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Re: Low Disk Space on Lenovo_Recovery (Q:) Partition
Hello all. I have had a Thinkpad T410 for around a month now and I am loving it.
Recently I have been getting a warning saying:
Low Disk Space You are running out of disk space on Lenovo_Recovery {Q:}. Click here to see if you can free space on this drive.
So, I click there to try and free space - there is nothing to delete to free space.
If I go to Computer, it tells me that there is 7.37 MB free of 9.76 GB on the {Q:} partition. Upon double-clicking the {Q:} partition, only two things exist.
Re: Low Disk Space on Lenovo_Recovery (Q:) Partition
Well if you record Recovery Media using Lenovo R&R utility, you can remove this partition Q. If you would like to restore in fututre, everything is on these recoveria medias, it will completelly recover your system and process will recover partition Q as well.
---------------------------------------------------- Lenovo T440s, 20AQ0067MC, Windows 8.1 Pro x64 UEFI, Samsung 840 EVO SSD 250 GB, 8 GB RAM Lenovo T430s, 2356LQG, Windows 8.1 Pro x64 UEFI, Intel 520 SSD 180 GB, 8 GB RAM Lenovo T420s, 4171-6SG, Windows 8 Pro x64 UEFI, Intel 320 SSD 120 GB, 8 GB RAM Lenovo T400s, 2808-CYG, Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Re: Low Disk Space on Lenovo_Recovery (Q:) Partition
Well i think, there is no big reason to "study" content of disk Q, it is really special Lenovo paretition, with own structure, hidden files, files, that cannot be visible by OS. If yoy have Recovery Media, then there is no reason to have this partition Q, you can remove it. You cannot restore only partition Q from Recovery Media, Recovery Media will recover everything, like it was, when you have unpacked your new laptop from the box. I tried these Recovery Media, because i had 32it system, so i have ordered from Lenovo 64bit Windows 7 Recovery Media. It looks like it firstly remove all partitions, then create completely new original partitions on the disk, copy content of partition Q on laptop from Recovery Media and then process in fact recover system partition C from created partition Q. And finally process starts lot of scripts, that install all drivers, applications, etc. Its quite long process, but interesting. Finally you have realy original system, like it was new. Ideal for time i will sell laptop. For my general life, i use Lenovo R&R tool and generate whole system disk C backup on my external disk, i have for this one external disk only for this. Good is, it generates really bootable environment on external disk, so you can boot then directly from external disk to Lenovo R&R and use diagnostic tools, access disk, restore files or whole system C from image. I do backup of system C each Friday, it creates incremental backups. So if something happend (and it already happend), just boot from external disk and do restore and i lose 1 week of data at maximum.
---------------------------------------------------- Lenovo T440s, 20AQ0067MC, Windows 8.1 Pro x64 UEFI, Samsung 840 EVO SSD 250 GB, 8 GB RAM Lenovo T430s, 2356LQG, Windows 8.1 Pro x64 UEFI, Intel 520 SSD 180 GB, 8 GB RAM Lenovo T420s, 4171-6SG, Windows 8 Pro x64 UEFI, Intel 320 SSD 120 GB, 8 GB RAM Lenovo T400s, 2808-CYG, Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Re: Low Disk Space on Lenovo_Recovery (Q:) Partition
After doing some thinking....
I think that when I originally attempted to use the Lenovo R&R tool, I chose to make a whole system backup on the {Q:} partition. (I think it was defaulted to use the {Q:} partition and I missed it.) I remember cancelling the backup because it was going to run out of space and then restarting using CDs.
That must be where all of the memory went. I don't know why it doesn't show up anywhere, though.
Re: Low Disk Space on Lenovo_Recovery (Q:) Partition
Please do and check the following;
open R&R and select the option at the very bottom of the left column in the window, it should say something to the effect of "select advanced view" or something to that effect, sorry but I don't have a system a hand to look at. (Somrtimes the option is almmost half hidden - should be light blue text).
It should then open a window offering more options than on the original screen. One of those options should be to set schedules and options for backups. Check here what the maximum number of backups is set to; if it's set to 3 change that entry to 4, apply and then click ok.
After doing this please try running another backup and let us know what happens.
Andy
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Re: Low Disk Space on Lenovo_Recovery (Q:) Partition
I have the same problem on the thinkpad SL510 (windows 7, 64 bit). I tried the suggestion solution to no avail. Also, after you change the maximum backups allowed, it asks which drive (C or Q) to backup to. Which should I select? I tried C.
Re: Low Disk Space on Lenovo_Recovery (Q:) Partition
Same issue here, I keep receiving the warnig about low disk space (Q partition). I increase the number of back ups allowed from 3 to 4, tried to back up again and the space in Q was not enough. There is something I can't see that is eating about 7 GB of the Q partition. I dont know what else to try!
