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‎04-27-2017 11:32 AM

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Product: Pavillion P7-1205
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Hi

I bought my HP desktop with Windows 7 installed. I upgraded it to Windows 10 last year with no problems. My question concerns the HP Recovery disk. I have only 2.22 GB free of 17.8 GB. I can't seem to find any clear and simple ways to address this problem. My OS (C) drive has 1.68 TB free of 1.80 TB. I use a Lacie external hard drive to run backups through the Windows backup and restore.

 

I am worried about the HP Recovery disk running out of room. Can I make it larger, I have lots of free space on my C drive?  Are there any files such as deleted items or recycle bin items that I can safely delete? Are there old Windows 7 files that I can safely delete? Anything else that can be safely deleted or any regular maintenance that can free up space?

 

Thanks, Rob.  

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‎04-27-2017 12:28 PM

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Hi,

 

Please don't touch to it and don't store anything on it, it will stay as it is and will never run out of space.

 

Regards.

BH
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‎04-27-2017 02:20 PM

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Hi,

 

Thank you for your reply. I do not use this drive for anything, so will not store anything on it. I was starting to worry as it seems to be getting full, and when I Googled this, it seemed that there were a lot of people whose PC's stopped working as they had run out of space on their Recovery drive. How will it never run out of space?

 

Thanks. 

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