My wife has a two month old Lenovo ideapad with Windows 7. We are now getting alerts that the D partition is near full. Is this system taking multipul backups of the harddrive C and storing them all? What are my best options to have a safe backup, but not overloading the D partition? I do see in; Computer>System>Device Manager>Disk Drives>D Drive General tab that there are two options at the bottom. option one, (not checked in my case) "Compress this drive to save disk space". Option two, (checked) "Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties" Would selecting option one solve my problem? If this system is saving a snapshot of D over and over, it will only be a matter of time when option one will be overcome. SO, I would think that there has to be a setting that will let partition D delete older backups...right? Would it be a combination of selecting option one and changing a setting that would enable older backups to be automaticaly removed?

Backup depends on your backup schedule plan. The more often you backup the lower is the free space. There is another backup that is creating during update procedure, when restore points are created. I would save backup to external disk, change the backup schedule. Regards Milos

Should I delete all the older backups and select "compress this drive to save disk space?

Hi, We can manage backup disk space. 1. Open Backup and Restore by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, and then clicking Backup and Restore. 2. Click Manage space. If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation. Note: If you haven't set up backup, you won't see Manage space. 3. To change the amount of space that is used by file backups, under Data file backup, click View backups. You can then select and delete older file backups. 4. To change the amount of space that is used by system image backups, under System image, click Change settings. You can then choose to have Windows save older system image backups or just the most recent system image backup. I still suggest backing up to external disk. While NTFS file system compression can save disk space, compressing data can adversely affect performance. Please refer: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/251186Kim Zhou TechNet Community Support

Hi, We can manage backup disk space. 1. Open Backup and Restore by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, and then clicking Backup and Restore. 2. Click Manage space. If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation. Note: If you haven't set up backup, you won't see Manage space. 3. To change the amount of space that is used by file backups, under Data file backup, click View backups. You can then select and delete older file backups. 4. To change the amount of space that is used by system image backups, under System image, click Change settings. You can then choose to have Windows save older system image backups or just the most recent system image backup. I still suggest backing up to external disk. While NTFS file system compression can save disk space, compressing data can adversely affect performance. Please refer: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/251186Kim Zhou TechNet Community Support