My system is Windows Vista Premium, with one disk with two partitions
Drive C: 366.35 GB, 85% Free.
Drive D: 7.44 GB , 0 % Free
Constantly comes out a warning sign tellin me that iI have "Low Disk Space", and that I am running out of disk space on Recovery (D) . and instructing me to make a Disk cleanup. I make a disk cleanup and defragmentacion of both partitions, but that does not work.
Can anybody show me how to make a different partition?
‘Partition Magic’ is not sure to work in Windows Vista. The systems that they specify are : Windows XP, and earlier systems. I’d like a program that will work in Windows Vista" .
I would like to increase drive "D at least to 25 GB.

Is there any way a hard drive could be used for years and then not have anything left on it but a few windows icons left on it even with recovery software? The drive was not formatted or wiped. I used a few different programs to recover and nothing but some windows icons was found. Also the drive was clicking the night before and having read/write errors within windows xp.
Is there anyway this could of happen and please provide as much info as you can. Thanks
I have got a new drive but there was stuff on that drive that I would like to recover if I can. Now the drive acts fine and doesn’t click but yet it acts as it was wiped clean. What could of happen.

I used a USB 2.0 to IDE or SATA adapter from Cables to Go to connect the hard drive from my tower pc(running XP) to my new HP Pavilion 9000 laptop loaded with Vista. The hard drive that I connected was the hard drive loaded with the XP OS, and also had a "system restore/recovery" partition on it. It had special recovery software from Emachines (the manufacturer of the PC) I think.

Usually when the Emachines PC is booted, it first shows the main screen with the Emachines logo and also mentions "[F9] for Boot Options] and the like. Then there is a black screen that says "Press [F11] to start recovery __". The "__" is a countdown that always starts from 2 and then goes to 0. When it gets to 0 it always goes to a new screen where it informs you that it is loading Windows XP. I believe the countdown was to inform the user that after 2 seconds, it would be to late to press [F11] and therefore would have to restart the PC in order to perform the System Recovery. Anyway, it no longer behaves the way it should. Now, instead of continuing to the next screen after the count down ends, it posts a new line in the prompt bellow the first one with the same text as the previous line along with a new 2 sec. count down. It repeats the same thing over and over for eternity. I let it cycle through about 300 lines of crap and shut it down. After several more boots, it does the same thing, and the only response to me actually pressing [F11] is that the current line’s count down ends instantly, only to create a new line. Is this because I connected it to a Vista PC? The hard drive definitely works, but why can’t it be booted from? It’s detected by my old PC and it even loads to the "System Recovery" screen, so it must be connecting. Is there some way I can make the hard drive bootable again?

Also, I already tried using the same adapter with my tower PC and tried booting it that way, but it also freezes on the same screen.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

i was installing linux, but by mistake i chose entire device for installing, due to this my previous OS (windows XP) is deleted and cant install linux also.
But when i reinstalled XP, than only C and D drive is showing. when i am clicking on D drive it requires format the drive.
Plz tell me HOW can i recover my all data, i ave some important data.? Should i format first before running recovery tool or after format.

I’d like to swap out the hard drive on my Compaq Persario desktop computer, running Windows XP. The physical part of it I can handle, but is the software end of it as easy as puting my reformat/recovery disc in the disc drive and then booting up on that to load everything I need to have it run correctly? Also, are there any special considerations to think of when looking for the replacemet hard drive?

Thanks!!

my computer is getting frozen, so i want to use the recovery disk to maybe reinstall windows or something similar. do i have to back up all my data in it? or does the disk do this without erasing my own data?
i have windows xp

i need some help plz.
list six recommended tasks or features that i should use as part of my regular disk maintenance schedule. identify the type of task the name of the program how frequently the task should be performed and what precautions i should take and the recommended tasks are performed using tools within windows XP.

I DONT HAVE A RECOVERY DISK AND I DONT WANT TO LOOSE MY WINDOWS XP.

I only have one partition of my hard drive and all my data including windows is in it.

So please someone tell me how do i format my hard drive without a recovery disk but still keeping my Windows.

I have a hard drive with a lot of data on it my windows xp comp can’t see.

I downloaded recovery software, thought it was free but has very limited capabilities unless it is upgraded. The software sees the hard drive, sees the files but it costs and arm and a leg to purchase the upgrade (really hate it when it says freeware but it ends up costing). I think this is a simple problem that the hard drive lost the hard drive map, or something like that and just needs it rebuilt.

Do you know of a recovery software that is free? I mean, really free.

Thanks for helping.

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I recently backed up data onto a external usb drive using the windows XP backup utility.
My 60 GB hard disk (with three partitions) crashed yesterday and is not recoverable. I bought a 250 GB hardisk and have reloaded windows XP. How do I restore the data/programs from my backup drive? I have made three partitions in my new drive. How will the restoration know where to put things, since my new hard disk is larger in capacity?

list six recommended tasks or features that i should use as part of my regular disk maintenance schedule. identify the type of task the name of the program how frequently the task should be performed and what precautions i should take and the recommended tasks are performed using tools within windows XP.

Recently when I am cleaning up my PC by installing Windows XP OS. I have mistakenly made by data hard disk unpartitioned. But didn’t format my hard disk.

I want to get the data back from the hard disk. Please help.