HP Recovery partition
- From: "John" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:27:37 -0400
Hello. A family member recently got a laptop, which she's more or less been
abusing (e.g. not shutting down properly). It's call HP Pavilion dv6500
Notebook PC. Follwoing are the epcifications:
AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual Core PRocessor TK-55 1.88 Ghz
32 bit operating system
Windows Vista Home Premium
140 Gb hard drive
When I right-clicked My Computer or whatever to get the specifications, I
noticed an icon indicating (I presume) another hard drive that had the
description:
HP Rocevery 1.81 GB free of 8.42.
Then presuming that this was a recovery file full of junk that had collected
there on account of her improperly shutting down the computer (e.g. when
programs are still running), I right clicked it, when I got the following
disconcerting message:
Recovery Partition warning: Area HD files used for PC recovery. Don't delete
or alter files. Any change to partition could prevent any recovery later.
Obviously, I didn't do anything when I got this message. However, it doesn't
make sense to me that this "partition" or whatever it is would be almost
full when she hasn't had the laptop for that long, and hasn't used it
extenisvely.
So, with that said, my question is whether the situation I'm describing to
you is normal. If it's not, what do I need to do in order to fix it?
.
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