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    Restoring t61p HD GIVES MORE SPACE

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Brusso99, Sep 1, 2007.

  1. Brusso99

    Brusso99 Notebook Geek

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    I replaced my T61HD with the same 100gb 7200 rpm that IBM sent me when i complained about noise. I used the rescue and recovery program to make 4DVD's and i restored them on the new drive.. To my suprise I gaied many GB.. I had 40GB Free before now I show 67.4 GB free of 92.4GB

    Thats a big improvement.
     
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  2. TPA

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    I bet your old drive had a backup or 2. You may find some of your space disappearing if your new system does a backup.
     
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    You sure this wasnt just a hidden partition? no longer being used?
     
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    a 27 gig hidden partition?
     
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    I dont know...just comign up with any possibilities I can think of ;)

    One person did just post and suggest they had some sort of WAUGRADE folder or something with like 3 GB in it that may just be the vista install media or something. Perhaps the restore just doesnt restore this stuff specifically?
     
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    Actually this has been an ongoing problem on this forum. There is a program bundled with the preload that makes a backup of your entire hard drive. So if you have 20gig used on your hard drive and it makes a backup, it takes almost another 20gig to do it. You get to it by accessing your hidden partition ( I think by the blue button or under start>programs>thinkvantage>??? something like that). There will be an option to change the settings of the backup utility, and also to delete backups. The default is to make 2 backups, but you can set it to more or less. The actual backups are hidden, or else you would be making backups of your backups.
     
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    The other thing is Restore Points and Shadow Copies. On my 200GB drive, I freed up 22GB the other day by deleting all but the most current restore point . Windows Vista will use 15% of your drive for these functions unless you run some command line utilities to alter the limits (not terribly friendly like XP was).
     
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  8. Brusso99

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    i see how these backups can free used space, but i also gained total space.. FYI the new segate drives makes all those same sounds, its just amazing how annoying it can be once you tune in a certian sound.. I am going to ask them from another brand of HD alltogether if they have it..

    Segate is the only hd i have had fail on me in my lifetime, i dont trust it with all that strange noise comming from them.

    B
     
    Brusso99, Sep 1, 2007
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