Re: Lost/Fluctuating Harddrive free space

1) Its a personal computer
2) removed via 'add or remove programs' via the control panel
3) Using Norton 360

"Gerry" wrote:

Is the computer a server or a workstation?

My reaction is Rollback as soon as you deleted it added a snapshot to
it's piggy bank! How did you remove the programmes?

I wonder how users view these claims by the vendors of Rollback RX?
Windows System Restore uses 5-15% disk space per snapshot. RollBack Rx
only uses 0.1%
Does not reserve any portion of hard disk for "protected data". The
program data structure takes 0.07% of disk space to create up to 60,000
snapshots.
http://www.horizondatasys.com/217872.ihtml

Are you using any Norton (Symantec) products?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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XPnewb wrote:
Hello ppl,

I'm having problems with my C: which is a single drive (no
partitions) of about 110GB

I just uninstalled 2 programmes from C:, about 5GB each and my free
space went from about 33GB to 18GB which doesn'tmake sense as it
should increase.

When i tried to use O&Odefrag to analyze my com, saw that it too
registered C: as 18GB free space, however the drive map was mostly
empty. Shouldnt that mean that I should have alot more free space.
Another weird thing i noticed is that when i select all the files in
C: (even after showing hidden files and hidden protected system
files), it amounts to about 30GB. I should have about 70-80GB free
space.

I'm also using Rollback which takes snapshots of my C:, but I
seriously dun think the snapshots take up that much space (30GB?? is
waaay too much).

I then did a checkdisk which required a restart to check for bad
sectors. After the check and restart, my C: was 22GB. Now here is the
strange thing, my free space started climbing all by itself slowly
even though I wasnt doign anything. It climbed to about 42.9GB which
makes mroe sense, as i deleted 10Gb from the 2 programmes.

However, that means that my C: is using about 60GB (111-42.9). But as
said earlier, all files in C: only amonuts to 30GB. What happened to
the other 30GB?

Hope you guys can help me figure this one out!



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