Not enough memory

don'tknowalot · 07-13-2009, 06:50 PM

I have Window Vista home edition - A message keeps popping up saying that I have low disk space on Recovery D: but I've gone and done a clean up and still not enough room to do a backup - how do I increase the size of this drive?
I saw something about being able to reduce my C: drive but if I do does that increase my D:?

As you can see I am just a beginner and don't a lot of the technical terms but I would like to try to give my recovery drive more room

Phædrus2401 · 07-13-2009, 07:14 PM

This is actually a hard drive thing, not a RAM thing. Still, we can help you.

I don't know why your recovery partition would be too small, but you can make it bigger. There's a function in Windows to resize your partitions, but I've had bad experiences with Windows' low level functions in the past.

Download GPartedLive: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php and burn it to a CD/DVD (do NOT just copy/paste the file on the CD, you have to use a DVD burning program like Power2Go or some such to burn an .iso to a disk). Then when it's done burning, put the CD in your computer and reboot. If it asks if you want to boot from CD, say yes. You should have to go through a series of menus/questions, just choose the default each time. Eventually you'll get to a screen showing your current hard drive partitions as a divided bar. To make a partition smaller (the big one, probably labeled sda1) right click, select "resize" and shrink it by however much (in your case maybe ~3-5GB). Then select the one you want to make bigger (probably sda2) and expand it to fill all the free space. Click "confirm" (or something to that effect) and let it run. It might take a few minutes, it might take a half hour. When it's done, select exit, restart, then when it tells you to remove the CD and hit enter. Boot into Windows and your C:\ drive should be slightly smaller and your D:\ drive slightly larger.

Stu_computer · 07-14-2009, 02:21 AM

no, don't do that. Recovery D: is the emergency recovery partition. you need to make recovery CD's with those files.

see http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...s&lc=en&dlc=en

**Tyree** · 07-14-2009, 09:16 AM

@ don'tknowalot....Posting your PC specs can prevent situations such as this.
Thankfully, and hopefully, Stu_computer stepped in before you did irreversible damage.

07-13-2009, 06:50 PM	#1 (permalink)
don'tknowalot Registered User Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1 OS: vista	Not enough memory I have Window Vista home edition - A message keeps popping up saying that I have low disk space on Recovery D: but I've gone and done a clean up and still not enough room to do a backup - how do I increase the size of this drive? I saw something about being able to reduce my C: drive but if I do does that increase my D:? As you can see I am just a beginner and don't a lot of the technical terms but I would like to try to give my recovery drive more room

07-13-2009, 07:14 PM	#2 (permalink)
Phædrus2401 Hardware Tech Team Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: New Orleans Posts: 3,863 OS: Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 + Ubuntu 9.04 My System	Re: Not enough memory This is actually a hard drive thing, not a RAM thing. Still, we can help you. I don't know why your recovery partition would be too small, but you can make it bigger. There's a function in Windows to resize your partitions, but I've had bad experiences with Windows' low level functions in the past. Download GPartedLive: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php and burn it to a CD/DVD (do NOT just copy/paste the file on the CD, you have to use a DVD burning program like Power2Go or some such to burn an .iso to a disk). Then when it's done burning, put the CD in your computer and reboot. If it asks if you want to boot from CD, say yes. You should have to go through a series of menus/questions, just choose the default each time. Eventually you'll get to a screen showing your current hard drive partitions as a divided bar. To make a partition smaller (the big one, probably labeled sda1) right click, select "resize" and shrink it by however much (in your case maybe ~3-5GB). Then select the one you want to make bigger (probably sda2) and expand it to fill all the free space. Click "confirm" (or something to that effect) and let it run. It might take a few minutes, it might take a half hour. When it's done, select exit, restart, then when it tells you to remove the CD and hit enter. Boot into Windows and your C:\ drive should be slightly smaller and your D:\ drive slightly larger.

07-14-2009, 02:21 AM	#3 (permalink)
Stu_computer Tech Hardware Team Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,462 OS: Windows	Re: Not enough memory no, don't do that. Recovery D: is the emergency recovery partition. you need to make recovery CD's with those files. see http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...s&lc=en&dlc=en __________________ Last edited by Stu_computer; 07-14-2009 at 02:26 AM.

07-14-2009, 09:16 AM	#4 (permalink)
Tyree Mentor Hardware Team Join Date: May 2009 Location: Illinois Posts: 5,781 OS: XP Pro-7RC-Mandriva My System	Re: Not enough memory @ don'tknowalot....Posting your PC specs can prevent situations such as this. Thankfully, and hopefully, Stu_computer stepped in before you did irreversible damage. __________________ Posting your PC specs will help us to help you quicker and more efficiently.