Rescue/Recovery Can't Delete Old Backups
Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 12:24 am
For background, when I first got my Thinkpad T61p it had something like 60% of hard drive already in use. I thought this strange, but at the time I didn't need to save anything big, so working with 30gigs out of 86.5gigs was just fine. Now I've got a lot of pictures from my digital camera, video files, and programs, so I need the extra space.
I Lowered Microsoft's system restore space that was allotted to it, and that helped some. Then I found Rescue and Recovery, saw that it was backing up some gigantic video files, and started deleting old backups. I backup my important files to DVD-R's periodically, so all these 6gig+ backups are unnecessary.
After deleting 3 backups in Rescue and Recovery, it wouldn't delete 2 of them. Trying to delete a 12gigabyte backup (Date of the backup was the day I started up) gave me the error "Rescue and Recovery does not have enough disk space to perform the requested operation." Trying to delete a separate 6gig backup seemed to work, but looking at the available backups screen, it was still there, as if it had never been deleted.
How can I delete these (I've read elsewhere in this forum that they're hidden to everything except R&R, and present problems with removal if the program is uninstalled)? For all reading, thanks for your time.
P.Sp. And as a separate question, I heard of a good free backup program that's a lot less clunky, and forgot the name of it. Was suggested on this forum.
I Lowered Microsoft's system restore space that was allotted to it, and that helped some. Then I found Rescue and Recovery, saw that it was backing up some gigantic video files, and started deleting old backups. I backup my important files to DVD-R's periodically, so all these 6gig+ backups are unnecessary.
After deleting 3 backups in Rescue and Recovery, it wouldn't delete 2 of them. Trying to delete a 12gigabyte backup (Date of the backup was the day I started up) gave me the error "Rescue and Recovery does not have enough disk space to perform the requested operation." Trying to delete a separate 6gig backup seemed to work, but looking at the available backups screen, it was still there, as if it had never been deleted.
How can I delete these (I've read elsewhere in this forum that they're hidden to everything except R&R, and present problems with removal if the program is uninstalled)? For all reading, thanks for your time.
P.Sp. And as a separate question, I heard of a good free backup program that's a lot less clunky, and forgot the name of it. Was suggested on this forum.