system retore will not give up the "real estate" on my hard drive

[leegold2]

I disabled System Restore. Notice that there's still a huge area of my
HD seemingly from system restore(?) How do I manually delete and free up
this area? It's not deletable by normal ways. The system will not give
up the "real estate" on my hard drive. When I look in a defrag prrogram
that maps it out - all that area is still there and I see new files that
install before or after that area. It's untouchable! It's not the paging
file.

I tried Disk cleanup and the option to clean sytem restore points but
has no effect. What could be going on? Thanks. I'm using a GAteway laptop.

 

[Kelly]

Your points are here:

Go to: Windows Explorer/Tools/Folder Options/View/Show Hidden File and
Uncheck Hide Protected Operating System Files.

Then go to: C:\System Volume Information

How to Gain Access to the System Volume Information Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;309531

/taskbarplus!.htm

 

[Alex Nichol]

I disabled System Restore. Notice that there's still a huge area of my
HD seemingly from system restore(?) How do I manually delete and free up
this area? It's not deletable by normal ways. The system will not give
up the "real estate" on my hard drive.

You need to have Folder Options - View set to show Hidden files, and
*not* Hide Protected mode ones and then open the System Volume
Information folder and delete everything in it. On an NTFS drive you
will need to be logged on as an Administrator, and first take ownership
of it (if XP Home this will imply booting to Safe Mode and taking
Administrator from the Welcome screen). R-click the folder, Properties,
Security, click Advanced and on Ownership select your regular Admin
account, check the box to apply to Sub-objects, then Apply/OK. This
will allow access to the folder now and for the future.

SR BTW is by default given 12% of he drive to play with; this on a big
drive is too much for its health. Try setting it up again, but this
time take Settings for the drive and giving it say 500MB