System Restore

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I have an 80 GB hard drive. I had about 20GB used on my hard drive when I
did a number of system restores. After doing the system restores, I have
less that 9 GB of free hard drive space. How can I reclaim the used hard
drive space that the system restores seem to be occupying?
 
I have an 80 GB hard drive. I had about 20GB used on my hard drive when I
did a number of system restores. After doing the system restores, I have
less that 9 GB of free hard drive space. How can I reclaim the used hard
drive space that the system restores seem to be occupying?
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You say you did a "number of system restores"? Do you mean you restored
multiple times, or that you created a number of Restore Points?

Assuming the latter, if you haven't changed the default allocation, it takes
15% of your hard drive, which is too much for almost everyone. Reduce it to
around 1-2GB.
 
What do you mean you did a number of system restores? What did you do?
Afterward did you do a disk clean and defrag
 
I went to a restore point and did a system restore. I did that a number of
times using the same and different restore points. I want to get rid of all
the unnecessary files that were generated as a result.
 
jms said:
I went to a restore point and did a system restore. I did that a number of
times using the same and different restore points. I want to get rid of all
the unnecessary files that were generated as a result.
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Simply using System Restore shouldn't generate "extra files" *at all*.
It merely overwrites system files with known good copies in storage.
The net change to space on your disk should be nil. Now, if you mean,
"how do I get rid of older, too numerous, system restore backups",there
is a way to do that, yes. But the way you describe the problem, it
doesn't sound like a System Restore problem at all.

Tony
 
Well, perhaps there shouldn't be extra files, but after I did several
restores, I lost over 50GB hard drive space. I defraged and did a file
cleanup, to no avail.
 
I went to a restore point and then did a system restore. I repeated this a
number of times for the same and other restore points. After I did that, I
lost over 50GB of hard drive space.

Yes, I defragged and did a disk clean, to no avail.
 
I went to a restore point and then did a system restore. I repeated this a
number of times for the same and other restore points. After I did that, I
lost over 50GB of hard drive space.

Yes, I defragged and did a disk clean, to no avail.
 
jms said:
Well, perhaps there shouldn't be extra files, but after I did several
restores, I lost over 50GB hard drive space. I defraged and did a file
cleanup, to no avail.
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Well, I honestly don't know what your problem is, but it *sounds*
very much like a virus or malware situation - there are some that create
"junk" files on your hard drive. But that's merely a guess/possibility.

Tony
 
I restored multiple times.

Ken Blake said:
You say you did a "number of system restores"? Do you mean you restored
multiple times, or that you created a number of Restore Points?

Assuming the latter, if you haven't changed the default allocation, it takes
15% of your hard drive, which is too much for almost everyone. Reduce it to
around 1-2GB.
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jms said:
I went to a restore point and then did a system restore. I repeated this a
number of times for the same and other restore points. After I did that, I
lost over 50GB of hard drive space.

Yes, I defragged and did a disk clean, to no avail.
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System Restore data bases (*.RDB) can be cleaned up, except the last one. Go
to start/run, type: cleanmgr. When cleaning is done, you will see the option
on the second tab. Don't sue me!

Ka2H
 
There is a little program that will look at a drive or partition and then
show you what files are taking up how much space. It a graphic, so you can
just look at it and see the big files.

The program is SequoiaView, and it is freeware.

Good luck, Dan
 
Thanks for the tip. I used the program to find a hidden system folder that
contained over 50 GB of data. I searched out the file in Google. The end
result was that I cleared the system restore files from disk cleanup and I'm
back to where I was.

Your tip did it for me!
 
Hi JMS,

As Ken suggested, reduce the amount of disk space used to hold restore points.

How to Adjust the amount of disk space System Restore uses to hold restore
points:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/diskspace.html

Set System Restore to only monitor only the partition Windows is installed on.
How to disable a monitored drive:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/drivedisable.html

Create a new a new restore point.
How to create a manual restore point in System Restore:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/createrp.html

Use Disk Cleanup with the System Restore option. This will remove all but
the newest restore point.
How to using Disk Clean-up to remove restore points:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/diskclean.html

Now check for the amount of free disk space.

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org
 
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