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    HP Recovery D space

    Discussion in 'HP' started by bonVoyage, Aug 26, 2006.

  1. bonVoyage

    bonVoyage Newbie

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    Hi.

    I have a DV2000 and just checked the recovery drive properties after 3 weeks use.
    - used 8.14 GB used; 1.21 GB free space.

    How do I make more free space?
    Is it supposed to take that much space?
    1 GB free space sounds so little as a whole.
    Or should i just leave it as it is?

    I'm asking because I am conerned about what happens when the space is all used up?
    (I made the recovery discs set.)


    The Local D shows I used about 20GB so far (out of 80GB).


    Any comments?

    Ha ha , I kinda feel silly to ask.
     
    bonVoyage, Aug 26, 2006
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  2. ScottM

    ScottM Notebook Geek

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    the space u see on drive D is the recovery partition for HP. You can boot into this recovery feature and recovery to factory settings (including all the bloatware). This is a last resort if you have computer issues.

    The restortion disc's that you created is the same as the partition. You just made a back up of that partition.

    You can now delete the recovery partition and format it so xp can use it. Just make sure your disc's are secure in a good spot.

    If you want you can allow the recovery boot destroy all the data or let xp do the format (I prefer that xp handle it) but your choice.

    Scott
     
    ScottM, Aug 26, 2006
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