Recovery Drive Gone
Feb 14, 2010
After some major problems with my system, I had to perform a complete reinstall of Vista. The folks from Dell talked me through it. But now, in my My Computer window, where it used to show my 2 hard drives plus the Recovery Drive, it no longer shows the Recovery Drive. I was relatively sure that space was partitioned off of my C drive, but it's not showing up. there's a possibility that a technician hid it while remotely accessing my system. Is there a way for me to check?
if there is no Recovery Drive, how much should I worry (it sure didn't help me LAST time the computer needed restoring)? I am planning to get an offsite backup a la Carbonite or an external drive for backups soon. For all I know, that makes the Recovery Drive a moot point anyway, but I'm not sure.
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Dec 7, 2009
I would like to know can I formate my recovery d drive to clean it up it is full and can I start over with a new restore point and if I do formate d drive will it stop some programe from working or do any damage to c drive.
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Feb 28, 2009
Hi like many i have a recover drive D:
is there a way to get rid of the "drive" and restore it to the C: drive. since all it is, is a partition of the C: drive. Unless there are any programs that use D: are there?
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Jul 29, 2009
I've been reading threads about getting the 'low on space' on D drive to find out how to clean up my drive after using it for back-up, unfortunately. I see a list of files that should be there are Dell, Program Files, Sources, Tools, Users and Windows. However, there are folders within folders within folders in these files in my D drive, so I'm wondering if I can safely delete any of them.
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Mar 5, 2010
I keep getting a message that my recovery drive E is almost full and I need to delete some of my programs. My C drive is fine and has plenty of room. I have talked to Dell and the tech man was not following my problem. I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 x64 bit. He said I would just have to put up with this message and not to delete any of the recovery drive. I don't think he is right. When I follow the directions..it says to delete all of my recycle (which I did) and free up disc space.
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Sep 16, 2009
I inserted the media direct cd for vista like the web site said to do I could see the recovery directory, the c drive and the media drive. it asked me to put in how much space i wanted for the c: so i put in 137 like it said. so now the recovery drive is gone. I put the reinstall dvd in and it says it is copying windows then extending files and then installing files then it goes to the completing installation and then it takes over 2 hours.
when it restarts it has an arrow on the screen and it stops there. on the web site it says it is to come up with a user name and password page but we never see that part. Any idea's what i need to do? If I put a windows xp cd in it got to the install screen and when I click enter so it will find a previous version and ask to format the computer halts so it doesn’t damage the drive.
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Mar 31, 2010
I have the problem with Vista where Updates are downloaded but then will not install etc. I do NOT have a Vista CD as Vista was preinstalled on a Dell 540 Desktop. I do have the OEM number as shown in system files. I want to be able to reinstall Vista and hope that will fix the problem - but I don't want to have to reinstall any programs or lose any files already on the computer. Can anyone advise how to re-install Vista from the Recovery Drive or elesehwre on my computer?
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Mar 20, 2009
I want to format my vista to reinstall it with my recovery drive. Here`s the question when i bought my pc i made 3 other partition on my hard drive. If i reinstall with the recovery drive will it reset my partition and put it back has one hard drive?
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Aug 17, 2009
One of my neighbors installed Norton 360, she says it told her it needed to update some plugins, once it was done, it said it needed to restart windows to finish installing the plugins... she was never able to boot to desktop after that.without asking for help, she went ahead and did a complete System Restore and she is now without pictures, documents and other very important data. I installing "On Track Easy Recovery Pro 6.12" on the fresh drive and use the featured they have to recover data from Freshly installed and Reformatted drives but I was unable to get anything out of it... all I got was what it was already there from the fresh install. She is using Windows XP pro w/Media Center and this is a Vista forum but I got nowhere else to go and I don't trust anybody else. I was thinking that if I install the software on my PC and use her drive as a slave or with a USB/SATA adapter I could get more data but I am thinking that it will yield the same results. I have recovered data before but it has been on a dying but Unformatted drive... is there anything else I can try? any other software that you have first hand experience with cases similar to this? would anyone know if Norton 360 has some sort of reverse feature that I could use in order to get this back or am I just that naive I need to help them as they have always helped us out and this could be a good way to repay them back... they are like family. Whatever you can suggest, it will be greatly appreciated I also have a software call "Recover my files" that I have also had some good results with but again... never with a reformatted/fresh install OS drive.
