know how to undo it either. Do you think it's ok or what should be done??
Posted by: Tracy at February 3, 2008 12:03 AMI have a friend that has an HP Pavillion 061 with a D: \ Drive set as a recovery Drive. It showed that it had about 100 GB's free space on it. Before I realized my mistake I copied about 5 mb's of MP3's to that drive. I erased the Mp3's but he is now getting a low disc space message on that drive.
Is there anything I can do to correct this?
Posted by: Michael Brooks at February 4, 2008 8:35 AMMr. Ask Leo
Just about every owner of a HP Vista computer will get a message that prompts low memory or low disk space on drive d: recovery. You click on the prompt and are asks if you would like to clean the drive to make more space. Then you are given a selection of items to clean. Problem is that next to each choice the prompt states 0 files. You then click on each choice and click OK. But it will prompt you again and again. I have 5 of HP's with Vista and they all do it to some degree, some yo yo at HP did not allow enough space on the recovery partition, Vista has a unknown variable for determining when a disk is full, if you have an extra gigabit of unused space, this prompt will not present itself. I have used Seagate Disk Wizard to mirror on drive to another, this program allows you to chance partition size. You give a little more space to drive D: Recovery and you are no longer prompted with this message.
Now the question at hand is how is this problem addressed without having to install a new drive with Disk Wizard?
Posted by: Bob Harkness at March 1, 2008 3:57 PMD drive shows less space warning because Windows Backup utility keeeps backing up files to it. Change the back up location to either an external drive or DVDRW.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?docname=c00859515&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN
Posted by: Santo at March 4, 2008 5:24 PMLeo, I am a research specialist of HP working on HP desktop issues. You gotta check this link. The tech must not have misunderstood the customer, though he used the wrong term as memory. He has set up the back up only for the convenience of the customer. The D drive runs outta space, only because, the back up files of vista get stored over there, by default. we need to delete the baked up files and change the back up path to fix the issue, though setting up back up is entirely up to the user. Please refer to this link for more and detailed info.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?docname=c00859515&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN#N350
Cheers!
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