Keep getting 0x81000005 and 0x8004231F errors. Low disk space. I have tried to clean disk drive C but it seems as though recover drive D is full. Didn't know I was NOT supposed to be backing it up there until advised in forum. Can I get more space if I backup onto a flash drive or do I have to buy an external drive? Don't really want to use CD's if I don't have to. Please advise asap. Keep getting low disk space pop-ups alot. Thanks for your help, guys!David Baumgardner1 person needs an answerI do too

This is not a Vista forum. It is an XP forum.Having said that, tell us your computer make and model. Laptop or desktop?The restore partition is supposed to be nearly full. It is designed that way so as not to waste any space not needed by the restore function. You should not attempt to use that partition for anything except to restore the computer to factory condition.You should never attempt to back up a drive to a partition on the same drive. The whole point of backing up is to guard against failure of the physical drive being backed up so of course the backup should be on a different drive or on dvds. Otherwise a drive failure would wipe out the backup also.You can back up the Documents folder to a flash drive, but you should back up the C: drive to a different hard drive. I do my backups to external drives. Using an external drive is not a bad idea.Colin Barnhorst