Installed Vista 64bit. Hard drive 160gb Old 32bit 58gb??

[mainframeguy]

Anyone know why I went from 58gb used on the old system to the new hard drive
1TB, 160gb on the New Installed System. I have not moved over my programs
and files so I am puzzled?

Thanks.
Sey

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Anyone know why I went from 58gb used on the old system to the new hard
drive
1TB, 160gb on the New Installed System. I have not moved over my programs
and files so I am puzzled?

Thanks.
Sey

What was the "old system"?

 

[mainframeguy]

Old was :
Intel D 930 3.0ghz
Intel D975xbx

Hitachi Deskstar 250GB, Sata
Windows Home Premium 32 Bit.
Radeon X1300 256mb
Kingston 4GB ddr2

Total was 52gb of Hard Drive?

Sey

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

System Restore, by default, reserves 15% of the drive space. On a 1TB drive,
that'd be 150GB. Add the OS, and you're easily at 160GB.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[mainframeguy]

Amazing, thanks you did it again! Saved me alot of time.
You know I have another question.
Is there a way to see this file?
Just curious but can I remove it or is it worth its weight?
Thanks.....
Sey

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

From an elevated command prompt (right cmd, choose 'run as admin.."), use
the vssadmin command to work with system restore defaults.

vssadmin list shadowstorage

will reveal the amount of space allocated to system restore.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org