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    Hard Drive/Vista problem

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by cobainey, Mar 28, 2008.

  1. cobainey

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    I realised, this evening, to my horror, that I only had 5GBs of HDD space left, and have begun to clean the drive, 160gb one.

    However, I noticed numerous things, I have vista home premium, and my c:/windows folder is in excess of 12gbs, is that normal? I have done disk cleanup, to no avail.

    Also, my C; Drive says I am using 70GB's, yet all of my folders inside of it total a mere 45GBs, I have made hidden folders/files viewable, so what gives?
    Should i restart the damn thing?

    Many thanks,

    Cobainee
     
    cobainey, Mar 28, 2008
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  2. Sir Travis D

    Sir Travis D Notebook Deity

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    turn shadow copy off
     
    Sir Travis D, Mar 28, 2008
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  3. cobainey

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    Shadow copy?
     
    cobainey, Mar 28, 2008
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    Well, first open a command prompt as admin and run this command to see how much space shadow copy is using up:

    vssadmin list shadowstorage

    You could shrink it ("vssadmin" to see command options) instead of turning it off completely if you want to keep the functionality.
     
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  5. cobainey

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    How much would it free up?
     
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  6. cobainey

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    Sorry, didnt see your post beforehand man.
    I was under the impression I was admin, being the primary user, and such, yet the command prompt says i need elevated user priveleges. Must I run command prompt in amdin mode, or somehthng?
    Thanks

    Cobainee
     
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  7. cobainey

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    Ahh, 24GB's
    Will that shrink automatically, as i fill up the hard drive?

    Thanks
     
    cobainey, Mar 28, 2008
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    I'm not sure because I switched my account type to a standard user... so I forget what the rule is when you're admin... but if it doesn't prompt to open the command prompt then it'll prompt for every command that requires escalated priviliges. (Even with an admin account you run in a lower-privilege mode most of the time if UAC is on.)
     
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  9. cobainey

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    Yeah, you do left click, run as admin, thanks. I do appreciate it man, posters like you make up for the dozens of trolls linking to RickRolls and Goatse's on other forums.

    Thanks
     
    cobainey, Mar 28, 2008
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