is my new hard drive giving me the right info

[yvesj]

this is really good stuff .
yes i do have 2 one gb stick brand new .the same time that i put in my 500 drive in .
my computer is all new .but not the motherboard .this the only thing i did not put in .in the last month .
now i will try to enable all the stuuf you mention above .
i let you know how i make out

thank you very much .now i have [211] of free space .so i did gain a lot by doing that .
now do am still safe with a restore point .
let me know .you did a really good job for me today .

come to thing of it .
some time when i make a boubou i do a restore .some time 3 days back .now by enable it i will not be able to do so is that right .

one more thing cant i do the same with my window 7 when i go back on it . when i don't really know .i like vista better

 

[brummyfan]

If you allocate 12GiB space for your system restore as suggested by Dwarf,you will have restore points for more than 3 days.

 

[richc46]

I watched as this topic has gone from how much space should be used to deleting restore points. I think that it is very unwise to delete the points for a few GB of space. Maybe not today, or tomorrow, but one day you will come back to the Forum with a problem that is difficult to resolve because of the fact that SR was not used. Trust me, one day you will be very happy that you have System Restore.

 

[yvesj]

ho boy .now how cant i enable it back .
because i realy need the restore system .
like you said some i do use it to pass 3 days .
is there a way yo put it back on .
thank you

 

[yvesj]

come to thing of it .
some time when i make a boubou i do a restore .some time 3 days back .now by enable it i will not be able to do so is that right .

one more thing cant i do the same with my window 7 when i go back on it . when i don't really know .i like vista better

yes but how do i do that .

 

[yvesj]

If you allocate 12GiB space for your system restore as suggested by Dwarf,you will have restore points for more than 3 days.

sorry wrong place .but how cant i do that .

 

[yvesj]

ok i did check mark restore point again and i created e restore point .now i am ok to go i thing .

 

[yvesj]

I watched as this topic has gone from how much space should be used to deleting restore points. I think that it is very unwise to delete the points for a few GB of space. Maybe not today, or tomorrow, but one day you will come back to the Forum with a problem that is difficult to resolve because of the fact that SR was not used. Trust me, one day you will be very happy that you have System Restore.

well every one know that i am no good with a computer so i did follow is advice what do you want me to do .argue with him .
i guess not .
like you said you need it .
what he should a done is explain to me that if do that i will not have the restore system any more .in that case i will never desable it .
ha well it life .

 

[richc46]

Turn the system restore on:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66971-system-restore.html

If space on the HardDrive becomes a problem, buy an external hard drive. You can keep your games, programs etc on that drive.

Everyone is different, but I have helped so many that had a problem because they did not use system restore. You may even want to make an image of your entire hard drive and store it in a safe place, just in case,

 

[richc46]

Download this and read it. When you are ready make a copy of your entire hard drive. If anything ever happens you will be ready.

Free Backup Software: Paragon Backup & Recovery Free Edition - Overview

 

[yvesj]

Turn the system restore on:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66971-system-restore.html

If space on the HardDrive becomes a problem, buy an external hard drive. You can keep your games, programs etc on that drive.

Everyone is different, but I have helped so many that had a problem because they did not use system restore. You may even want to make an image of your entire hard drive and store it in a safe place, just in case,

ok now i did check mark the system restore .
so from now is it going to creat a restore point automaticly .
here is the picture of it ,i did creat a retore point .
but guess what i installed vista on my drive on fryday and i created a restore point back to the 25 of marck .lol .vista was not even install then .
i was not thinking right

 

[yvesj]

Turn the system restore on:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66971-system-restore.html

If space on the HardDrive becomes a problem, buy an external hard drive. You can keep your games, programs etc on that drive.

Everyone is different, but I have helped so many that had a problem because they did not use system restore. You may even want to make an image of your entire hard drive and store it in a safe place, just in case,

no i should be ok because on my old 250 hard drive i had 166 free space on it last month from 2007.
so i do have more then that now so i be ok i thing .
if not like i said i buy a bigger drive [500] that all

 

[richc46]

If you set up system restore, it wil make restore points on a regular basis, you will be ok.

