D Drive (Recovery) Low Disk Space warning

Hi

You are not using D for saving personal data to are you? just checking as some users do as they wish to use the recovery partition to increase storage space.


Purge all your restore points, and try on the D drive right click > Properties > Disk Cleanup > All Users and when its done its scan click the More Options tab and then click under System Restore option Cleanup > Delete.

Then see if System Restore is active for D in Advacned System Properties, to get there click Start orb > right click Computer and choose Properties > in left menu click Advanced system Settings > System Protection tab and make sure D is not checked if it is un check it and click Apply


Or you can as that is system recovery partition from Dell ignore or disable low disk warning messages by editing the registry but this is not advisable unless you take that risk that doing something from the steps below may cause PC to go into meltdown! but seriously only take on if you wish too and this is a global setting so disables low disk warning for all drives and partitions

Click Start and in Start Search box type regedit

The navigate to this location HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer and then look for NoLowDiskSpaceChecks in right window panel and if it's not there, create a DWORD value by right clicking in empty space in right window and create DWORD and call it NoLowDiskSpaceChecks

Double-click on NoLowDiskSpaceChecks, and enter the value 1, and
press OK.

 

Hi rodell


TBH I think you can deal with trying the clearing of Restore Points and then checking that D is not ticked/checked yourself, this is not an advanced task, just follow the below quoted text from earlier

Just have a feeling that System Restore is set on the recovery D drive when it should really not be, and each restore point which do get created periodically, will take up HDD space.



I totally agree with your backup routine as its spot on and what I tend to do on mainly an internal large 1TB HDD but also have a few external WD Passport HDDs to backup files too also.

 

Hi dlb

While both rodell and I, do know about the recovery partition and its usage of space and being tight to the partition its on the warnings should not appear? if they do then its likely in systems I have seen that the system builder has not disabled SR for D or the user is saving data to that partition, or other anomalie.

If this is normal on a PC and I have never had one of my laptops* do this with their partitions for recovery then its very poor build on the OEMs part to have end users needing to deal with a message that should not be popping up, each time they boot their PC.


What steps do you take in stopping this message for users or do you just leave it to popup for them?


I know another is to in Disk Managment to remove the drive letter association with that partition as it in reality doesnt do any harm and can be added back.






*I do however after a short while tend to delete all partitions and recreate and reinstall Windows on any laptop I have as I much prefer using Acronis True Image as a backup solution to the recovery partitions.

 

Hi rodell

If SR options didnt work then yes try the removal of the drive letter.

But for Disk Managment then its in Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Managment > Disk Managment.

 

Hi Rodell

SR = System Restore


In Disk Managment an then right click the drive in question choose Change Drive Letter or Mark and then choose Remove, hopfully like others have reported his works fine for you.

 

Cool, glad that option works, PITA to have a popup at each boot, you'd have thought that the OEMs would have factored this in in their default builds!

But glad this option works for you