Re: [Thinkpad] RE: Thinkpad Digest, Vol 22, Issue 45

Right click on My Computer, select Properties, select System Restore. Move
the slider to the left all the way in order to minimize the space taken up
by old restore points. You won't hurt anything. You're just relesing some
space since it's needed. After you click OK, you might have to wait a
minuite while the OS cleans out some old folders and re-allocates the disk
space.

Once that's done, reboot and defrag the hard drive. When that's done, take a
look at the new amount of space available.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Goodman" <goodmanse@hotmail.com>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Cc: <goretsky@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 4:16 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] RE: Thinkpad Digest, Vol 22, Issue 45

> ALL, Aryeh, Tony, Ben,
>
> A. Tony's Questions:
>
> In Computer Management I have two partitions:
>
> 1. "IBM_PRELOAD (C:), 20.55 GB NTFS Healthy (System)"
> 2. "IBM_SERVICE, 13.71 GB FAT32 Healthy (UnKnown Partition)"
>
> When I right click my C drive for Properties I have:
>
> 19.6 GB Used Space
> 952 MG Free Space
>
> As you can see, I'm really low.
>
> Yes, I'm on Windows XP
>
> B. Aryeh's suggestions:
>
> " If memory serves, by default System
> Restore allocates 12% of a disk's space for this function. You could
> reduce that or disable it entirely by right-clicking on the My Computer
icon
> on your Desktop, selecting Properties from the popup menu and clicking
> on the Sytem Restore tab to change or disable it."
>
> This sounds risky and I'm not sure how you're directing the process.
>
> I've done all the suggested reducing you mentioned in your message below
> including getting ride of applications I'm not using, cleaning out My
> Documents, etc.
>
> C. IBM Customer Service
>
> They suggested:
>
> 1. either reinstall the hard drive, after I backup my hard drive on an
> external media, and then repartition the drive to recapture the space or
>
> 2. purchase "partition magic" as tool to help me reorganize my C hard
drive.
>
> Again, I'm looking for more insight and help. Thank you,
>
> Stephen
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 20:27:29 -1000
> From: Ben Plaut <bplaut@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] t40 512 : running out of space, help!
> To: Thinkpad@stderr.org
> Message-ID: <8143393050716232729788336@mail.gmail.com>
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>
> i remember there was something in IBM R&R that let you delete
> all but your
> latest backup, search the forums for it
>
> it cleared up a whopping 31gb of space?!
>
> On 7/15/05, Anthony R. Gold <thinkpadlist@ahjg.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:50:09 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> > > 2. If I did do something to the HD to reserve space for
> backup, how can
> >I > capture that back?
> >
> >Assuming this in Windows XP:
> >
> >1) Right click on My Computer and then left click on Manage
> >2) Left click on Disk Management
> >3) Examine Disk 0 and note what Volumes and Unallocated space
> exists. A
> >table of volume names and descriptions appears in the top
> right panel and
> >the names along with their sizes are given in the lower right
> panel.
> >
> >Next:
> >
> >1) Double Left click on My Computer
> >2) For each Hard Disk Drive, right click on the drive and then
> left click
> >on Properties. Note for each Drive the Used space and the Free
> space.
> >
> >If just looking at those results did not give you solutions to
> your
> >problem, report the numbers back here for further comments.
> >
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>
>
>
> --
> Ben Plaut
> bplaut@gmail.com
>
> --
> Ben Plaut
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>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 01:35:31 -0700
> From: Aryeh Goretsky <goretsky@gmail.com>
> Subject: [Thinkpad] Re: t40 512 : running out of space, help!
> To: thinkpad@stderr.org
> Cc: Stephen Goodman <goodmanse@hotmail.com>
> Message-ID:
> <6.2.1.2.2.20050717012534.03dccb40@mail.adelphia.net>
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>
> Hello,
>
> I don't use the IBM backup software myself, but I am guessing it
> stores
> an image of the disk or a "snapshot" of changed files when run,
> is that
> correct?
>
> If you are running Microsoft Windows XP, you can reduce the
> amount of
> disk space used by the System Restore program, which creates a
> "snapshot"
> of the files on the system. If memory serves, by default System
> Restore
> allocates 12% of a disk's space for this function. You could
> reduce that
> or disable it entirely by right-clicking on the My Computer icon
> on your
> Desktop, selecting Properties from the popup menu and clicking
> on the
> Sytem Restore tab to change or disable it.
>
> Likewise, you can change (or entirely disable) the amount of
> disk space
> reserved for the Recycle Bin. I believe the default value is
> 10% of the
> disks's space. To change this, right-click on the Recycle Bin
> on your
> Desktop and select Properties from the popup menu.
>
> If you use Internet Explorer as your web browser, you can change
> the
> size (and location) of the Temporary Internet File folder by
> running it
> and selecting Tools -> Internet Options from the main menu.
> Clicking on
> the Settings button will allow you to see and change how much
> disk space
> is allocated for temporary files, and clicking on the Delete
> button will
> allow you to clear them from the system.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Aryeh Goretsky
>
>
> At 10:00 AM 7/16/2005, you wrote:
> >Message: 3
> >Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:50:09 -0400
> >From: "Stephen Goodman" <goodmanse@hotmail.com>
> >Subject: [Thinkpad] t40 512 : running out of space, help!
> >To: thinkpad@stderr.org
> >Message-ID: <BAY19-F177D321513CCDF630BEA9EB8D00@phx.gbl>
> >Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed
> >
> >Good afternoon,
> >
> >I have Think Pad T40 with 512 RAM. About a year ago I was using
> the IBM
> >backup software and think (not sure) ended up reserving a bulk
> of the RAM
> >for this backup option. My Computer shows the "Total Size" is
> 20.5, so it
> >must have gone somewhere.
> >
> >Well, I'm at a point where I've almost tapped out all of my
> hard drive
> >space. I went through and clean up the disk space and even
> removed
> >application I'm not using. However, I still need more space.
> >
> >Can anybody help?
> >
> >1. How can I capture more HD space?
> >2. If I did do something to the HD to reserve space for backup,
> how can I
> >capture that back?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >goodmanse
>
>
>
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