 

[yvesj]

now i am really happy .
because you know that i am no good on a pc and some time i really need to restore .
the last time when i had a big problem with my old drive i did restore to the fardess point i could .it was close to 2 weeks but that did not help my old drive .
but i do fix mistake by restoring back .
thank you very much .
i will be ok now .

 

[richc46]

Every member, here, will be very happy to help you if you have any future problems. Just post and you will be given any help that you may need.

In fact, I will give you a little gift. It is our index for all the great reference material that we have.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/139940-tutorial-index.html?filter[11]=General Tips

 

[yvesj]

thank you very much for that tutorial .you have every thing in there .
so i should be all set now .
thank again .
this is the best forum there is fast reply [help]and good help .
if i need any thing i will ask .
yvesj

 

[richc46]

You are so very welcome. Unlike a paid service, we have many here who can help and will be glad to assist with any problem.

 

[yvesj]

A drive marketed as 250GB actually has a capacity of 232GiB. This is because they are sold with their decimal capacity rather than their binary capacity.

So let's start with 232GiB. Vista itself will take up 15GiB, leaving 217GiB. By default, a paging (or swap) file and a hibernation file are automatically created, the size of each of those is equivalent to the amount of memory in your system. You haven't stated the amount of memory you have, so I am going to say 2GiB. This takes the total down to 213GiB. A full installation of Works 2006 is 3GiB. Total now 210GiB. By default, System Restore occupies 10% of your HDD capacity, so this accounts for 23GiB. The new total is now 187GiB. System drivers that are not built-in to Vista can account for another 1GiB. This leaves a total of 186GiB.

If you don't use hibernation, you can turn off that feature, saving 2GiB. New total now 188GiB.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/165508-hibernation-enable-disable.html

You can also reduce the amount of space allocated to System Restore, or even turn it off altogether. Potential saving: upto 23 GiB. If you disable System Restore, your new total will be 211GiB. I recommend that you allocate 5% to this (12GiB). With this allocation, your new total will be 199GiB.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66971-system-restore.html
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76227-system-restore-disk-space.html[/QUOTe

ok now i know how to do it .
but it is in [mb ]not gb .
so i like to leave about 5 gb of space so what that be in mb .
5000 ???mb

so if i put [5120] mb that will gave me 5 gb right .
is that snuff for my restore point

 

[yvesj]

A drive marketed as 250GB actually has a capacity of 232GiB. This is because they are sold with their decimal capacity rather than their binary capacity.

So let's start with 232GiB. Vista itself will take up 15GiB, leaving 217GiB. By default, a paging (or swap) file and a hibernation file are automatically created, the size of each of those is equivalent to the amount of memory in your system. You haven't stated the amount of memory you have, so I am going to say 2GiB. This takes the total down to 213GiB. A full installation of Works 2006 is 3GiB. Total now 210GiB. By default, System Restore occupies 10% of your HDD capacity, so this accounts for 23GiB. The new total is now 187GiB. System drivers that are not built-in to Vista can account for another 1GiB. This leaves a total of 186GiB.

If you don't use hibernation, you can turn off that feature, saving 2GiB. New total now 188GiB.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/165508-hibernation-enable-disable.html

You can also reduce the amount of space allocated to System Restore, or even turn it off altogether. Potential saving: upto 23 GiB. If you disable System Restore, your new total will be 211GiB. I recommend that you allocate 5% to this (12GiB). With this allocation, your new total will be 199GiB.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66971-system-restore.html
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76227-system-restore-disk-space.html[/QUOTe

ok now i know how to do it .
but it is in [mb ]not gb .
so i like to leave about 5 gb of space so what that be in mb .
5000 ???mb

ok now were to i put in the mb amount
cant you mark it in my picture

 

[brummyfan]

Hi yvesj,
That's for virtual memory, you actually have to look in this Tutorial to set your system restore space:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76227-system-restore-disk-space.html