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?