Re: Shadow copy filling hard drive, unable to turn off.

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BD wrote:
> I am running Server 2003, with a raid array. I have about 160 GB on
> my e: drive and it has filled up with 132 GB's of shadow copy files.
> I was first alerted that something was wrong when I attempted to
> remote desktop into the server and check on some apps. Remote
> desktop didn't work. I verified that my remote desktop setup was
> unchanged on both ends but couldn't find out what was happening. At
> this point I checked the logs and found some issues related to disk
> space.
> Upon checking my e: drive, I found 132 GB's of used, yet unaccounted
> for space, with only about 4 GB free. I finally found the files and
> they were in the "system volume information" folder on the drive.
> After further research on this folder I found that it holds the
> backup information.
> Every attempt to click on the tab for shadow copy on the properties
> window of the e: drive freezes that window. Any attempt to go into
> disk management is unsuccessful as well.
> As you can see, the lack of available disk space is severely
> hindering my ability to solve the problem of lack of available disk
> space.
> I have read through many posts both here and on other tech sites and
> found some information on using the "vssadmin" command. Is this my
> best bet, if so, can someone give me more specific switches/arguments
> to use with this to either turn off the shadow copy or recover a
> majority of the space?
> Also, are there other things I should be looking at that might also be
> causing these problems?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> BD

Did you try to work in safe mode?
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