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Running out of space on Recovery D

by cmdeal Apr 25, 2009 6:22AM PDT

I have Vista Home Premium and I believe I have accidently put stuff on the recovery disk that should not be put there, such as pictures. How do I remove these and how do I know if it is pictures. When I go to the recovery disk and open my name in it, I come up with 1 zip to 33 zip and I am not sure what this is, but i believe it is my pictures. I have a Dell Inspiron 531. Thanks for your help.

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Recovery Partition

by kedscnet Apr 25, 2009 8:58AM PDT

The folder contents of the D: drive are:

Dell
Program Files
ProgramData
Sources
Tools
Users
Windows

There are no files in the D:\ root directory, so anything there can be deleted. Just be careful.

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Well...

by John.Wilkinson Apr 25, 2009 2:42PM PDT

1.) In general, you cannot delete the files from the CD/DVD once burned.
2.) To find out what is in those ZIP archives, try creating a copy on your hard drive and extracting the contents.
3.) You will likely be prevented from editing the contents on the D drive due to the possibility of modifying/deleting key files and rendering it useless. Best to find out what those files are before deleting them!

John

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