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    Vista drive usage

    Okay, can someone explain something to me. Each day I see the amount of space used on my Windows drive slightly creeping up.

    I have windows on a 70Gb Raptor, that's it, just Vista on there and the users folders. Currently there is 27Gb used, yet when I select everything in C: (including hidden and system files) and click properties it's only showing 20Gb.

    so where the hell is the other 7Gb hiding?

    and the recycle bin is empty.

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    Are you running any form of compression on the drive?

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    That'd be low level system stuff like pagefile, hibernation file, indexing etc.. I think.
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    Quote Originally Posted by aidanjt View Post
    That'd be low level system stuff like pagefile, hibernation file, indexing etc.. I think.
    Nope, as I said, all system files and hidden files selected. Here's a breakdown:

    Program files - 1.1Gb
    Users - 5Gb
    Windows - 8Gb
    hiberfil.sys - 2Gb
    pagefile.sys - 3.5Gb

    Total: 19.6Gb

    There's a few other files and folders but they don't use up that much.

    Yet, C: shows 27.9Gb used, and each day this figure creeeps up slightly.

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    system restore?

    that lives in the super secret System Volume Information folder

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    I would guess your "System Volume Information" folder, which you don't have access to.
    Basically your "Previous Versions" of the files that are modified, backed up by Volume Shadow Copy.

    Check the properties of any file and there should be a "Previous Versions" tab, there is a brief description of the service there and a link into the Help.
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    directhex@mortos:~$ du -hs /media/WindowsXPHome/System\ Volume\ Information/*
    0 /media/WindowsXPHome/System Volume Information/MountPointManagerRemoteDatabase
    4.0K /media/WindowsXPHome/System Volume Information/_restore{6EF30072-1DEF-4634-8ED9-7237EBB38835}
    13K /media/WindowsXPHome/System Volume Information/_restore{A04149E2-C166-4E14-8D9F-B0A71CCBDCC0}
    256M /media/WindowsXPHome/System Volume Information/_restore{D0965416-7331-47EC-A11B-0CCFAF63C8C2}
    20K /media/WindowsXPHome/System Volume Information/tracking.log

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    I guess it must be that. Okay, next question, does Vista allow you to set the size of the space used for system restore and the like?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oakey View Post
    I guess it must be that. Okay, next question, does Vista allow you to set the size of the space used for system restore and the like?
    One would assume, as XP does.
    Its under the syetem restore tab, in system properties
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    Quote Originally Posted by Agent View Post
    One would assume, as XP does.
    Its under the syetem restore tab, in system properties
    You mean the 'System Protection' tab? It doesn't allow you to set the size, it has a 'how much space does system restore use?' help file, that says it might take up to 15% of the drive, but no option I can see that limits it.

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