Comments on: Find and Free Up that “Missing” Disk Space http://www.vistaclues.com/find-and-free-up-that-missing-disk-space/ Windows Vista and Windows 7 Help Sun, 03 Apr 2011 23:48:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Al http://www.vistaclues.com/find-and-free-up-that-missing-disk-space/#comment-96246 Al Tue, 01 Feb 2011 23:58:01 +0000 http://www.vistaclues.com/?p=1090#comment-96246 Yes, the 'lost' space is used by System Restore points. Just temporaily disable and re-enable (or leave off) System Restore will delete these hidden files: Control Panel/System/Advanced System Settings/System Protection tab/ untick the C: drive and apply Yes, the ‘lost’ space is used by System Restore points.

Just temporaily disable and re-enable (or leave off) System Restore will delete these hidden files:

Control Panel/System/Advanced System Settings/System Protection tab/ untick the C: drive and apply

]]> By: Brian R http://www.vistaclues.com/find-and-free-up-that-missing-disk-space/#comment-94970 Brian R Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:34:46 +0000 http://www.vistaclues.com/?p=1090#comment-94970 I know I'm way late to this party, but maybe this will help someone else that finds this via Google. The reader, and Sam Lou, may be getting bitten by Vista System Restore. It's supposed to keep a few GB of space for restore points, but it can sometimes get confused and allow the backups to grow with no bound. I just had this same problem on my laptop - my 465 GB (formatted size) drive was reporting <1GB free, but only ~315GB of used space (via the TreeSize utility). Turns out I had 152GB of restore points saved. Windows apparently hides those from pretty much everyone, so they don't show up in the utilities. Fixing it is fairly easy, but you do have to drop to the commandline. Detailed instructions here: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=1077 I know I’m way late to this party, but maybe this will help someone else that finds this via Google.

The reader, and Sam Lou, may be getting bitten by Vista System Restore. It’s supposed to keep a few GB of space for restore points, but it can sometimes get confused and allow the backups to grow with no bound.

I just had this same problem on my laptop – my 465 GB (formatted size) drive was reporting <1GB free, but only ~315GB of used space (via the TreeSize utility). Turns out I had 152GB of restore points saved. Windows apparently hides those from pretty much everyone, so they don't show up in the utilities.

Fixing it is fairly easy, but you do have to drop to the commandline. Detailed instructions here: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=1077

]]> By: Sam Lou http://www.vistaclues.com/find-and-free-up-that-missing-disk-space/#comment-94344 Sam Lou Sun, 18 Jul 2010 02:16:03 +0000 http://www.vistaclues.com/?p=1090#comment-94344 The Scanner program is very nice. When I scanned, I could not understand the report. Let me explain: The purple circle reports 67.5GB used on C:. When I move to the next layer and add the individual components, it comes to only 47.25GB. So where is the missing 20.25GB? How can I locate this chunk of space, where is it being used? The Scanner program is very nice. When I scanned, I could not understand the report. Let me explain: The purple circle reports 67.5GB used on C:. When I move to the next layer and add the individual components, it comes to only 47.25GB. So where is the missing 20.25GB? How can I locate this chunk of space, where is it being used?

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