[Andybikecrazy]

I just reinstalled windows XP and made a 10GB partition on my 160GB RAID 0 for my OS. Now I got a message that I am running low on space on my OS drive C: I right click on the drive and I have 9.76 GB Capacity and 739MB free space. Now here is the strange part. Here are the the 3 folders I have on the drive. I have hidden files enabled.

Documents and settings 458MB
Program Files 2.57 GB
Windows 2.42GB

That doesn't add up to over 9 GBs!!! That should be about 5.5GB! Whats going on???

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[Retired Tech]

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[Andybikecrazy]

ahh.. so its system restore... shoulda thought of that... thanks... I guess there isn't away to make windows put system restore data on my other partition is there? I guess I should have made my OS partition a little bigger.

Edited by Andybikecrazy, 25 August 2006 - 02:21 PM.

[Retired Tech]

If you turn system restore off on the system drive it turns it off on all drives

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[Andybikecrazy]

yeah but I kinda want to keep it on.. I just lowered the amount of space it uses...

[Retired Tech]

That's what I was saying that there wasn't anything to gain because it needs to be running on the system drive

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