re: Harddrive Space constantly disappearing
Friday, October 9, 2009 at 11:29 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Curtis Degler
(3 messages posted)
I am using a laptop so adding additional internal drives is not possible, but I store
NOTHING on the C: drive but the OS and the program files and what they commandeer,
and everything else goes on the E: drive or on one of about 3 eternal harddrives
I run.
The main HD drive totals about 250GB and the C: drive is allocated 75GB, which should
be enough. As I said, but will repeat, the amount of free space fluctuates WILDLY
and constantly and is hard to predict. I recently downloaded and installed the Windows
SP 2 for Vista and suddenly the free space went from 8GB to about 37GB!!!! Now it
is slowly creeping down. Using various file folder managers and tree sizers (include
the one mentioned in the other post called treesize free) I get currently a total
partition size of 39GB, while the physical size of the C partition is closer to 75GB.
My pagefile.sys is set at 3.3 GB and doesn't change much - set as "automatically
manage paging file size for all drives" BTW Should I change that for better perfomance
I may well have hidden stored multiple restore and recovery points. Where are these?
How can I manage them? Specific explicit directions are helpful with someone as unknowledgeable
as myself about the hidden inner workings of this OS. Thanks Curt
On Friday, October 9, 2009 at 5:23 am, Charlie Hadden wrote:
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>Bottom line is you are using way to small of a hard drive for your system.
>But to you issue and causes. One of the largest absorbers of space are updates.
Then
>there is the page file. In days go by they used to tell people to set this at a
static
>size of 2.5 times the size of your memory. That no longer is a valid thing to do
>nor because of the different way things operate and the way memory is utilized is
>that a valid size.Hard drive space is too cheep to go that way. I have an old drive
>that I threw in just for the Page file to use all by itself.
>There are many things that take up space that you never see, even with view all
files
>turned on. Another example is the space used for the recovery. That grows rapidly.
>Think about every time you make a restore point. Also this can be managed manually,
>but be cautious. Don't become the guy that makes this too small or turns it off
then
>cry later when you don't have a restore point to go to after a crash. Small out
of
>date drives are every where and cheep. When you can buy a nice sized new drive for
>$50 and run a second or third drive for different things, there is little excuse
>for these things to happen. Vista runs nicely if you give it room to breathe.
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