Re: Low Disk Space Warning on HP Recovery Disk?

Ted, I don't mind your lecturing, as I'm certain that my 33 years'
experience in the computer business doesn't necessarily make me a
Windows XP expert. And I may have slightly mis-spoken or put an
improper emphasis on things the way I stated them. But in the first
place, the recovery partition is _not_ normally hidden, in the sense
that a file can be given an attribute of 'hidden'. It shows up in 'My
Computer' as a hard drive, and when you click on it, you get a warning
screen not to mess with it. And if you right click on the drive icon,
you can access the 'drive' properties and take certain actions. So the
recovery partion is, again, not "normally hidden". So your assumption
that my son "has clearly tampered with the recovery partition" is not
waranted. It is also _probably_ not correct. He hasn't touched it that
we can determine.

I mentioned that I had him clean the system simply because 95% of the
first responses to posts for help to this group come back with "Well,
have you scanned for viruses and adware?". And I said "pretty well
clean" because, as you point out, these things are insidious and
sometimes hide very well. He's run SpySweeper, Bazooka, SpyBot, Aluria,
PestPatrol, AdAware, and CWShredder. Each one found things the others
didn't. So it's not unreasonable to assume that there may still be some
infection in there that none of them found.

So my original question/problem still stands. What's happening is that
clicking on 'properties' shows the partition to be 4.3 gig in size with
only 31.9 meg free, and a low disk space warning keeps popping up, and
I'd like to know how to correct that situation. Any help in that matter
would be greatly appreciated


>> "I've had him run several spyware/adware cleaners and his system is
>> pretty
>? well clean by now..."
>
> There's your answer, right there.
>
> In the first place, the recovery partition is normally hidden, to
> prevent it from being damaged. Your son has clearly tampered with the
> recovery partition, which is now seriously compromised. Since HP does
> not provide software installation CDs, relying instead on a hidden
> recovery partition, your son's ability to repair or reinstall his
> system is most likely gone. Should your son need to recover his system
> he will need to go to a store and purchase all the software that came
> with his computer.
>
> Secondly, it is not sufficient to be "pretty well clean" of spyware.
> This malicious junk is insidious. A computer is either free of spyware
> or it is not. If he is not able to completely eradicate the spyware it
> will continue to cause problems.
>
> Sorry to sound like I'm lecturing, but your son's problem should never
> have happened. It is entirely self-afflicted.
>

I have a Pavilion desktop and the properties for my recovery partition is
total size 5.27GB and 960MB free. Maybe you need to turn off the low disk
space warning.

"Alan Holbrook" <holbrooka@nospam.charter.net> wrote in message
news:Xns95A86B9A8DE1Cholbrookacharternet@69.28.186.121...
>
>
> Ted, I don't mind your lecturing, as I'm certain that my 33 years'
> experience in the computer business doesn't necessarily make me a
> Windows XP expert. And I may have slightly mis-spoken or put an
> improper emphasis on things the way I stated them. But in the first
> place, the recovery partition is _not_ normally hidden, in the sense
> that a file can be given an attribute of 'hidden'. It shows up in 'My
> Computer' as a hard drive, and when you click on it, you get a warning
> screen not to mess with it. And if you right click on the drive icon,
> you can access the 'drive' properties and take certain actions. So the
> recovery partion is, again, not "normally hidden". So your assumption
> that my son "has clearly tampered with the recovery partition" is not
> waranted. It is also _probably_ not correct. He hasn't touched it that
> we can determine.
>
> I mentioned that I had him clean the system simply because 95% of the
> first responses to posts for help to this group come back with "Well,
> have you scanned for viruses and adware?". And I said "pretty well
> clean" because, as you point out, these things are insidious and
> sometimes hide very well. He's run SpySweeper, Bazooka, SpyBot, Aluria,
> PestPatrol, AdAware, and CWShredder. Each one found things the others
> didn't. So it's not unreasonable to assume that there may still be some
> infection in there that none of them found.
>
> So my original question/problem still stands. What's happening is that
> clicking on 'properties' shows the partition to be 4.3 gig in size with
> only 31.9 meg free, and a low disk space warning keeps popping up, and
> I'd like to know how to correct that situation. Any help in that matter
> would be greatly appreciated
>
>
>>> "I've had him run several spyware/adware cleaners and his system is
>>> pretty
>>? well clean by now..."
>>
>> There's your answer, right there.
>>
>> In the first place, the recovery partition is normally hidden, to
>> prevent it from being damaged. Your son has clearly tampered with the
>> recovery partition, which is now seriously compromised. Since HP does
>> not provide software installation CDs, relying instead on a hidden
>> recovery partition, your son's ability to repair or reinstall his
>> system is most likely gone. Should your son need to recover his system
>> he will need to go to a store and purchase all the software that came
>> with his computer.
>>
>> Secondly, it is not sufficient to be "pretty well clean" of spyware.
>> This malicious junk is insidious. A computer is either free of spyware
>> or it is not. If he is not able to completely eradicate the spyware it
>> will continue to cause problems.
>>
>> Sorry to sound like I'm lecturing, but your son's problem should never
>> have happened. It is entirely self-afflicted.
>>
>
>

I also have an HP Pavilion, my recovery partition (D:) is 5.54 GB in size
with only 630MB free. Is this normal? I am trying to figure out a
memory/disk space error message I am getting but I believe it is referring to
my C: drive, as the only time the message pops up is when I try to open one
particular Word document. My C: drive has plenty of free space but that's
what caused me to look at the D: drive.

BTW, I agree with Alan's observation regarding the accessibility of the
partition. Click on My Computer, and it's right there.

"Ricky" wrote:

> I have a Pavilion desktop and the properties for my recovery partition is
> total size 5.27GB and 960MB free. Maybe you need to turn off the low disk
> space warning.
>
> "Alan Holbrook" <holbrooka@nospam.charter.net> wrote in message
> news:Xns95A86B9A8DE1Cholbrookacharternet@69.28.186.121...
> >
> >
> > > > So my original question/problem still stands. What's happening is that
> > clicking on 'properties' shows the partition to be 4.3 gig in size with
> > only 31.9 meg free, and a low disk space warning keeps popping up, and
> > I'd like to know how to correct that situation. Any help in that matter
> > would be greatly appreciated
> >
> >
> >>>

no thanks

wouldnt use it if you paid me too

these so called recovery disks never work anyway
I just re-format and start again


--
icemanx

How do I turn off the recovery disk? I just want the space.

Z


icemanx wrote:
> no thanks
>
> wouldnt use it if you paid me too
>
> these so called recovery disks never work anyway
> I just re-format and start again
>
>
> --
> icemanx