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    Hard Disk help

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Jukeboxmusicman, Jul 28, 2007.

  1. Jukeboxmusicman

    Jukeboxmusicman Notebook Guru

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    So i have basically 141 gigs but some of it is used because of the standard. I now have around 113 gigs. (by the way i recently bought it)
    Around the third day my memory dropped by 5 gigs and Im not sure why.
    Is it settings? Will my memory keep dropping?

    Please help, Thank You
     
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    deputy963 Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi Juke, you don't give a lot on info, but I think what you're saying is this:

    I had 113 GB of free drive space and 3 days later I've lost another 5GB. If that's the case and it's a new computer or drive then I would bet you're loss is Windows backing up parts of your system with the System Restore function.

    Windows does this in the background and can use up to 15% of your hard drive space. If you had 141GB available it could use up to a total of 21GB.
     
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    thanks a lot, so it will slowly eat it up until the limit is full?
     
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    Up to 15% of your total, yes.

    You can limit the size by using vssadmin from an elevated command prompt.

    Click start>type cmd>Right click on cmd.exe>select Run as Administrator
    In the box that opens type: vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=C: /for=C: /maxsize=10GB

    The will limit System Restore and the shadow copy service to 10GB of your drive. I wouldn't go much below 10GB.
     
    deputy963, Jul 29, 2007
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