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?

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
news:EEE68794-E244-4337-B63E-E0B9D46954B7@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> 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]

I take it, then, that there is no way to make automatic backup overwrite its
oldest backup image? Pretty silly. Thanks for the advice.

"Earle Horton" wrote:
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> 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
> news:EEE68794-E244-4337-B63E-E0B9D46954B7@microsoft.com...[color=green]
> > 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]
>[/color]