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Mythril
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 Posted: Thu, 17th Jan 2008 01:27 Post subject: Microsoft Vista & The Mystery Of The Shrinking Hard Driv |
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Are you missing some HDD space lately ?
Are you missing a lot of HDD space lately ?
Is your HDD spinning like it will never stop ?
Is Diskeeper / O&O Defrag reporting super heavy daily fragmentation on your C drive ?
Is chkdsk showing not a single problem with C drive ?
Do you now have a low space warning on your drive with no clue why ?
Have you run a disk cleanup only to watch as the 5gigs you just freed slowly disappears again until the low space warning returns ?
If so follow these simple instructions to correct this problem.
Goto:
Start, Run and type in cmd
Type: Vssadmin list shadowstorage
You can now see how much space has been allocated to ShadowStorage. Mine was going on 10 Gig !!
Here is a very simple procedure to lower the amount of disk space system restore uses.
Simply open up control panel and type this:
vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=x: /for=x: /maxsize=xGB
The (x) represents the HDD that system restore uses. and the (xGB) represents how much max space it can use. I have mine set like this:
vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=c: /for=c: /maxsize=300MB
Than type in: "vssadmin list shadowstorage" and you should see the difference, also it will give you back all your HDD storage it took from you.
I have set mine to 300MB as it's the lowest amount you can have.
You should also use the "Super" admin account in Vista as you don't have to disable UAC or anything to be able to have administrator privileges to use programs etc and be bugged by the UAC windows that keep popping up.
Hope this helps some people out !
Regards,
Mythril
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yoyoxp
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Location: Dublin
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mine was 1,5 Gig, so it wasn't that big, but 30 Gigs, that's quite a lot of space...
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Surray
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Location: Europe
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| Posted: Sat, 19th Jan 2008 14:42 Post subject: |
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what? people are actually using system restore?
I've never used it...
| Quote: | vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.
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yoyoxp
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Rinze
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| Posted: Sun, 20th Jan 2008 02:08 Post subject: |
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VSS will autodelete older shadow copies when diskspace gets low. And if you have ever accidentally deleted or overwritten a file, you won't mind the disk use.
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| Posted: Sun, 20th Jan 2008 02:16 Post subject: |
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| Surray wrote: | what? people are actually using system restore?
I've never used it...
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exactly
absolutely useless shit, some apps won't work properly after rolling back, so it's easier and faster to reformat, just keep one partition for OS only
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| Posted: Sun, 20th Jan 2008 18:38 Post subject: |
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| Mortibus wrote: | | ...just keep one partition for OS only |
Will be getting a Vista notebook soon and I'd like to format it that way. How much space should I put on the Vista partition?
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Nice find though lol
