Back up issues

[Mr_Barry]

A mate of mine has an Acer Aspire 5553 . It was set to backup automatically every Sunday morning when he bought it so the D drive has filled up almost completely . How can I get it back to a normal recovery drive in case we need to do a restore in the future? He didn't make recovery discs when he bought it

[AlBags]

Delete the backups?

Look in the backup software to see if the backup data type can be restricted to important stuff only.

[Mr_Barry]

It's Windows 7 backup. There's about 140GB of data which is taking up nearly all of the drive so surely I will have to delete that first? but then how do I go about making a backup to use in the future

[ChuckFickens]

There's not a lot of point backing up to the D drive on the laptop anyhow. the D drive will be a second partition on the same physical drive as the C drive, so if the drive dies you lose your origional data and the backups!

Get an external USB hard drive and backup to that instead.