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May 16, 2009
My Dell does not have TPM. I am using bitlocker with a USB. I notice that the Recovery drive is neither protected nor eligible to be protected. I am wondering whether this is a weakness in my protection.
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May 2, 2009
My Vista desktop took forever to shut down last night and today it will not start at all. The hard drive spins briefly and then gives up. I have a recovery disk the CD drive lights but it will not start from there. I would like to get it up briefly to be sure I have no new photos to back up. I have Wubi Ubuntu installed and if I could get the thing started at all, I would be able to use it to make sure I can recover anything that I desperately need. I tried to start it with PC Linux OS which is capable of running from the CD drive, but no joy there either. I would love to give you more specifics but I can't since I can't view the info, I can't. It is an E-machine, one of their T series with 180 gig hard drive. It's got lots of RAM. I was running Vista but it was an upgrade from XP.
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Jun 14, 2009
I'm working on a Gateway LX 6810-01 and he completley reformatted his hard drive. He ordered some factory discs to restore to factory settings but when it loads it up it just hangs.
I made a vista 64 recovery disc and it loads up.. When it does it asks for the Dvd/cd Rom driver.
The device is a HL - DT - ST DVDRAM GH15F SCSI Cdrom Device
It lets me serach for it and flash drive is an option and I have one handy, however I can't just find the driver I need and put it on this flash drive for the computer I'm working on.
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Apr 29, 2008
my c drive it says i have 1% left ! i have used disk cleanup and defag but it didn't help ,plus i remove programe ,cookies and temp internet, can i do a recovery using my backup files? i only had this computer for one year
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Mar 31, 2010
i m trying to find a recovery disc for the acer aspire m1610 system. i totally screwed up my hard drive and have lost the entire recovery partition. if any1 has a m1610 i would appreciate if you could get an ISO image from the eRecovery application. i tried installing eRecovery back onto the system but everytime i do, an error pops up and says "Not D2D System, eRecovery cannot be installed."
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Jun 15, 2008
I have a inspiron 530s computer, it has two hard disk drives. The os (c drive and the recovery (ddrive. The os drive is only about 25% full but the recovery drive is 99% full. It keeps telling me my backup failed that i need to free up space, but i don't know what to do or what to delete.
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Feb 20, 2009
I have a computer from HP, Hp Pavilion 3200n slimline, running vista 32, 4 gb Ram, Athlon 64X2, I have my C: drive partitioned to accomidate for the making of the recovery disks. Can I remove the D: to make my C: drive bigger?
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Dec 13, 2009
I ran a sfcscan and... It seems I have some corrupt files. This laptop doesn't have a recovery/reformat drive or i'd just reformat the laptop. Moreover, I don't have a recovery disc for vista, just Win-7. Perhaps anyone can pinpoint me in the right direction? I have the CBS file... However it's close to 24MBs...
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Jul 2, 2009
I bought Ultimate w/SP-1 OEM 64 bit. I currently have Home Premium 64 bit. Can I just install Ultimate on top of Home Premium---or should I uninstall it? If I uninstall Home ver during installation of Ultimate, why would I need to keep the recovery copy of Home ver on "D" that came with the computer?
Shouldn't I get rid it and free up that partition for other use... then just make a complete computer recovery copy and store it on the USB external drive? I like what I have read a litte about the Maxtor One Touch backup--- but have never used it. I presume it will do a complete computer back up?
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Apr 9, 2008
I am having tons of issues with my pc (vista home premium). I think the registry might be corrupted. No one seems to know how to remedy the problems. I was thinking about using the recovery dvd's for my laptop. i use this pc for work and have thousands of email, onenote, vpn....etc. i understand this will erase my hard drive and one of the problems i am having is "windows back up" doesnt work (ironic)... is there some sort of way i can back up my computer then reinstall vista(use recovery dvd) and transfer that backup to my laptop. If i create an image with back up software will that just reinstall all the corrupted files (registry..etc)...is there anyway to reinstall vista without erasing the hard drive?
