Vista - Losing GB space

I started with 222 GB space on Vista Home Premmium , I deleted some programs
, cleaned the pc and registry and ended up losing space .. now I'm at 181 GB .
I know I haven't used over 20 GB !
What's the remedy ?
Thanks for any help .
--
Ray

Possibly the pagefile consuming the space.

"Ray" <Ray@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I started with 222 GB space on Vista Home Premmium , I deleted some
>programs
> , cleaned the pc and registry and ended up losing space .. now I'm at 181
> GB .
> I know I haven't used over 20 GB !
> What's the remedy ?
> Thanks for any help .
> --
> Ray

Hi Ray, I have found treesize to be a help locating disk space used..

http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml


"Mark (MCP)" <nipperspot-at-gmail-dot-com> wrote in message
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> Possibly the pagefile consuming the space.
>
> "Ray" <Ray@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E43F433D-FCE2-4498-A846-942487C961F3@microsoft.com...
>>I started with 222 GB space on Vista Home Premmium , I deleted some
>>programs
>> , cleaned the pc and registry and ended up losing space .. now I'm at 181
>> GB .
>> I know I haven't used over 20 GB !
>> What's the remedy ?
>> Thanks for any help .
>> --
>> Ray
>

What are you talking about? Space? Do you mean free space, total size or
outer?

"Ray" <Ray@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I started with 222 GB space on Vista Home Premmium , I deleted some
>programs
> , cleaned the pc and registry and ended up losing space .. now I'm at 181
> GB .
> I know I haven't used over 20 GB !
> What's the remedy ?
> Thanks for any help .
> --
> Ray

"Mark (MCP)" <nipperspot-at-gmail-dot-com> wrote in message
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> Possibly the pagefile consuming the space.
>


No, it's System Restore.

ss.

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:08:13 -0800, Ray
<Ray@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I started with 222 GB space on Vista Home Premmium , I deleted some programs
>, cleaned the pc and registry and ended up losing space .. now I'm at 181 GB .
>I know I haven't used over 20 GB !
>What's the remedy ?
>Thanks for any help .

Have you emptied your Recycle bin? You don't recover space "deleted"
files took up until you do.

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:08:13 -0800, Ray wrote:

> I started with 222 GB space on Vista Home Premmium , I deleted some programs
> , cleaned the pc and registry and ended up losing space .. now I'm at 181 GB .
> I know I haven't used over 20 GB !
> What's the remedy ?
> Thanks for any help .

Linux?

The space is almost certainly taken up by the volume shadow copy service
(shadow copies/system restore points). By default, it can take up 15% of
your drive ...in your case, ~ 33 GB.

A simple command -- vssadmin -- is available to show and modify the amount
of space the service uses. Just type vssadmin in the search box at the
bottom of the start menu and run the command as an administrator.

Google <vista vssadmin> and you'll find several folks have posted on this
command. Here's the first useful one:

http://vistasupport.mvps.org/decreas...em_restore.htm

Unless it's bothering you, you should probably just leave it alone for now
and reset the defaults if you ever need the space. All those extra restore
points can come in handy if something goes terribly wrong.

Hope this helps.

Thanks AJA .. that's the problem ! Will leave alone for meantime .
Appreciate the help ..
--
Ray


"aja" wrote:

> The space is almost certainly taken up by the volume shadow copy service
> (shadow copies/system restore points). By default, it can take up 15% of
> your drive ...in your case, ~ 33 GB.
>
> A simple command -- vssadmin -- is available to show and modify the amount
> of space the service uses. Just type vssadmin in the search box at the
> bottom of the start menu and run the command as an administrator.
>
> Google <vista vssadmin> and you'll find several folks have posted on this
> command. Here's the first useful one:
>
> http://vistasupport.mvps.org/decreas...em_restore.htm
>
> Unless it's bothering you, you should probably just leave it alone for now
> and reset the defaults if you ever need the space. All those extra restore
> points can come in handy if something goes terribly wrong.
>
> Hope this helps.
>

I have experienced a somewhat similar problem.

Recently I bought an IBM Think Pad R60 IntelCore 2 Duo 2GHz T7200, 80 GB HD
which came with VISTA Home Premium.

For the last few weeks I was getting a pop-up each time I switch on my
notebook which said (as I recall) " Schedule System Backup was not
performed as the Computer was turned off, Do you want to backup?" (I cannot
exactly remember the message). So what I did was I clicked "yes" and left the
notebook on for a few hours while I was away.

After I came back I realised that the remaining Hard Disk Space had been
reduced from 35 GB to around 16 GB. I was surprised to see this. Has VISTA
saved a full copy of my Hard Disk within my C: drive?

After reading some of the Posts I changed the settings via "vssadmin". This
has increased the disk space to 21 GB, but still short of what I had before
(35GB).

After reading another post I installed "Treesize Free" to analyse the Hard
Disk and found that Windows+Programme Files+Data File only add up to 22 GB.
("Treesize Free" did not read 3 folders namely the MSOCache, RRbackups and
System Volume Information. The hard disk space excluding the portion
allocated by IBM for VISTA is 70 GB. I am now wondering what has happened to
my hard disk space? Cannot account for GB 70 - 22GB - 21 GB = 27 GB (This
include the folders that were not read by "Treesize Free").

Can anyone please help.

Regards,

Pujitha



"aja" wrote:

> The space is almost certainly taken up by the volume shadow copy service
> (shadow copies/system restore points). By default, it can take up 15% of
> your drive ...in your case, ~ 33 GB.
>
> A simple command -- vssadmin -- is available to show and modify the amount
> of space the service uses. Just type vssadmin in the search box at the
> bottom of the start menu and run the command as an administrator.
>
> Google <vista vssadmin> and you'll find several folks have posted on this
> command. Here's the first useful one:
>
> http://vistasupport.mvps.org/decreas...em_restore.htm
>
> Unless it's bothering you, you should probably just leave it alone for now
> and reset the defaults if you ever need the space. All those extra restore
> points can come in handy if something goes terribly wrong.
>
> Hope this helps.
>