resize system restore space?

edited August 2011 in General Chat
I just did a cmd prompt because my system c: gb's were disappearing every day now I get them all back and today it went up 2 extra gbs now, is this normal?

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  • edited July 2011
    Nooooot at all.
  • edited July 2011
    DAISHI wrote: »
    Nooooot at all.
    really? I did a disk clean up and then it went up from 871 to 872?
  • edited July 2011
    cmd prompt isn't a disk cleanup. Disk cleanup just erases a bunch of trivial stuff you don't use often.
  • edited July 2011
    DAISHI wrote: »
    cmd prompt isn't a disk cleanup. Disk cleanup just erases a bunch of trivial stuff you don't use often.
    oh no no, I did a disk cleanup after the cmd prompt and noticed that the gbs went up two more? is it normal..that the number changes?
  • edited July 2011
    Yes, because Disk Cleanup deletes stuff on your hard drive.
  • edited August 2011
    vssadmin resize shadowstorage /for=c: /on=c: /maxsize=5GB and my max space is 5gb...is this ok?
  • edited August 2011
    Don't reduce your shadowstorage. You're fine.
  • edited August 2011
    DAISHI wrote: »
    Don't reduce your shadowstorage. You're fine.
    keep it at the max setting? I did it right?
  • edited August 2011
    Yeah at 5 you're fine.
  • edited August 2011
    DAISHI wrote: »
    Yeah at 5 you're fine.
    Thank you so very much, because of you I can sleep tonight, thank you very much, I owe you.
  • edited August 2011
    Ehh lol ok. You know you'll never use your shadowspace.
  • edited August 2011
    DAISHI wrote: »
    Erm ok. You know you'll never use your shadowspace.
    huh but the other day my Gigabytes were 1 by 1 missing until I did this?
  • edited August 2011
    All it does is handle your backup data.
  • edited August 2011
    DAISHI wrote: »
    All it does is handle your backup data.
    oh ok i only thought because my gigabytes stayed at bay when i completed the command.
  • edited August 2011
    really? I did a disk clean up and then it went up from 871 to 872?

    Am I missing something here? Having 871 GB is still a lot of free space. I'm not sure what you're worried about.
  • edited August 2011
    I only have 60gb left on my 500gb harddrive! XD

    (Need to move some stuff to my external 1.5tb)
  • edited August 2011
    Yeah I'm running and external 2, another external 1 and a 500 G for music.

    And yeah Chyron, that was also my unspoken response XD
  • edited August 2011
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    Am I missing something here? Having 871 GB is still a lot of free space. I'm not sure what you're worried about.
    oh im sorry, I had a problem that my Gbs were disappearing everyday for no reason..I don't know if it was from me adding to manual restore points or what so I did a cmd to put the max size Shadow page, my full capacity HD is 916GB
  • edited August 2011
    The difference between restore points is minimal, so I wouldn't worry about it too much from that end. It is a bit curious but you may want to track down differences in folder size on a day to day period. Usually space is getting eaten up your Program Files or your Documents, and you can track down the specific space usage from there.
  • edited August 2011
    oh im sorry, I had a problem that my Gbs were disappearing everyday for no reason..I don't know if it was from me adding to manual restore points or what so I did a cmd to put the max size Shadow page, my full capacity HD is 916GB

    Do you mean that your HDD space is constantly depleting despite the lack of installing any software, and that 871GB is the lowest amount thus far where once you had much more? Or are you saying that your HDD in "My Computer" said 872GB at one time, and 871 shortly thereafter and you're not sure why?

    I must tell you that if you are only looking at the value given in "My Computer," there is most certainly rounding involved, and the amount of difference made quite possibly is much less than a full gigabyte.

    Secondly, your Virtual Memory pagefile is probably set to allow Windows to dynamically adjust it (and it should be set that way, imo) so I would consider that as a factor in your amount of available data storage. I wouldn't worry about it, though.

    And thirdly, what you're basically saying is that you have a terabyte hdd (the amount of available space is actually less than 1TB because of binary wherein 1 trillion bytes does not actually equal 1TB) and that you have used up only of 45GB of it. Think about this: 916-871=45GB. Fourty-five gigabites are being used out of an available nine hundred sixteen. I have 465GB of total space, have been filling it up with games and such yet still have 112GB free at present, and I'm not worried about it yet.

    Even if you had twenty times the amount of data stored that you currently have (45 x 20=900), you still would have space left. You still have a very long way to go indeed before I would even consider worrying about this at all.
  • edited August 2011
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    Do you mean that your HDD space is constantly depleting despite the lack of installing any software, and that 871GB is the lowest amount thus far where once you had much more? Or are you saying that your HDD in "My Computer" said 872GB at one time, and 871 shortly thereafter and you're not sure why?

    I must tell you that if you are only looking at the value given in "My Computer," there is most certainly rounding involved, and the amount of difference made quite possibly is much less than a full gigabyte.

    Secondly, your Virtual Memory pagefile is probably set to allow Windows to dynamically adjust it (and it should be set that way, imo) so I would consider that as a factor in your amount of available data storage. I wouldn't worry about it, though.

    And thirdly, what you're basically saying is that you have a terabyte hdd (the amount of available space is actually less than 1TB because of binary wherein 1 trillion bytes does not actually equal 1TB) and that you have used up only of 45GB of it. Think about this: 916-871=45GB. Fourty-five gigabites are being used out of an available nine hundred sixteen. I have 465GB of total space, have been filling it up with games and such yet still have 112GB free at present, and I'm not worried about it yet.

    Even if you had twenty times the amount of data stored that you currently have (45 x 20=900), you still would have space left. You still have a very long way to go indeed before I would even consider worrying about this at all.
    Yes that's definitely it! now I found out it's the registry..there are errors, so now I need to find a way to safely fix it the only discs I hare are the ones my PC made me burn the day I bought it, 14 discs.. :/
  • edited August 2011
    How do you know you have registry errors? What program did you use to determine that? And what makes you think that minor registry errors are causing your displayed free space in My Computer to change?

    In any case, you don't need to run a system restore to repair minor registry errors anyway. To do so would be overkill. Certainly if you had serious problems then you should consider that, but the issue you're having is far from serious, if even related to registry errors at all.

    If you're really worried about it, you can run chkdsk c: /f from a command prompt, and say yes when it asks to perform it at next startup. There are freeware registry cleaners you can use, but I'm not sure to recommend any at this point since I'm not even sure why you think your registry has problems in the first place.
  • edited August 2011
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    How do you know you have registry errors? What program did you use to determine that? And what makes you think that minor registry errors are causing your displayed free space in My Computer to change?

    In any case, you don't need to run a system restore to repair minor registry errors anyway. To do so would be overkill. Certainly if you had serious problems then you should consider that, but the issue you're having is far from serious.

    If you're really worried about it, you can run chkdsk c: /f from a command prompt, and say yes when it asks to perform it at next startup.
    thank youy IU did a sfc/scannow in cmd.
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