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HDD free space appears to be decreasing?
I own a FZ160 and my Local Disk ( C: ) has 179GB of total space. I vividly remember seeing 141GB of free space just two days ago and I have not installed any applications, but now it shows 134GB of free space. Why is this? I have uninstalled quite a few of the VAIO software in the past two days and thats about all I have done.
I know there is still so much free space but I am concerned to where 7GB just randomly went. I changed the Virtual Memory settings from the recommended 3055MB memory to about 4GB but its only on one drive, my C drive.
Where is this space going?
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Much disscusion on this do a search to get the best answer. Vista eats space when still early on to back up and I think try and customize the Vista experience for you.
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Re: HDD free space appears to be decreasing?
Much disscusion on this do a search to get the best answer. Vista eats space when still early on to back up and I think try and customize the Vista experience for you.
I dont quite understand your post. Vista eats space when still early on? Early on what? I've uninstalled every application I decide I will not use and so right now nearly every application in the list of programs is one that I use quite often.
Right now it reads 134GB of 179GB free.
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Well I just was looking at Diskeeper and in analyzing my C drive I also noticed that it recognized my recovery drive, which is 9GB. I think this answers my question of the missing HDD space. That means I've got over 140GB free space.
But now this brings me to a different question. Why doesnt Explorer show my Recovery Drive? I have seen it on my friend's Dell Inspiron 1520. Is there some way to make it visible in the Explorer window?
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Your space loss is caused by the system restore function of Vista. As far as I remember it will use up to 15% of your hard drive to frequently make images of your system after changes (i.e. windows updates, drivers, installation/uninstallation, etc).
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I value System Restore but is there a way to reduce the amount of space it will use?
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I value System Restore but is there a way to reduce the amount of space it will use?
Yes.
See this link:
http://keznews.com/2748_How_To__Redu...System_Restore
There are many other sites informing about the same thing.
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Re: HDD free space appears to be decreasing?
Yes.
See this link:
http://keznews.com/2748_How_To__Redu...System_Restore
There are many other sites informing about the same thing.
Thanks JabbaJabba.
I ran the command and it shows that I have 25.752GB of used shadow copy storage space, while 26.741GB is the allocated shadow copy storage space. 30GB is the max amount of space allowed. Thats a lot of space for shadow storage...
How much should I be allocating? In the article, the example given shows a mere 2GB.
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I just tried to set 2GB parameters for shadow storage and it tells me the value is incorrect.
Error: A required suffix is missing
"MaxSizeSpecs is to be represented in bytes", even though i supplied a correct suffix at 2GB ?
What should I try now?