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After searching here, I found out where my 43GB of hard drive space vanished
to. 38GB of actual used space, 43GB of system restore space (3 restore
points, had computer for 1 month). 43GB!!! The partition is 146GB. That is
almost 1/3 of my disk space that is completely hidden from me (not 15% as
claimed). It was 15% of my total physical disk space, but it had been
partitioned and was now 30% and it never readjusted after the repartitioning
(issue #1).
I should not have to search the internet for 'mysteriously vanishing disk
space'. There should be no reason that I cannot tell where that extra space
went to from Explorer. There is nothing that notifies me where the space
went. Even after seeing something that suggested it was system restore, it
was still hard to find. I went to the system restore GUIs and found nothing
useful regarding the missing space. I had to dig to find this command line
tool to tell me exactly where my space went. And not just a command line
tool, I had to run cmd.exe in a special administrator mode first. This is
BAD and this issue will come up again and again as Vista becomes more widely
used. You need to display something on Drive C that says exactly where that
missing space is. I am an software engineer, and it took me an hour of
searching to find this. Imagine what the average user will go through. It's
not user friendly and should be addressed. Imagine how I felt when I first
found this problem, and it says I have used 2/3 of my disk space in one
month. Maybe instead of showing just the used space bar (progress like bar)
as blue for used and white for free (or blue and pink in the used space pie),
add another slice for system restore since it takes up such a large amount of
space.
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to. 38GB of actual used space, 43GB of system restore space (3 restore
points, had computer for 1 month). 43GB!!! The partition is 146GB. That is
almost 1/3 of my disk space that is completely hidden from me (not 15% as
claimed). It was 15% of my total physical disk space, but it had been
partitioned and was now 30% and it never readjusted after the repartitioning
(issue #1).
I should not have to search the internet for 'mysteriously vanishing disk
space'. There should be no reason that I cannot tell where that extra space
went to from Explorer. There is nothing that notifies me where the space
went. Even after seeing something that suggested it was system restore, it
was still hard to find. I went to the system restore GUIs and found nothing
useful regarding the missing space. I had to dig to find this command line
tool to tell me exactly where my space went. And not just a command line
tool, I had to run cmd.exe in a special administrator mode first. This is
BAD and this issue will come up again and again as Vista becomes more widely
used. You need to display something on Drive C that says exactly where that
missing space is. I am an software engineer, and it took me an hour of
searching to find this. Imagine what the average user will go through. It's
not user friendly and should be addressed. Imagine how I felt when I first
found this problem, and it says I have used 2/3 of my disk space in one
month. Maybe instead of showing just the used space bar (progress like bar)
as blue for used and white for free (or blue and pink in the used space pie),
add another slice for system restore since it takes up such a large amount of
space.
----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/co...016&dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.general