I installed Windows 7 Pro using an update package from Windows Vista Home.
My issue is this. If I right click my C: (Primary Partition) it says I have over 70 gigs of space used. If I go into the root of C: and \\"Select All\\" with Hidden and System files showing, I am just over 40 Gigs. Which is real and why are they showing differently?
I have run a Disk Clean-up, cleared about 500 MB.... and a Defrag, neither really impacted the size. The system is formatted using NTFS.
Any suggestions would be great as to what my problem is.
Thanks!
windows reserves space for swop file, system restore and temp files although 30gig is a big difference
what size is your windows.old folder ?
a great tool I use for accurate drive use is WinDirStat
Type the following command to view your system restore :
vssadmin list shadowstorage
This will list your System Restore space
You will see the following 3 important data
Used Shadow Copy Storage Space
Allocated Shadow Copy Storage Space
Maximum Shadow Copy Storage Space
This is where I saw the 30 GB used and Max was 33 GB.
The following command will let you chage that storage space
vssadmin resize shadowstorage /for=c: /on=c: /maxsize=350mb
You should be able to enter anything over 300MB but I was unable to make that work so I chose 350MB.
Now I have 210GB free of 222GB. I know odd number but Dell has some partitioned to their restore, which I may get rid of at some point.
Thanks Ickymay for the great app!
Found the answer to my own question. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, now to reinstall appications... fun....
Anyway, here it is.
Used WinDirStat to locate "lost" space. Shows as "Unknown". Did some searching online and found these steps to resolve.
Open your Command Prompt AS ADMINISTRATOR (Either browes to it and right click to select run as administrator or, I think in the "run" type cmd, im sure of the cmd, and press shift+enter, I could be wrong...).
Type the following command to view your system restore :
vssadmin list shadowstorage
This will list your System Restore space
You will see the following 3 important data
Used Shadow Copy Storage Space
Allocated Shadow Copy Storage Space
Maximum Shadow Copy Storage Space
This is where I saw the 30 GB used and Max was 33 GB.
The following command will let you chage that storage space
vssadmin resize shadowstorage /for=c: /on=c: /maxsize=350mb
You should be able to enter anything over 300MB but I was unable to make that work so I chose 350MB.
Now I have 210GB free of 222GB. I know odd number but Dell has some partitioned to their restore, which I may get rid of at some point.
Thanks Ickymay for the great app!