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May 12, 2008
I had my hard drive from my laptop die a few days ago. I was able to recover almost all of the files except for a few Windows file to an external hard drive enclosure. The old laptop was a Vista Home Premium unit and the new laptop is Ultimate. If it's of any consequence or usefulness, the recovery software I used was from R-Studio. How my files and programs to the new laptop I'm using? I contact Gateway for support and they were useless. Windows was not the issue, it was a faulty hard drive.
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Mar 23, 2008
I have Vista Home Premium on my one yr old HP laptop. I keep getting a popup indicating low disk space on my "D" recovery drive and have to delete files from my trash. Since the "D" drive is FULL, I have NEVER been able to do a full backup.
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Jun 2, 2009
A customer asked if he created the recovery disc would he still have a complete working recovery partition. He is in fear of creating the disc then losing them.
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Jun 2, 2009
4JHA.3676@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl> A customer asked if he created the recovery disc would he still have a complete working recovery partition. He is in fear of creating the disc then losing them.
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Apr 5, 2008
I received a new Dell "XPS" 420 desktop with Vista Ultimate installed. It has a Recovery drive (D which I don't understand? I backed up my files with the restore option offered. Now I keep getting messages that this drive is full! I'm not sure whether I should delete everything on it or not? Or, whether my backing up of my files had anything to do with loading this drive up?This drive has a 16GB capacity . Of what value is it, if any?
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Sep 23, 2009
I want to create a recovery partition on my windows Vista laptop. Pretty much i want to be pompted when the pc boots to hit f10 and have a count down of 10 seconds. I know this would be done through boot.ini however i have no idea how to do so. Also id make a seperate partition on my hd of ten gigs just for the backup image.
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May 2, 2008
I am Using Vista Ultimate 64. I would like to tranfer my entire drive incuding all files and the Operating system From my current IDE HDD to a new SATA Drive of the sames size (500 Gig) I need the IDE Drive for an older computer ( The 40 Gig IBM Deathstar still functions great, but all programs seem more bloated these Days)
Anyway I went to Administrative Tools and Formated the New Drive NFTS with no Drive Letter. But I cannot get it recognized as a transfer device when I go to system backup. Can I use 'C' on the second and soon to be only drive? If I have to use E or F for now can I change it back later. would that affect the file system? I intend to Low level Format the IDE and try cloning the old machine's XP Drive (32 bit) to it in the second place.
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Jan 2, 2010
I'm running Vista on a PC that has a hd that has been formated into 3 discrete drives.Vista is loaded onto the C drive, programmes are loaded onto the d drive while i have my data stored on my E drive. By default any documents I save are directed towards My Documents on the C drive - how I go about changing that so the default is my Documents on the E drive?
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Mar 23, 2008
when booting up from a vista cd I accidentally had my usb external hard drive plugged in and the drive has been emptied and replaced by windows there are sintimental photos etc on the drive can anyone help me to restore them
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Jul 2, 2008
Does 'Local Disc' D mean it is a drive inside my machine or could it be my external hard drive?
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Jul 29, 2009
i just bought My Book Essential 1 TB today... and when i got home i plug it and it works just fine but its bothering me that the HDD type is FAT32 .. so i format it and try to change it to NTFS.. but somethings happen and boom the electric in my apartment was down... and so when the electric back i want to format it again but i can't... there drive is detected but with no space detail... it says "Windows can't format Drive H: - Check to see that the disk and drive are connected properly, make sure that the disk is not read-only, and then try again.
For more information, search Help for read-only files and how to change them" when i open the Disk Management from (My COmputer > Manage) it seems it's already a volume.. but the weird thing there is no space detail.. and i cant erase the volume ... i've tried using diskpart but i can't do nothing because there is no volume and i can't erase the disk... no luck with fsutil cause its not ntfs... I havent tried 3rd party software and i havent tried it on other computer (don't have other computer right now) and WDC didnt give live cd for formatting because all of them was in the drive... though i already redownload it but the program is useless..
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Apr 17, 2008
I was wonder if anyone know a solution for the following problem. I have a ethernet hard drive and I've never had a problem until using vista and windows server 2008. both operating systems are unable to browse the drive, instead it completely crashes explorer.exe. Windows server 2003 & XP have never had trouble.
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