Vista - does this make sense?

btw I am "plzhelp"

I previously posted that my disk space was dropping every few house by a couple GB. no way i downloaded that much. well I use jdiskreport to open a tree of all my usage, now i added up all of the used space by me and its about 26.7 or so. Looking at my free space, its missing like 60 Gb. how is it im only using 26.7 GB, but missing 60?



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Is it possible for viruses/spyware to have access to my HDD and store things on it without me knowing (dumb question but seems like the only logical explanation to me)

thank you for the help.

neurosynthetic,

I wrote you a big post explaining why this happens. What part did you not understand of it? These are system restore points and shadow copies that is taking up the extra space. It won't show you this unless you specifically go to these files. If you use Disk Cleanup by following the instructions 1-7, 13-15 in Disk Cleanup tutorial you will get your space back.

Reread this tutorial if you didn't understand.

System Restore - disk space

Disk Cleanup

My earlier post.

free disk space slowly decreasing



This is not from viruses. This is the Restore Feature of Vista.

hmm, but isnt the green space in jdiskreport the restore?, thats only like 3GB which is where i am confused, + doesnt it only use about 15-30% of your HDD for restoring. and I have defragmented my computer + used Ccleaner.

No, if your hard drive is 230 gigabytes... then System Restore using possibly up to 30%, it could take away 70 gigabytes from usable space. .30 x 230= 69.

230 - 69 = 161 gigabytes

If recovering this space is important to you, for you to be able to use it, why haven't you done the steps in Disk Cleanup?? Defragging and using ccleaner isn't going to give you back this space, only using Disk Cleanup in the tutorial. After you use Disk Cleanup, the space will slowly start being used up again, which you would then use Disk Cleanup again.


You have 175 gigabytes free already, why do you need more space?

ok Airbot, I am resizing the restore points for my system restore. in the instructions it says =3gb, can I do =10gb? + i now understand what it is you were saying earlier, turns out my use shadow restorage space was 30gb, which completely explains where the other 30gbs went. THANK YOU VERY MUCH AIRBOT U OWN!

not that I need the space, but more of a "where the hell did it go?"

+ I will do the steps. Thanks again!

Yes, I know, it can be very confusing if you don't know about SR and Shadow Copies. The space that it quickly takes up.

But, I would not really recommend that you resize the space used by SR and SC, rather just use Disk Cleanup evey so often to get the space back. You know you will be able to get it back at any time you want to, so it's better not to modify SR, just use DC.

Ok, well i am 31Gb/34GB SR space, and well, now that i know once it gets to 34GB it wont take up any more space from there I am not half as worried. I was thinking it would take up all my space until it was gone! what a scare. Thanks again Airbot, you couldn't of been any more help.

Yes, you are welcome. No need to worry about it.