My harddrive eating up space! :S

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  1. Posts : 30
    Windows 7 Build 7100 64-bit
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    My harddrive eating up space! :S


    Hello, my local disk (C:\) is barely any files on it (except from some games) its aprox 17-18gb of games and stuff there, but when i run a disk analyzer it stands that its 45gb of files, and the only thing i have there is some text documents like some install s*** and stuff

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  2. Posts : 18,404
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
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    LazyFunker said:
    Hello, my local disk (C:\) is barely any files on it (except from some games) its aprox 17-18gb of games and stuff there, but when i run a disk analyzer it stands that its 45gb of files, and the only thing i have there is some text documents like some install s*** and stuff

    here u can see:

    Hi Lazyfunker,

    It is system Restore points and Shadow Copies taking up the space. You can read Brink's tutorials on Disk Cleanup and System Restore.

    System Restore

    System Protection Restore Points - Delete

    And also read this one, it will explain why it takes up space.

    But Read the warnings, if you delete all but the last restore point to get your space back, you won't have the other points to fall back on if you need them.


    System Restore - disk space - Vista Forums
    Last edited by Airbot; 05 Jan 2009 at 13:33.
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  3. Posts : 30
    Windows 7 Build 7100 64-bit
    Thread Starter
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    Uhm... I just installed Vista on my C HW now so I will wait a little a bit before i will delete the system restore. Thanks for the help btw. :)


    But i dont think it will take up space on C when i got it installed on my D drive
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  4. Posts : 4,364
    Windows 11 21H2 Current build
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    Better check your System Restore settings - be default it comes enabled on all partitions and drives, IIRC....
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  5. Posts : 18,404
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
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    Mine was disabled and set at about 1gb space after install.
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  6. Posts : 4,364
    Windows 11 21H2 Current build
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    Not mine - all three of my HDs had it enabled and I had to manually disable them.

    Then again, I don't have any other OSs booting on this machine at the moment....

    My harddrive eating up space! :S-windows-7-build-7000-system-restore-settings.png
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  7. Posts : 18,404
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
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    Welp, I have 7 on a 50 gig partition and I found it to be disabled and about 1 gig of usable space when I discovered that there was no "More Options" Tab using the same steps for Disk Cleanup as in Vista. I told Shawn in the Disk Cleanup tutorial.
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  8. Posts : 31,242
    Windows 11 Pro x64 [Latest Release and Release Preview]
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    Hi all,

    System Drive only and set to 3% here and that is OOB. Multi-booting with vista and with 2 other NTFS partitions plus 1 NTFS drive
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  9. Posts : 22,814
    W 7 64-bit Ultimate
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    Hi!

    Mine was only active on C:, set at 12% if I remember correctly; it's now set at 4GB.

    I was booting Vista and XP when I installed 7000 this time. (to get a pic )















    Later ted
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  10. Posts : 30
    Windows 7 Build 7100 64-bit
    Thread Starter
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    Ok, thx for the help once again. I will take a look at it tomorrow :)
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