Hi,

I have bought an Alienware MX14-R2 with Dual drives i.e. one 64GB SSD and a regular 500 GB HDD. Now, the problem is that the C> drive is already full, with no big programs installed.

While I was searching for the problem I discovered

1) that Win 7 Pro uses as much as 20 GB Space on the drive (!) and

2) the Alien Respawn software is part of the problem. It came pre-installed with the laptop and blocks a 18 GB (!) hidden partition 'recovery' on the SSD drive! What kind of sick configuration is that? First of all: why should anyone create the recovery partition on the same drive as the system partition? And second, why would someone do that especially on a 64GB small SSD???

Now I want to remove this Alien Respawn software, but my question is: will this erase the recovery partition as well? Probably not, right? How can I delete the recovery partition?

And second question: the program bugs me right from the start to upgrade to some advanced version, where it offers the features necessary to make it a real useful backup software. Does the advanced version offer the opportunity to select the destination path for the backup files i.e. to some other partition?

Thanks for any help in advance!

Konne