Lilla
April 14th 03, 02:15 AM
Try deleting all but the last restore point, if this doesn't free up the
space, try the following which can be necessary to clear a virus that is
stored in a Restore Point.
Control Panel > System > System Restore.
Disable System Restore , click Apply to delete all Restore Points.
Enable System Restore, click Apply to create a new Check Point.
Lilla
"windows xp user" > wrote in message
...
> My 40 GB hard drive only has 13 GB free space. I deleted
> temp files, did a disk cleanup, defragged, ran a virus
> scan, checked the size of my user directories and didn't
> see ANYTHING that would add up to ANYWHERE near 27GB! But
> noticed during the virus scan that it took forever to scan
> a folder called C:\System Volume Information. I looked and
> that folder and in Properties is lists:
> size: 28 GB
> size on disk: 18.8 GB
> What is all this stuff? How is it getting generated and
> how do I get rid of it? I thought it was generated from
> System Restore but I've limited that to 12% of my disk
> space. What is going on here?
> Thanks!
space, try the following which can be necessary to clear a virus that is
stored in a Restore Point.
Control Panel > System > System Restore.
Disable System Restore , click Apply to delete all Restore Points.
Enable System Restore, click Apply to create a new Check Point.
Lilla
"windows xp user" > wrote in message
...
> My 40 GB hard drive only has 13 GB free space. I deleted
> temp files, did a disk cleanup, defragged, ran a virus
> scan, checked the size of my user directories and didn't
> see ANYTHING that would add up to ANYWHERE near 27GB! But
> noticed during the virus scan that it took forever to scan
> a folder called C:\System Volume Information. I looked and
> that folder and in Properties is lists:
> size: 28 GB
> size on disk: 18.8 GB
> What is all this stuff? How is it getting generated and
> how do I get rid of it? I thought it was generated from
> System Restore but I've limited that to 12% of my disk
> space. What is going on here?
> Thanks!