How do I get back the HD space for restores

[sparks]

When I installed XP it went and took about 15% of my drives for
restores. I went in and said only drive C needs anything. I disabled
the other drivers but I still lost about 15-20% of the drives. Norton
drive speed shows the space and can't get it back....I enabled the
restores and tried to set them to nothing..NO WAY if you want a
restore point its 5% min. and disable you still loose 5%.
What is wrong with this picture ???????

IS there a way around this crap?

thanks big time for my hd space back

anyone ??


Sparks

 

[purplehaz]

Start, all programs, accessories, system tools, disk cleanup, choose the
drive, hit ok, more options tab, clean up under system restore section.

 

[sparks]

Well that got back some of it.
Why does MS put a restore on all drives by default?
What do you need a restore on any drive besides the drive that
XP is installed on?
This drive has nothing but temp files and some crap stuff that you
could not build a restore for as far as I can tell.

sparks

 

[Alex Nichol]

When I installed XP it went and took about 15% of my drives for
restores. I went in and said only drive C needs anything. I disabled
the other drivers but I still lost about 15-20% of the drives. Norton
drive speed shows the space and can't get it back....I enabled the
restores and tried to set them to nothing..NO WAY if you want a
restore point its 5% min. and disable you still loose 5%.

Disable system restore at Control Panel - System - System restore.

Then reboot; have Folder Options - View set to show Hidden files, and
*not* Hide Protected mode ones and delete the contents of the System
Volume Information on each drive.

Then set SR up again, and highlight each drive, take Settings and check
the 'disable on this drive' for each one that you do not want protected
(I see little point in having anything other than C on).
You can with a little care set lower proportions of the drive - on a 56
GB one I can easily select 2% and can select 1% with care in moving the
slide. Or even 0% which gives 50 MB (and that has no point - 200 MB is
minimal)