almost full recovery drive

[Parislaptop]

my recovery drive  has turned red. there is a file of 570 mb inside despite 15 gb space. want it back to normal (at least half empty) is it possible to reduce its size by removing my personal datas from other drives? may be this image is a reflection of all files stored on my other drives (like image of them). recovery should be the original laptop softwares and drives to be able to go back anytime you want. no need for hp to take image from my datas and keep it on recovery drive have made different drives just to be ablae to save them safely . so what is the reason of having such a huge recovery files.it shows 15 gb is almost full.but there is just a 570 mb file inside .even i tride to show the hidden files but nothing inside. may be hp hide it inside that drive to keep it safe.good. but how to return my rocovery drive again half full and not red.please help me about it. many thanks.

[WAWood · Accepted solution]

Parislaptop

Hello;

Allow me to welcome you to the HP forums!

The ONLY way to return the Recovery partition to its original condition is to do a complete erasure of the hard drive and reconfiguration of the PC to it's original factory condition using HP Recovery Media -- and, as said, that will remove EVERYTHING on the drive!

If you have image backups, as you claimed, then you really don't need that partition and can safely remove it to recover that space.

If Windows won't let you remove that partition, then try using this: Best Free Partition Manager for Windows | MiniTool Partition Free

Good Luck

[Parislaptop]

Thank u so much to reply so soon. Does this erasure will erase the 2 partitionthat i have made except c drive? So i have to expect their erasure too? And obviously it will install a new windows 7 on it right?