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‎06-28-2017 10:55 AM

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Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I do not save anything to the 😧 recovery drive on my machine and I have had my laptop for about 2 years now and the other day I started to receive a notification that my recovery drive.

 

I have read a lot of articles online about this and people suggest deleting files from the drive, but I do not save things to that drive so the only files (shown and hidden files) are all related to recovery.  The backup that is on that drive is only about 1.5GB, but when about 15GB is classified as "other files".

 

So what is the correct way to handle this issue, as in what is a real solution, because there seems to be a lot of options and opinion online about this, like:

 

-Create a new recovery drive abd change the drive name of the current one (this is not a real solution, this is a workaround)

-Change the size of the current recovery drive (this is not a real solution, this is a workaround because it will continue to grow)

-Delete the recover drive (not the best idea just in case I actually need to recover)

-Delete files from the recovery dive (as previously notated, what "files" because the only ones in there are related to recovery and I only have 1 actual backup of my laptop)

-Don't do anything and just make a regedit to stop the notification (again, a workaround)

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