http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: How 2 reduce Shadow Storage? en Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:08:17 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/how-2-reduce-shadow-storage#post-30623 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:45:27 +0000 Lighthouse 30623@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p><a href='http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/my-hard-disk-doesnt-have-the-entire-storage-as-it-is-supposed-to?replies=5#post-30391'>http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/my-hard-disk-doesnt-have-the-entire-storage-as-it-is-supposed-to?replies=5#post-30391</a> </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/how-2-reduce-shadow-storage#post-30621 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:43:29 +0000 whs 30621@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Your 250GB's you bought are quoted in decimal. What you see on the system is in Binary (7% less) - about 18GB's less for your disk. The rest could be restore points that were already written into your shadowstorage plus some other staroge used by components. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/how-2-reduce-shadow-storage#post-30619 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:40:02 +0000 SpaceMonkey 30619@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>alright thanx guys... I guess I'll keep the shadowspace but why does a 250 GB hard disk show only 226gb free?! </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/how-2-reduce-shadow-storage#post-30401 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:51:21 +0000 Lighthouse 30401@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Having just 1 restore point available is still a bit risky. If it is corrupted, the are "Up the creek without a paddle".<br /> I personally use ERUNT, and keep a backup of the restore points on a different partition to C: </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/how-2-reduce-shadow-storage#post-30400 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:48:01 +0000 whs 30400@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>frigiliana, this does not reduce the shadowstorage allocation - it just frees it up temporarily. It wipes out the shadows (but one) that are in there. I do NOT recommend this. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/how-2-reduce-shadow-storage#post-30397 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:41:44 +0000 frigiliana 30397@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Don't now if this helps but when you do a disc clean you get a box saying more options and one of the options is to clean all shadow copies except the last one , that's what i do and it gives me back a lot of hard drive </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/how-2-reduce-shadow-storage#post-30396 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:38:50 +0000 whs 30396@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I just answered your other post. Apparently you already figured the shadowstorage story out. I would NOT recommend to reduce the shadowstorage - in fact I would increase it. You will really appreciate this the day you need to reset your system. With a 250GB disk you really do not need all that space for a normal operation. My 250GB disk shows 160GB free, since weeks. Once the system has operated for a while you will find the free space to be pretty stable and at a high level.<br /> Now if you absolutely want to reduce the shadowstorage (against better advice), come back and I show you how. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/how-2-reduce-shadow-storage#post-30394 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:31:15 +0000 SpaceMonkey 30394@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Hey cud any1 help me by telling me how 2 reduce my Shadow Storage in Vista? I had bought a laptop with 250 Gb storage and it's only showing 226gb and after installing vista another 20 gb got used up... I had read in a post tat shadow storage uses up memory space so i checked mine and mine was using 5gb and allocated was 6gb with max being 19gb... i want to know if i can reduce this and also tell me why a shadow storage is used? is it necessary for me to allocate 6gb? and cud u tell me if the 24gb missing is a hardware problem or just hidden and i can retrieve it? </p>