Solved Free space suddenly vanishing

[Kumaranil1918]

I had deleted some games from my C drive few months bac.. I had a free space of around 5 or 6gb of 24.6gb.. I restarted my system den after some time C drive was in red colour n i had only 1gb free space of 24.6gb i don kno were d free space went or wat occupied it?? I used ccleaner,disk cleaner but all in vain... I m posting my pblms lately bcoz i'm new to this forum n my pblms are solved here... Pls help me with dis also... Till now d c drive is in red colur only..

 

[pparks1]

Download something like Windirstat or TreeSizeFree. Both can show you which folder is consuming all of the space.

 

[Kari]

In my opinion you simply have too small C: drive (24.6 GB). Consider replacing it with bigger, otherwise you are going to be pretty much all the time on red.

Kari

 

[DeaconFrost]

I'm guessing you either have a small SSD or created a tiny partition on a larger drive. If the first, you'll probably want to get a biger drive. If the second, you might want to rethink your partition sizes.

 

[mjf]

I would consider 25GB far too small for OS/programs.
Personally:
64GB min SSD (Many think this is plenty).
100GB on a 500+GB spinner

when I get around to buying an SSD I'll be going for 128GB (Crucial).

 

[whs]

Check the shadowstorage. The cmd command is:

vssadmin list shadowstorage

 

[Kumaranil1918]

Check the shadowstorage. The cmd command is:

vssadmin list shadowstorage

I hav uploaded its screenshot.. wat shall i do now??

 

[whs]

Hmm, the shadowstorage is NOT the culprit. There is less than 1GB allocated. You can leave that alone.

 

[1994F7PT]

what is shadow storage specifically? is it tied to backup and restore?

 

[ignatzatsonic]

what is shadow storage specifically? is it tied to backup and restore?

Shadow Copy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It's directly related to System Restore

 

[1994F7PT]

ah okay, well mines disables and i have 5Gb still allocated according to the command line, can i remove it and will that give me an additional 5gb on my drive or not? i disabled restore through the GUI and gained around 8gb back already iirc

cheers

Ben

 

[whs]

If you disabled restore, it should all be gone. Where do you see the 5GBs.

 

[ignatzatsonic]

i disabled restore

That's usually a very bad decision unless it's a short-term situation where you are really in a jam for space.

System Restore is a highly valuable part of Windows. I'd give it at least 3 to 5 GB unless I was suffering with a very small drive. Even then, I'd try to find another way to save space.

 

[whs]

In principle I would not disagree. But system restore is a very iffy function and often restore points vanish for no apparent reason.

For backup protection I really recommend to go with imaging (but not the windows imaging, that sucks). Restore points i keep only out of tradition hoping they stick around.

 

[sinbin]

man 24 gb are you kidding me op!
get bigger drive,but wait till the prices go back to normal!
thailand flood is making hdd expensive

 

[1994F7PT]

If you disabled restore, it should all be gone. Where do you see the 5GBs.

i see it here, its allocated but not actually in use, is that right?

i disabled restore

That's usually a very bad decision unless it's a short-term situation where you are really in a jam for space.

System Restore is a highly valuable part of Windows. I'd give it at least 3 to 5 GB unless I was suffering with a very small drive. Even then, I'd try to find another way to save space.

i have absolutely no use for restore at all, my system is stable and very minimalist. i backup once a week and take a system image after every major install/upgrade so its just wasted space that windows uses to slow down my PC

cheers for the input people and sorry to the O/P for bit of a thread hi-jack but i spose any info on topic is useful!

 

[whs]

see it here, its allocated but not actually in use, is that right?

That is OK. If you disabled restore, it will not use it. It is just keeping the setting in case you enable restore again.

 

[1994F7PT]

cool, cheers repped

 

[Kumaranil1918]

Wat shall i do now.. Pls suggestor help me...

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Wat shall i do now.. Pls suggestor help me...

Comply with post number 2.