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    T61 system upgrade caused my hard drive to fill up significantly

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by birdguy, Feb 29, 2008.

  1. birdguy

    birdguy Notebook Geek

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    Last night, I performed Thinkpad system software upgrade and after a long time of processing the installs, the hard drive is now filled up significantly. I had 50 GB free before (55GB used), now there is only 8 GB free. I tried to account for the extra data by adding up the folders under C:, but the numbers only add up to about 50GB used (i am supposed to have 105GB total free--120GB HDD).

    has anyone else experienced this? If not, what's the best way to figure out where all that extra data is? I still have the recovery partition, so I know that takes about 5-10 GB, but that should already be accounted for in my original 50GB used (before the software upgrade), right?

    Thanks for any help.
     
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    jaxxx Notebook Consultant

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    its probably used up by R&R....go to computer>right click C drive>click diskclean up C drive>more options> disk clean up recovery data.

    let me know if it works
     
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    ONly cleaned up a couple of GBs
     
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    whats a couple?? same thing happened to me and I got 10 gb back doing the disk clean up..

    you can try turning of system restore but only if you know you will not be restoring back to a certain piont.... you can always turn it back on to save restore pionts.

    see with system restore the more you install things or uninstall it saves a restore piont everytime...
     
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    birdguy Notebook Geek

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    I got literally 2GB back, that's mostly from the hibernation file. My System Restore has been turned off since I bought my T61, so there is no extra restore points.

    There is HUGE gap between before and after--a whole 47 GB of difference! I got 2 of those back with disk cleanup, but still doesn't explain the other 45 GB.

    Thanks for you ideas though. My last option might be backup my files and restore the thinkpad. Any other ideas?
     
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    birdguy Notebook Geek

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    jaxxx, thanks for your help.
    I found why I lost all those GBs. I mistakenly asked the Thinkpad System Upgrade to install Rescue and Recovery, and over night, the program made a backup of my HD in its hidden folder c:\RRBackups

    I uninstalled R&R and got my space back.
    Thanks!
     
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    how did you find it?
     
    jaxxx, Feb 29, 2008
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