Vista HDD Space

[hasan_hzl]

Hi,
I am a user of Vista Ultimate x64. My OS is installed in C. And the size of C is 40GB. Just 10GB of C is idle. Due to system restore, that free space is decreasing. I want to increase the size of C. Is it possible by using some programs? Or there is no need to do this?

Hasan

 

[johngalt]

You can free up space by removing old system restore points - here are a few tips. Note - this assumes your system is 100% completely trouble free - I would first run SFC /SCANNOW and chkdsk to make sure that you have no impending issues on your system before proceeding.

1. Manually create a system restore point - see http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76332-system-restore-point-create.html
2. Use Disk Cleanup to remove all older System Restore points - see http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76073-disk-cleanup.html
3. Create *another* system restore point again (this gives you 2 system restore points to use in case you have an error here in the future)
4. Finally, adjust the amount of space used by System Restore - by default it is at 12%, so roughly only 4 GB of space out of your 40, so that should be fine, unless you *really* need more space. See http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76227-system-restore-disk-space.html

Also, if you really need space that badly, I would look into an additional hard drive - they are a lot cheaper now.

 

[hasan_hzl]

Thank you for your reply. Actualy I have 2x500GB HDD's so space is not a problem but I wanted to learn if it can be a problem when size of my C: is low like 5-6GB or not. Thank you again.Hasan

 

[johngalt]

Not really - If you read the second link you'll see it is almost always set by default at 12% - so, on a 500 GB drive it will try to use 60 GB, but on a 5 GB drive it will try to use only 600 MB....