System Restore

I restored multiple times.

"Ken Blake" wrote:

> "jms" <jms RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2D29D94B-1DB6-45BA-87E3-7765FEA319CC@microsoft.com...
>
> >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?
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> --
> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>
>
>

What do you mean you did a number of system restores? What did you do?
Afterward did you do a disk clean and defrag
"jms" <jms.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2D29D94B-1DB6-45BA-87E3-7765FEA319CC@microsoft.com...
>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 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.

"Unknown" wrote:

> What do you mean you did a number of system restores? What did you do?
> Afterward did you do a disk clean and defrag
> "jms" <jms RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2D29D94B-1DB6-45BA-87E3-7765FEA319CC@microsoft.com...
> >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 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.

"Unknown" wrote:

> What do you mean you did a number of system restores? What did you do?
> Afterward did you do a disk clean and defrag
> "jms" <jms.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2D29D94B-1DB6-45BA-87E3-7765FEA319CC@microsoft.com...
> >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 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.

"Unknown" wrote:

> What do you mean you did a number of system restores? What did you do?
> Afterward did you do a disk clean and defrag
> "jms" <jms.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2D29D94B-1DB6-45BA-87E3-7765FEA319CC@microsoft.com...
> >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?

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.

"Tony Meloche" wrote:

> jms wrote:
> > 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.
>
>
> 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
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"jms" wrote:

> 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.
>

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

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:22:01 -0700, jms
<jms.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I restored multiple times.
>
>"Ken Blake" wrote:
>
>> "jms" <jms.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:2D29D94B-1DB6-45BA-87E3-7765FEA319CC@microsoft.com...
>>
>> >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?
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
>> Please reply to the newsgroup
>>
>>
>>

Each restore would *knock out* the one that was done before , whether
you repeated one after another , or over a period of time .

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
"Ka2H" <Ka2H.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CA2B7483-B488-488A-BF73-453CC8525C21@microsoft.com...
> "jms" wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> 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
>

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!

"Daniel Schaffer" wrote:

> 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
> "Ka2H" <Ka2H DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CA2B7483-B488-488A-BF73-453CC8525C21@microsoft.com...
> > "jms" wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
> > 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
> >
>
>
>

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

jms wrote:
> 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 now done all you suggested and am a "happy camper".

Thanks for the response.

"Bert Kinney" wrote:

> 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
>
> jms wrote:
> > 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?
>

You're very welcome.

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


jms wrote:
> I have now done all you suggested and am a "happy camper".
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
> "Bert Kinney" wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> jms wrote:
>>> 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?