error message - disc (D:) too full

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clarissa

I keep getting this message in the maintanence and peformance option on the
Vista Control Panel. I also get mircosoft error messages almost everytime I
shut down. - I have not loaded anything into (D:). The solution I get when
I try support and help options is to remove anything I loaded into this disc
and then that is all they suggest. It has only the software that was loaded
on (D:) when I bought the processor, mouse etc.in Jan 2009. Don't know if
this matters but the processor is a HP Pavilion - Intel Core 2 Quad. The
software is Vista, Microsoft Works and Micro. Office. No games, videoas,
movies etc. They did have to replace my hard drive because it was
defective so I have this new one since June 2009. Can anyone help? I am
just your average retired person with 10 years experience using my own
machine - and trying to understand if this is a software problem or hardware
malfunction.
Thanks for any suggestions. Clarissa
 
clarissa said:
I keep getting this message in the maintanence and peformance option on
the
Vista Control Panel. I also get mircosoft error messages almost everytime
I
shut down. - I have not loaded anything into (D:). The solution I get
when I try support and help options is to remove anything I loaded into
this disc
and then that is all they suggest. It has only the software that was
loaded
on (D:) when I bought the processor, mouse etc.in Jan 2009. Don't know if
this matters but the processor is a HP Pavilion - Intel Core 2 Quad. The
software is Vista, Microsoft Works and Micro. Office. No games, videoas,
movies etc. They did have to replace my hard drive because it was
defective so I have this new one since June 2009. Can anyone help? I am
just your average retired person with 10 years experience using my own
machine - and trying to understand if this is a software problem or
hardware malfunction.
Thanks for any suggestions. Clarissa
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Drive D: is your recovery partition, holding the image that will restore
your computer to factory condition. It should never have anything on it
except for the recovery files. If you have put any files on there yourself,
remove them. As for the error message, see:

HP - Error: Low Disk Space on Recovery (D:)
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01508532&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en

Malke
 
Hi whs thanks for your suggestion. I checked (D:) and only the software
loaded by the store where I bought my computer is on it. I have backed some
files (written notes on a history course but not games, videos, music or
anything other than written notes) but always on (C:). My main concern is
that since I just bought this computer in Jan 2009, is this message [ (D:)
too full ] a software problem in Vista which I hear is a bit unreliable, or
is it a more serious problem in the hardware (I have already had to replace
a defective harddrive last month)? Thanks for any help - despite
questioning HP support and Future Shop I have never received an answer that
is satisfactory - or am I hoping for too much. Clarissa
 
Hi whs I realize now that my last message may have sounded a bit
sarcastic - a thousand pardons - it was not meant that way at all. Clarissa
 
Hi again again whs this may the second message within seconds but --- as
for (D:) the line is blue and it is 1.81GB free of 13.2GB. Thanks
again for any help. Hope one of these gets through OK. Clarissa
 
Hi again whs Well you were right (D:) was checked under DEFRAG - volumes. I
unchecked it. Then went into Advanced reports of the Peformance Inform...
option of Control Panel - and sadly :>0 I still have error message - (D:)
too full - but also - Failure using LxD Loader. This last error about the
LxD thing was on this machine when it was new (as was - (D:) too full )- but
this LxD thing was corrected by Future Shop shortly after I bought the
computer in Jan 2009. Also and maybe I should have said all along (and if
this creates more of a problem I apoligize, ignorance being my only excuse)
but in the Event Log there are always error messages every time I start and
shut down the computer. eg. 300 Standby, 100 Boot Perform... and 200
Shutdown. These have also been there since I bought this maching and now
total 417 - beginning in 3/09/2008 (which is strange since I bought it in
Jan,2009) and up to today. And also I get error software message in those
small boxes in the centre of my screen almost every time I shut down. Woe
is me. What do I do? Once again thanks for sticking with me and thanks for
any help. Clarissa
 
Hi whs I think I may have accidently deleted your email response to my last
email July 14 - what I really need to know because this is a new machine -
is considering the rrror messages I described, is this a software problem
or a hardware one? Please help Clarissa
 
The problem in this case is that there is not really a low disk space
situation. There is more than 10% of freespace. So I am not sure whether
the above procedure would do any good.
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You had better listen to Malke - she's right, you're wrong...

....and you are putting your computer at risk.
 
Can you elaborate please. I am not sure I understand the point you
make.
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Malke's post pointed you to an article at HP instructing you how to stop
the Windows Restore program from trying to put restore points in the
Recovery Partition, which is your drive D:. Please follow those
instructions.

If your recovery partition was damaged (and if you hadn't made recovery
DVDs from it) and if there is a problem requiring restoring your drive to
the factory-new state, you won't be able to do it.
 
Gene E. Bloch said:
Malke's post pointed you to an article
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[snip]

I think you're confused, old bean...

Malke was replying to "Clarissa", the OP. "whs" was trying to help
"Clarissa".
 
whs wrote:

The problem in this case is that there is not really a low disk space
situation. There is more than 10% of freespace. So I am not sure whether
the above procedure would do any good.
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Yes, actually there *is* and it probably would do good. Nothing is supposed
to be on the recovery partition except for the recovery image and related
files.

