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Dave21
05-20-2008, 12:49 AM
I have a seagate 7200.11 500 gb HDD and it recognizes ~465 gb.

Now it says I've used 100 gb of that 465. I've checked my installed programs and viewed the properties in my drive c: and it's less than ~50gb. So where did the other 50 gb go? I run ccleaner already so its definitely not a problem with temp files. Any clue?

Is there a harddrive diagnostics I could run or something?
glc
05-20-2008, 01:09 AM
System restore.
Dave21
05-20-2008, 01:18 AM
System restore.

Thanks glc, i knew I was overlooking something. I just read it may take up to 15% of the hdd space.

Thanks again!
Cricket
05-20-2008, 11:22 AM
I set System Restore Disk Space Usage to 5% (about 1GB on my 80GB HDD) and use the Disk Cleanup System Restore clean up option about once a month.

:) Cricket
HAL9000
05-20-2008, 11:27 AM
I experiment with the restore percentage until it gives me two previous days of restores available. I think right now I have mine set to 3%.
Dave21
05-20-2008, 09:03 PM
I've tried searching around vista and can't find the menu to lower the restore percentage?

Does anyone know where that is in vista? Thanks!
shadowpr
05-20-2008, 11:00 PM
I don't believe vista has that option. I think it's either on, or off if I remember correctly.
Dave21
05-21-2008, 12:43 AM
I don't believe vista has that option. I think it's either on, or off if I remember correctly.That takes up a lot of space then. Wow. It already uses up 50+gb. And its increasing.
shadowpr
05-21-2008, 09:29 AM
I just turned my system restore off.

In the event of an emergency, I'll just do a reinstall. Have all my personal stuff on a different drive anyway.
Dave21
05-26-2008, 05:23 PM
I just turned my system restore off.

In the event of an emergency, I'll just do a reinstall. Have all my personal stuff on a different drive anyway.

I found the solution:
http://www.vista4beginners.com/System-Restore-Space-Used

In 2 weeks, system restore used 70 gb. I allocated 2 gb of space which seems more reasonable now. :)
shadowpr
06-04-2008, 10:07 PM
Nice link.
Dave21
06-04-2008, 10:58 PM
Nice link.
I thought so too but I think I set my limit too low. My computer crashed a few days ago and could not recover to an earlier date. I should probably try again but this time allocate more space, maybe 20 gb or so in order to have several restore points.
shadowpr
06-04-2008, 11:03 PM
Keep us posted if as to what you find is the optimal amount of space to set it as. Just in case I decide to ever use system restore again.

:)
glc
06-05-2008, 12:27 PM
Hard drives are so cheap these days you might as well just leave it at defaults for maximum safety.
Dave21
06-05-2008, 12:55 PM
Hard drives are so cheap these days you might as well just leave it at defaults for maximum safety.

That is a good point. I don't even think I'll use up that much space on my harddrive so I think I'll just leave the default settings. The most it'll take up is 75 gb. It'll save a lot of hassle in the future if something does happen.