How to ERASE D Drive or HP Recovery Drive--It's full but old

[TY965]

No error messages.  Nothing is wrong.  I just wanted to start using the drive again with newer recovery options since I haven't use that Drive at all for some time.  I have only used disks.  Would like to have my HP Recovery Drive (D) start doing automatic backups again.

[banhien · Accepted solution]

@TY965

Since you already have working Recovery disces, you don't need Recovery 😧 you can delete 😧 and or format it using Windows Disk Management. Please use the following tutorials to do this

              http://www.disk-partition.com/windows-10/windows-10-disk-management-0528.html

Since C: and 😧 are on a SAME physical HDD, no point to backup C: on 😧 because when physical HDD failed the backup could be useless. I would use external HDD to do the backup.

Regards.

[TY965]

THANK YOU!!!

[TY965]

THANK YOU!!!  That information is invaluable!  I will do as you suggest!

If the  Recovery Drive (D) is on the same Hard Disk as the C Drive and if C Drive Fails it will be useless anyway, why was I having my drive automatically backed up there for the last several years? 

Also, what will it (D Drive) be good for once I erase it?  Is there any point to erasing it?

  I have 87% free space on my hard drive as it is right now. 

I don't know anything about external hard drives, but would like to learn.  I assume that HP has a tutorial on that as well?

Uh Oh....  I just realized that the tutorial link that you provided is for Windows 10 and I have Win 7 64 bit. Will it still work for  Windows 7 ???

I have intentionally avoided upgrading to 8, 8.1 or 10, for a number of reasons.   I don't trust the newer versions and I have been so happy with Win 7.  I wish they wouldn't force people to upgrade by making things obsolete for older desktops and Win versions.