In the realm of IT, there's a lingering specter that prays on system administrators: the mysterious disappearance of disk space. This enigma was recently described by an IT professional struggling to understand "Where did my Windows Server's disk space disappear to?" They had conducted typical...
How can I recover 15 GB of C: partition ssd space that WinDirStat shows as "unknown" and I cannot access? I know this "unknown" 15 GB is real because Windows File Explorer shows there is an unexplained shortage of disk space. Its 15 GB or perhaps more.
I don't have a problem accounting for the...
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I am uncertain what the differences are between System Restore Points and Shadow Copies.
Actually I need only System Restore Points.
1.) Can I use SRP without (!) Shadow Copies?
2.) When Shadow copies always necessary: Why are SRP invented?
Why not using Shadow Copies only?
3.) Assume I...
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I was about run a defrag on C: with O&O, but since there are a lot of locked blocks, I decided to temporarily turn off hibernation and shadow copies, but I've run into a problem with the latter. Even after turning it off and deleting shadow copies in the Device Manager, O&O still reports that...
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Every time I reboot my machine I get a volsnap Event 25 error: "The shadow copies of volume C: were deleted because the shadow copy storage could not grow in time. Consider reducing the IO load on the system or choose a shadow copy storage volume that is not being...
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Hi, System restore is not working for me. I get the following message.
I have made sure shadow copies is started in services but no good.
What now thanks.
A leak Wednesday has uncovered plans for Windows 8 to imitate the behavior of Time Machine in Mac OS X. Nicknamed History Vault, it would use the Shadow Copies feature that came as early as Vista but give it a proper visual interface for restoring older files. The WinRumors shot doesn't provide...
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this happened with two hard disk drives. ill only talk about the one im using right now. i installed windows and some programs. i right clicked on the C partition where the OS is installed then properties. 97.9 space used 11.1 space available. Total size is 109 as you can see. thats right. I...
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Please help me I've looked everywhere on the internet and can't find out how to fix this. I want to shrink my vista partition which should be easy, but it says because of page files and shadow copies that shrink space may be limited, I have 15 gigs free but it only would let me shrink 500 mb...