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    Vista keeps on eating my hard disk

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Stewie Griffin, Sep 5, 2007.

  1. Stewie Griffin

    Stewie Griffin Notebook Consultant

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    i have a t61p

    75 gigs of free space orginally.

    every few times i look my harddrive gets smaller and smaller

    now, its down to 66 gigs.... WTF??

    I never installed anything
     
    Stewie Griffin, Sep 5, 2007
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  2. Duran

    Duran Notebook Consultant

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    my guess is the system restore points......I disabled system restore and I got 10 GB back! :D
     
    Duran, Sep 5, 2007
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    halobox Notebook Deity

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    Turn off System Restore points...
     
    halobox, Sep 5, 2007
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    agreed.....system restore points can take up a lot of space. either disable the feature or go to disk clean up and delete all but the most recent restore point.
     
    wuzertheloser, Sep 5, 2007
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  5. shoelace_510

    shoelace_510 8700M GT inside... ^-^;

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    Also did you update anything??
     
    shoelace_510, Sep 5, 2007
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    odin243 Notebook Prophet

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    Or you could just not worry about it. If you don't need that space right this instant, why not let it be filled with the restore points?
     
    odin243, Sep 5, 2007
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    LaptopGuru Notebook Evangelist

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    vssadmin Resize ShadowStorage /For=C: /On=C: /Maxsize=3GB

    My 200GB drive was missing 22GB thanks to restore points
     
    LaptopGuru, Sep 5, 2007
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  8. Duran

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    I didn't know the restore points ate so much.....as time goes by...
     
    Duran, Sep 5, 2007
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  9. jaxx1

    jaxx1 Notebook Geek

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    I'd be curious as well as to any processes that seem to be eating up a fair amount of RAM during times when the space is decreasing.

    But I'll jump on the bandwagon and say restore data would be a great starting place (and hopefully an ending place).
     
    jaxx1, Sep 5, 2007
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  10. JabbaJabba

    JabbaJabba ThinkPad Facilitator

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    By default System Restore will utilize up to 15% of your hard drive's capacity. This can be changed though.
     
    JabbaJabba, Sep 5, 2007
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  11. 660hpv12

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    I have the same problem on my vostro 1400, I always thought it was a virus, but am good now, so it only eats upto 15% on HD space? and not more?
     
    660hpv12, Sep 12, 2007
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  12. JabbaJabba

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    Correct. 15% should be the limit before it starts cleaning out in the restore files.
     
    JabbaJabba, Sep 12, 2007
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