After a couple of months, the backup partition filled up, and the laptop complained every time backup attempted to run.

FORBES: With Rise Of Consumer Mobile Devices, We're All CIOs Now

First, the professional installer had enabled automatic backup between the primary disk partition and a backup disk partition on the same physical disk.

FORBES: With Rise Of Consumer Mobile Devices, We're All CIOs Now

Customers can also free up additional storage space by creating a backup bootable USB and deleting the recovery partition.

ENGADGET: 128GB Surface Pro ships with 83GB free, 64GB has only 23GB