I'm a newbie. Made recovery discs for the OS-but keep can't make back-up.
I'm told I do not have enough disc space. What do I do?
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keep it simple, stupid

In backup select to only backup personal data, setting & folders, If you back
up the whole main drive, yes you will need a large space on what ever drive
you save your backup to.
If you need to recover, it recovers to the state it was to manufacturers
setting.
You will have to reload any programs you installed from the original disks,
and then reinstall your data, etc.
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Regards
Bob J


"mariaj" wrote:
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> I'm a newbie. Made recovery discs for the OS-but keep can't make back-up.
> I'm told I do not have enough disc space. What do I do?
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> keep it simple, stupid[/color]

In backup select to only backup your personal, data, folders & settings.
If you backup your whole drive, yes you wiil require a large amout of space
on whatever drive you select to put your backup onto.
You should backup onto another drive /partition or another type of device
like a flash drive/SD Card, because if you place your backup on the the main
drive and you have a breakdown you will not have access to your backup
files(they will be gone too.)
If you need to recover it will only recover to the state the PC was in to
manufactures setting, and you will need to reinstall any programs you
personally installed from original disk or what ever source you got them
from, plus your personal data, folders & settings.
Just like starting again.

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Regards
Bob J


"mariaj" wrote:
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> I'm a newbie. Made recovery discs for the OS-but keep can't make back-up.
> I'm told I do not have enough disc space. What do I do?
> --
> keep it simple, stupid[/color]

Do you mean Recovery disks for a factory default re-installation?
Recovery Disks from a factory Recovery Partition?

If so, contact your computer manufacturer. The program to make Recovery Disks
is not a part of Vista. They will have to help you or send you Recovery Disks.

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I Bleed Blue and Gold
GO BEARS!


"mariaj" <mariaj@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9DF82F1E-B18C-405F-9441-DEA7D9C029AA@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> I'm a newbie. Made recovery discs for the OS-but keep can't make back-up.
> I'm told I do not have enough disc space. What do I do?
> --
> keep it simple, stupid[/color]

Thanks to all for responding. You probably will find this difficult to
believe, but I don't understand most of what you are saying- I am VERY NEW.
I made the back-up copy of my os, (just learned what os means) and I want to
back up, as recommended my files? I don't have enough disc space- I, also,
keep getting a message that my disc space is low. D drive is full, C drive
has alot of space. I am spending hours trying to find out what the
difference is between C & D- maybe I could move stuff? - but I don't know
how.

Having been reading these forums for days, looking for answers, I realize
everyone on here is far advanced over me. I"m sorry to be so ignorant-but,
it did say this was a "newbie" forum- maybe that only means "newbie" to
Vista, not to computers-because most of what I read here is totally over my
head, and not useful to me. If anyone knows a good, simple forum for someone
like me it would help. I can't even get my anti-virus program installed,
with help from the mfg. because I don't understand what they're talking
about. I'm just really, really frustrated.

Thanks
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keep it simple, stupid


"Cal Bear '66" wrote:
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> Do you mean Recovery disks for a factory default re-installation?
> Recovery Disks from a factory Recovery Partition?
>
> If so, contact your computer manufacturer. The program to make Recovery Disks
> is not a part of Vista. They will have to help you or send you Recovery Disks.
>
> --
> I Bleed Blue and Gold
> GO BEARS!
>
>
> "mariaj" <mariaj@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9DF82F1E-B18C-405F-9441-DEA7D9C029AA@microsoft.com...[color=green]
> > I'm a newbie. Made recovery discs for the OS-but keep can't make back-up.
> > I'm told I do not have enough disc space. What do I do?
> > --
> > keep it simple, stupid[/color]
>
>[/color]