I don't know if "Unbounded" is something you could specify, or just the system's response to a malformed or corrupt setup. But, if you wanted to cripple your future ex's Vista computer, "unbounded" would be a good way to do it. Here is my problem related to the disk space. Please read this post. Good information. Did you end up rebuilding your computer using HP Recovery Manager and rebuild Vista to fix your problem?
I didn't. I'm worried about whether registry of all other softwares will be influenced or not or they will be wiped out. Give me an advice! If you rebuild, everything will be wiped out. Considering all the problems you've been having, I would do it and start over. Thanks but I won't rebuild it.
It's so hard to start reinstalling heap of softs. I'll continue to find what's happening. I've been wondering why my Hard Drive keeps decreasing every move that I make on my laptop. I don't save much on my hdd. And it confuses me why it decreases so much in a day.
I found out about this strategy of freeing some space on your hard drive. I followed the steps and retrieved an amount of 18GB of my hard drive. It went from 81GB to 99GB. I don't really know much about these computer stuff. But I was also wondering what MaxSize was. Because I set mine to 1GB. I don't know if that's enough but can anyone help me on this?
Thank you! HI this thread was extremely useful for me. It helped me clear up 13GB of free space. I was surprised to see some people clearing upto 30GB by this!!! However…after performing the disk cleanup…i still see that 7 GB is still occupied by something. Good that you came across this topic to see how you were loosing hard disk space. MaxSize is the maximum amount of disk space you want System Restore to use.
I don't know what disk size you have, but you indicated 99GB. So with a hard drive of that amount, you may to bump it up a little more, the amount of space System Restore can take up. I see. So System restore is basically the space you want for your computer to restore documents and other things? My laptop contains GB of hdd. Is there an amount of space you can advice me to increase my System Restore?
Dhanur You may need to do a little digging and see where the disk space is being used. Which is 8. So I can put my MaxSize Restore to 8. Thank you once again! You've been a great help! If you have files that you do not want to lose during a System or Hard Drive crash, you should always back them up on an external drive. I just bought this pc and upgraded to Windows Vista Ultimate after two days of purchase.
It was eating up 30 gigs already!! I just did the run command like you said and it worked!! I freed up to 30 gigs…before my HD was only of now it's of !
I really needed to find this site. Turns out, my shadow copy limit was unbounded that's scary. I had been wondering where my hard drive was going. I too am very appreciative of this post. I was convinced I had a virus since space on a gb hard drive was fast diminishing. So fast infact that I began deleting items to keep up.
It was only when I started to delete files in system restore that the penny dropped. I too, with your help, discovered that the max storage was set at 'unbounded'. Saved my life. Saved my marriage. Saved my sanity. This is a great post. I've recovered over 50G of space. I have a problem however. See below:. Microsoft Windows [Version 6. All rights reserved. The system cannot find the file specified.
The OS is associating exactly the same size and number of files to the "my documents" directory as to the "Documents" folder. I have a similiar problem with a "local settings" directory that exists, has no files in it, cannot be deleted, but diruse returns it using 9GB. Your observation about Vista associating "My Documents" folder to the "Documents" folder is correct and the reason why is because My Documents is a junction point.
A Junction Point is a physical location on a local hard disk that points to another location on that disk think of it as a shortcut. When these pre-Vista apps reference the My Documents folder in Vista, it will be re-directed to the Documents folder. With out the junction points in place, the application will fail to run.
Why did Microsoft decide to get rid of the old folder names, such as My Documents and others? Who knows other than why did they do it in the first place and now decide it was a bad idea. Now that you know why, it would be a bad idea to delete a junction point AND the real folder it points to. Instead, run the command, find the REAL folder location and clean out anything under it.
What the? The analysis tools show folders RRbackups, Documents and Settings, and System Volume Information all without file sizes or space usage info.
How can I see how big these folders are or where else something may be gorging on 35GB's of my data…? Your fix worked perfectly. I've decrease the max size for the system restore and ran disk cleanup, yet I did not recover any additional space. Any recommendations on what I need to do next? Hey, maybe anyone here can help me — I have this same problem as everyone, with missing disk space. Anyone has any other idea for where could the disk space hide?
By the way, I have a lenovo thinkpad. Thought this might be related as thinkpad also has some sort of system restore. OK I have indeed found out that the tinkpads have a similar, additional feature that takes up much more space, and found that it takes up about 55GB of my disk space. However, just like Vista's system restore, it is too not so easy to manipulate.
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Here we show you four different ways in which you can change the maximum amount of drive space System Restore can utilize to create restore points. All methods work on Windows Vista, 7, 8 and Although there is a way to set the system restore disk space within Windows itself apart from Vista , the option is slightly hidden away. A very simple solution is to use a small third party tool that can easily do it for you with a couple of clicks.
We have created a portable utility that can do just that, called System Restore Space Editor. It works on Windows Vista, 7, 8 and Using the tool is very simple, it will tell you the maximum space allocated for System Restore on the system C drive and how much of that space is currently in use.
Just move the slider to adjust the amount of space in Gigabytes and press the Set button. The max usage space value will flash to reflect the new size.
There is also a Delete button that will remove the oldest restore point or all restore points to free up some space before reducing the allocated space. The System Restore Space Editor tool requires administrator privileges to run, make sure to use the correct bit or bit version found in the Zip file. The most obvious and the official way to change the disk space used by System Restore is through Windows itself.
Strangely, the option to change the maximum available space was present in Windows XP, then was removed in Vista, then put back again from Windows 7 onwards. Make sure drive C is selected in the list of drives and press Configure. Note: There is a counter shown for the amount of space currently in use by System Restore.
If you set the new maximum amount lower than this value, it will result in restore points being deleted to fit into the reduced size, starting with the oldest.
This method is a little more advanced and allows you to change the space value from the command line. You can use this method in Command Prompt, Powershell, custom scripts or even your own programs.
If you have System Restore enabled on more than one drive, they will all show here although the restore for C will be the most important. You are also shown how much of that space is currently in use.
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