I had to use the System Recovery on my computer and now almost all of the space is gone. What can I do to get the space back?
System Recovery Left almost no storage space!
- Thread starter sylviafrb
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Click on the Start Pearl and navigate your menus to "System Tools" From there, click on Disk Clean Up and select your main drive where Windows Vista is stored. It'll take a few minutes for the program to calculate what needs to be cleaned off. Once it is done, go to the last tab and under "System Restore and Shadow Copies" tell it to delete all but the most recent restore point. That should free up a lot of space.
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Velocity Micro, HP Pavillion
- CPU
- Intel 2 Quad Core Q9400, AMD Athlon 64 x2 4400+
- Memory
- 8 GBs DDR3, 4 GB DDR2 PC5300 (667 MHZ)
- Graphics Card(s)
- nVIDIA GTS 250 (over clocked), nVIDIA 6150SE n430
- Monitor(s) Displays
- HP w1907
- PSU
- 440 Watts
- Case
- Velocity Micro
- Cooling
- Fan
- Keyboard
- Logitech G15
- Mouse
- Trackman Marble ++
- Internet Speed
- 2 mbps
Thank you for your reply. I went into the System Tools menu and attempted the disk cleanup on the recovery drive C: . I cleaned up everything but all of my space is still used up.
(Here is my detailed question, as I was advised to re-write it.)
I previously had a problem on my Gateway Laptop Computer - Intel Core2 Duo Centrino, that came pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium, which I could not fix. I had to do a System Recovery using the on-screen program and did not back up any of my files, in attempt to clear out everything that I had on the computer. After I completed this process, I set up my desktop and internet, and started over. When reviewing my Hard Disk Drives on my "Computer" menu, I notice that my
C: Drive is almost all the way full (8.55 GB free of 139 GB).
Although I downloaded a few programs and set up my Internet Security, I am sure I did not install anything large enough to use up almost all of the computers storage space for programs and files. By doing the System Recovery I thought that it would erase everything so that my computer would be back to it's factory condition. Could my previous files still be in the computer? After searching this forum, I did not find any information on the specific question that convinsed me of the soultion, or a course of action. Can anyone help me?
(Here is my detailed question, as I was advised to re-write it.)
I previously had a problem on my Gateway Laptop Computer - Intel Core2 Duo Centrino, that came pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium, which I could not fix. I had to do a System Recovery using the on-screen program and did not back up any of my files, in attempt to clear out everything that I had on the computer. After I completed this process, I set up my desktop and internet, and started over. When reviewing my Hard Disk Drives on my "Computer" menu, I notice that my
C: Drive is almost all the way full (8.55 GB free of 139 GB).
Although I downloaded a few programs and set up my Internet Security, I am sure I did not install anything large enough to use up almost all of the computers storage space for programs and files. By doing the System Recovery I thought that it would erase everything so that my computer would be back to it's factory condition. Could my previous files still be in the computer? After searching this forum, I did not find any information on the specific question that convinsed me of the soultion, or a course of action. Can anyone help me?
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