Gerry

Glad it's sorted Bryan.


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Gerry
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Stourport, England
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"Bryan" <Bryan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1AA0CAEE-98EE-417C-BC07-A2CE23B4621E@microsoft.com...
>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
>> >
>> >
>> >