My harddrive eating up space! :S

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

Better check your System Restore settings - be default it comes enabled on all partitions and drives, IIRC....

Mine was disabled and set at about 1gb space after install.

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....

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.

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

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