Malke
 
whs said:
Gene, I fully understand what you are saying. But I do not think we are
facing this situation in this case. She has 1.81GB free of 13.2GB - that
means more than 10% but less than 15%. Normally she should not get the
low disk space warning because that is only issued when you get below
10% free space. When you do, however, want to do a disk defragmentation,
you need at least 15% free space (which is not available here). That's
why I suspected that the D: partition was set to sheduled
defragmentation. I may be on the wrong track but we won't know until
Clarissa has checked the Defrag schedule.
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Hi again whs you were right the DEFRAG for D: was checked so I unchecked it.
But when I went into Performance Infor... under Control Panel the error
message (D: too full) was still there as well as (Failure of LxD Loader) -
this last error message was on this machine when I bought it Jan 2009 but
Future Shop fixed it. I should also mention and I apoligize if I should have
done this sooner, but in the Event Log there are over 400 error messages (eg.
300 Standby, 100 Boot Pefor... and 200 Shutdown) going back to when I bought
this machine to the present. Strangely, there are a few for 3/09/2008 even
before I bought the computer. Also, I get error messages lately in those
small boxes in the centre of the screen almost every time I shutdown. They
disappear before I can record them accurately. What to do, what to do?
Thanks for your contined help. Clarissa
 
Gene E. Bloch said:
Malke's post pointed you to an article
Click to expand...

[snip]

I think you're confused, old bean...

Malke was replying to "Clarissa", the OP. "whs" was trying to help
"Clarissa".
Click to expand...

I just reread the subthread in question. I can tell you that I am not
confused.
 
You had better listen to Malke - she's right, you're wrong...

....and you are putting your computer at risk.

--
Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom

Can you elaborate please. I am not sure I understand the point you
make.

Malke's post pointed you to an article
Click to expand...

[snip]

I think you're confused, old bean...

Malke was replying to "Clarissa", the OP. "whs" was trying to help
"Clarissa".
Click to expand...

I just reread the subthread in question. I can tell you that I am not
confused.
Click to expand...

Or maybe not "not confused" :-)

Reading just the subthread, I'd say my answer was apposite. Also, Malke
gave a related answer to the same post, and she, at least, is intelligent
:-)

Reading the *whole* thread, I have concluded that whs's post was not
clearly phrased, if he meant what you said - but I actually agree with you
now, that it is probably what he meant.

So I withdraw my prior sarcastic remark, now that is it on Usenet forever.
 
Gene E. Bloch said:
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:55:46 -0500, whs wrote:

You had better listen to Malke - she's right, you're wrong...

....and you are putting your computer at risk.

--
Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom

Can you elaborate please. I am not sure I understand the point you
make.

Malke's post pointed you to an article

[snip]

I think you're confused, old bean...

Malke was replying to "Clarissa", the OP. "whs" was trying to help
"Clarissa".
Click to expand...

I just reread the subthread in question. I can tell you that I am not
confused.
Click to expand...

Or maybe not "not confused" :-)

Reading just the subthread, I'd say my answer was apposite. Also, Malke
gave a related answer to the same post, and she, at least, is intelligent
:-)

Reading the *whole* thread, I have concluded that whs's post was not
clearly phrased, if he meant what you said - but I actually agree with you
now, that it is probably what he meant.

So I withdraw my prior sarcastic remark, now that is it on Usenet forever.
Click to expand...

And it's a good thing that you DID, because I was about to unleash an
apocalyptic fury on you as you've never experienced before ;->
 
Hi whs well thanks for all your effort - I am going to stop worrying about -
D: too full - and just screen the other error messages. I was told to
never DEFRAG D: or put anything else on it. Otherwise I like the software
and my computer hasn't done anything nasty or frozen up on me. Thanks again
Clarissa
 
Gene E. Bloch said:
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:16:48 -0500, Bill Daggett wrote:


On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:55:46 -0500, whs wrote:

You had better listen to Malke - she's right, you're wrong...

....and you are putting your computer at risk.

--
Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom

Can you elaborate please. I am not sure I understand the point you
make.

Malke's post pointed you to an article

[snip]

I think you're confused, old bean...

Malke was replying to "Clarissa", the OP. "whs" was trying to help
"Clarissa".

I just reread the subthread in question. I can tell you that I am not
confused.
Click to expand...

Or maybe not "not confused" :-)

Reading just the subthread, I'd say my answer was apposite. Also, Malke
gave a related answer to the same post, and she, at least, is intelligent
:-)

Reading the *whole* thread, I have concluded that whs's post was not
clearly phrased, if he meant what you said - but I actually agree with you
now, that it is probably what he meant.

So I withdraw my prior sarcastic remark, now that is it on Usenet forever.
Click to expand...

And it's a good thing that you DID, because I was about to unleash an
apocalyptic fury on you as you've never experienced before ;->
Click to expand...

LOL...

Somehow I envision *five* horsemen...
 
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