Rescue/Recovery Can't Delete Old Backups

[Lengis]

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.

[mgo]

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.

If you just want to back up your personal data files, Vista has Robocopy on board. It is super fast and requires very simple batch files to run. Also the freeware version of Syncback has a easy to use user interface and is also very fast.

Both are reliable and stable.

[MeCasa]

I ran into the same problem but luckily my HD was partitioned with the backups on their own partition so I just formatted the partition.

But it doesn't make any sense.

[Lengis]

I ran into the same problem but luckily my HD was partitioned with the backups on their own partition so I just formatted the partition.

But it doesn't make any sense.

Yeah, if its on a separate partition, I can't find it.
Its annoying that 18 gigs out of my 86 gigs are tied up in something I don't want (20% of my HDD). Anybody solved this problem?