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cannot remove last system image backup

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  • Started 6 months ago by jibran
  • Latest reply from Hermitt
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jibran
Posts: 4

windows is on Drive C

back up on Drive D

system restore turned off

backups deleted

All system images deleted

Still the Backup and Restore shows 16.28 GB of space for system image in the space usage summary

Refresh has no effect either

how to remove this?

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scorpion99
scorpion99
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hello,
can you post us an image of this?

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Xhi
Xhi
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What does the drive itself show in Computer??

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whs
whs
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If there is nothing else on D, reformat it.

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jibran
Posts: 4

@Scorpion 99,
the image can be accessed with the link above

@whs,
cannot format yet... will buy an external hard drive and then i will reformat it

@xhi,
the drive itself with all the other files in Drive D shows around 231GB of space being utilized but the overall space being utilized by the disk drive is 251GB

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Xhi
Xhi
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Do you have show hidden and system files activated in Control Panel -> Folder Options -> View tab?

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jibran
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@xhi
yes but still cannot see any files in the WindowsImageBackup folder on drive D

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germ-x
germ-x
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since you didn't post any of your system specs. Could it be your factory recovery image?

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jibran
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@germ-x
that couldn't be, because whenever i used to decide to delete the all the system images it used to get back to zero, but not since the the past few days.. probably will have to get a external hard drive put the D-drive files on it and then format drive-D,
its not that big a deal but it would have been good to have around 16GB back, if anyone finds out how to fix this then cool, if not then no problem

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Xhi
Xhi
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Have you run a chkdsk D:\ /r on it. It could just be a correctable error in the indexes.

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Hermitt
Hermitt
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Have you tried this?
http://answers.microsoft.com/e.....c583f25007

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Lighthouse
Lighthouse
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Xhi. Why the backslash ?

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Xhi
Xhi
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Macht Nichts. Belt and suspenders kind of guy.

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Hermitt
Hermitt
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Question Removed by ME.

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