Comments on: How To Reduce Disk Space Used By Windows Vista System Restore

By: Zoam

Zoam — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:24:56 +0000

I had a 687GB hard drive..it appears that the default amount of space was set to 103Gb..which is wierd..I set it 20GB is it OK or did i make it too less

By: Jello

Jello — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:49:51 +0000

This was an AMAZING help, Im bookmarking this page asap. It beat days of 'dell help and support' instantly.

I have just reinstalled Vista. My C: is 223GB, with 19GB free. I can see the C:Windows folder is 11GB, any idea where the missing 8GB might be?

When I ran the vssadmin list shadowstorage it showed my C: using 27GB, I reduced it to 5GB.

On my D: (recovery?) is 10GB alocated with 4GB being used. Is this ness?

Again, thanks so much for this article.

ps- before reducing the shadowstorage, I ran disk cleanup and saved 5GB as well.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:13:20 +0000

Yep this worked perfectly for me, I figured I had just a lot more music than I had thought and it wasn't until I started moving files around that I noticed an issue. Using these commands I was able to check my shadow storage usage and it was, like many others, unbounded and by now using over 50% of my hardrive space.

Great information and a great thing to check out~Cheers

By: Tammy

Tammy — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:00:56 +0000

Thanks. I went from having 6GB of free space to 14GB. Bit worried though as I have a 80GB drive and set the limit to 2GB. Just have to wait and see….

By: Gaurab

Gaurab — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:54:54 +0000

thanks man, it really works…..my system restore was using up 40GB and now i could limit it to 4GB…….thanks a million!!!!!!!

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:10:52 +0000

Your article on "How To Reduce Disk Space Used By Windows Vista System Restore" was a godsend and brought sanity to a very frustrated newbie to Vista. After many fruitless ours of googling to find a solution that WORKS was a relief.
Many Thanks

By: Kris

Kris — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:36:50 +0000

Thanks for this info, helped me out a lot when I went from 50GB of HDD space down to 8GB in a day from just browsing the web. Not sure why Microsoft didn't put a natural cap on it instead of how much system restore could grab.

By: Mer

Mer — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:31:19 +0000

Thanks for this I have a 500 gig HD and the maxsize was set at 68 gig.. I thought that was a bit much, so I changed it to 38 gigs. First time I've ever used the command prompt btw – I was always too scared to use it, even tho I've been using computers since 2000 – I was afraid I'd mess something up. However it worked and everything went fine. Thanks again

By: Kevin Roos

Kevin Roos — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:18:59 +0000

THANK YOU!! The shadow copies on my mother's Vista laptop had claimed 200GB of space (I'm not exaggerating) and I was totally stumped as to where all the space was going. Your suggestions cleared it right up!

By: Clinton

Clinton — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:20:03 +0000

I can not thank you enough for this page. Recently a program I installed destroyed my music directory. The program was call Songbird and was supposed to be the Firefox of Media Players. But after installing it completely destroyed my music. After deleted all my music though, I realized that about 50 gigs were completely uncounted for, and through this tutorial, was able to recover that space. Thank you so much!

By: almny

almny — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:52:34 +0000

thanks man
you can use disk cleanup and click more options and and choose clean up

By: YorkshireJumbo

YorkshireJumbo — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:46:57 +0000

I've just released 184.3Gb! I only noticed recently, as I've installed and removed a couple of trial program suites. I thought SWMBO and the kids were storing lots of things, but it turns out I had the "UNBOUNDED" upper limit

By: Josias

Josias — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:52:40 +0000

AWESOME ARTICLE!!!
Just SO useful..!
Thanks

By: pasha

pasha — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:10:57 +0000

iam using windoes vista operaing system, my hard disk shows more space as occupied but if i see in hard disk it is having only half of the space than shown why it is showing like that is ther any way to solve the problem

By: Watching The Net

Watching The Net — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:58:08 +0000

@pH

Using the vssadmin command as shown in the article will not effect your hidden recovery partition.