system restore suspended because of space but there IS space!

[Margo Guda]

On the system restore tab of system properties I have tried to allocate
less disk space for system restore points, and turned it off for drives
I do not want monitored. I would like to keep system restore turned on
for the system drive only, actually. The system drive is a 60 GB
partition with more than 40 GB available. But system restore is
suspended because there is not enough space? I have run disk cleanup and
removed temp, cache, etc files. There are oodles of bytes available on
the system. I have also moved the pagefile to another, otherwise unused
partition. What is happening, and why can't I turn on system restore?
How much space should I reserve for it?
Thanks in advance for advice.

Margo Guda.

 

[JS]

See this MS KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299904/en-us
Apparently there is a 15 minute wait after enough space is made available
for the suspended message to go away.

JS

 

[Thomas Wendell]

Also, about your moving the page file: You moved it to another partition,
but is that partition o another physical HD?? If not, move it back, as the
system, while reading/writing the pagefile, has to move a long way to
another part of the disk instead of being at least somewhere near the data,
thus creating a slowdown of the computer...

The page is usually better off being on the boot/system partition or on
another physical HD
It being on another physical HD can speed up disk access for programs
slightly, as the disk heads are usually near the data used, the pagefile
access being on the other HD...



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