Bryan

I found it !!!!

It was Lenovo's Restore and Recovery Backup.

Thanks Gerry as your post got me thinking in the right direction.
-Bryan

"Bryan" wrote:

> I disabled all System Restore and Shadow Copies and so the System Volume
> Information folder only has 20,616 bytes in the folder tree. I didn't
> include that in my previous listing because it was protected and didn't show
> up until I changed the permissions. I do thank you for your post because it
> got me to looking at the other "0" byte directories - preboot, RRBackup, and
> tvtos. Unfortunately for those directories it won't let me have access to
> change security unless I change the ownership which i'm hesitent to do for
> fear of breaking something (I have disabled all system restore).
> I am wondering though if the problem isn't RRBackup. It's very name makes
> me think it may be something Lenovo uses for their backup storage. Now that
> Vista does this there isn't any need for theirs and I think I do remember it
> running out of space so maybe it didn't clean up properly...
>
> Thank You,
> -Bryan
> "Gerry" wrote:
>
> > Bryan
> >
> > A large part will be the System Volume Information Folder -System
> > Restore and Shadow Copies -up to 15% of the drive capacity. Other
> > programmes can also hide files.
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Gerry
> > ~~~~
> > FCA
> > Stourport, England
> > Enquire, plan and execute
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > "Bryan" <Bryan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:2BE7052C-E189-4096-A1A7-D5B67E9742AE@microsoft.com...
> > > There are many posts about missing disk space in Vista.
> > > Even after completely disabling System Restore I still have almost 1/2
> > > my HD
> > > space missing. Following are the totals used for all directory trees,
> > > the
> > > grand total used, and the total chkdsk reports used. dir/a/s was used
> > > for a
> > > directories and dir/a for c:\ so the hibernation file and pagefile,
> > > etc. are
> > > included in the visible disk space used.
> > > Where are the 31+ Gigs of space and how can I get it back?
> > >
> > > 6 File(s) 4,589,640,338 bytes root
> > > 2 File(s) 258 bytes $Recycle.Bin
> > > 36 File(s) 17,374,572 bytes Boot
> > > 1239 File(s) 4,530,583,455 bytes Downloads
> > > 96 File(s) 45,240,932 bytes Drivers
> > > 4 File(s) 48,658 bytes Garmin
> > > 1 File(s) 135,680 bytes Intel
> > > 109 File(s) 304,378,382 bytes MSOCache
> > > 34078 File(s) 1,261,099,022 bytes OnOffLin
> > > 39 File(s) 12,828,308 bytes perflogs
> > > 0 File(s) 0 bytes preboot
> > > 1202 File(s) 364,731,149 bytes Program Files
> > > 13261 File(s) 2,394,878,728 bytes Program Files (x86)
> > > 710 File(s) 177,276,910 bytes ProgramData
> > > 0 File(s) 0 bytes RRbackups
> > > 23 File(s) 8,995,053 bytes SanDisk 16Meg Card
> > > 41 File(s) 10,976,913 bytes SanDisk 1Gig Card
> > > 455 File(s) 993,513,565 bytes SanDisk 2Gig Card
> > > 17 File(s) 36,560,057 bytes SWSHARE
> > > 2 File(s) 184,320 bytes SystemUpdate
> > > 65249 File(s) 2,489,944,173 bytes Thinkpad T60p
> > > 0 File(s) 0 bytes tvtos
> > > 27297 File(s) 18,684,383,139 bytes Users
> > > 53516 File(s) 11,865,053,121 bytes Windows
> > > ______________
> > > 47,787,826,733 Total visible used
> > >
> > > ChkDsk Sizes ChkDsk Output
> > > 94,763,417,600 92542400 KB total disk space.
> > > 79,193,509,888 77337412 KB in 189067 files.
> > > 70,610,944 68956 KB in 18530 indexes.
> > > 0 0 KB in bad sectors.
> > > 320,126,976 312624 KB in use by the system.
> > > 67,108,864 65536 KB occupied by the log file.
> > > 15,179,169,792 14823408 KB available on disk.
> > >
> > > 4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
> > > 23135600 total allocation units on disk.
> > > 3705852 allocation units available on disk.
> > >
> > > Missing Disk Space
> > > 79,193,509,888 (chkdsk used)
> > > - 47,787,826,733 (total visible used)
> > > ------------------
> > > 31,405,683,155 (missing disk space)
> > > So the questions again are:
> > > 1. What is taking my 31+ gig of disk space?
> > > 2. How can I get it back?
> > >
> > > Thank You,
> > > -Bryan Andrews
> > > 314-414-3235 bryan.s.a@gmail.com
> >
> >
> >