That is not a good place to put backup files, because you may need to
recover the system using the files that are legitimately on the recovery
partition. The recovery partition is not a good size for making backups
either, as you have noticed. Go to the nearest Office Depot or equivalent
and purchase a USB hard drive. They are big and cheap. I got a 150 GB
model for around a hundred dollars.

Earle

"Brian P" <BrianP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have a Dell notebook with Vista Home Premium. The Hard drive came
> partitioned into the C: drive and D: drive (a 10GB recovery partition). I
> set Automatic Backup to create backup files on the D: drive, and it worked
> fine. However, the backups filled the D: drive within a few months and
> now
> when backup runs I get a message saying that the backup failed because
> there
> isn't enough space on the D: drive. How do I remedy this? Is there a way
> to
> make the backup utility overwrite the oldest backup files?[/color]