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Recovery Partition suffers from Low Disk Space

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At an MVP's suggestion, I did include the the Recovery Partition, "just in case."...

Think of the graphic displays when you click on "Computer" in Windows Explorer in Windows 7 as I describe the following:

In my original Hardrive, (Seagate 1.5 TB) my Recovery Partition had about 1/8 of an inch of white space, if you were to left click on "Computer" Now, on my 500 GB Samsung SSD, the same partition as a mere 20KB left. And now, I am constantly being barraged by ballon allerts saying "Low Disk Space" on the (G:) drive. "Click here to clean the drive." It's not a direct quote, but that's the general idea of the message.

If I had a dollar for every time I tried to get to that bubble before it vanished, or cleaned the drive - I use that term loosely, because there is 0 K to remove from that partition, and yet the bubble keeps on reappearing, again and again.

I had an idea I wanted to run by you guys first...

What if I did one backup "sector by sector" to preserve the size of (G:) and then removed the Sector by Sector option for the next backup? Would that work?

Do you have any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

CotS

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CotS wrote:
 I am constantly being barraged by ballon allerts saying "Low Disk Space" on the (G:) drive.

Why does your Recovery drive have a drive letter assigned - G: ?  This is meant to be a hidden drive not one which is visible in Explorer.

It looks like the Recovery partition was 'automatically resized' when you migrated from your 1.5TB HDD to the new 500GB SSD drive, thus the size has been reduced to a minimum which may also cause you further problems if you they try to include this partition in any future backups where VSS is used, as VSS requires at least 10% free space on each partition where it will try to create a snapshot.

My advice to you on taking a backup of the Recovery partition 'just in case' was to give you a method of putting this back should you get to a point where you needed to do so, but the discussion IIRC was about whether you could leave out these Recovery partitions or not?

If you intend to keep this Recovery partition, then I would advise using a Partition tool such as MiniTool Partition Wizard to take some space from another larger partition to give to the Recovery one to increase its size to accommodate 10% free space.

See webpage: The Recovery Partition After Upgrading to Windows 10 from Windows 7/8 for more information on this subject.

Thanks Steve. MiniTool worked to extend the partition.

The only reason I mentioned your suggestion in the first place, was to give context, and perhaps a clearer post. I'm glad I followed your advice.

CotS