delete system restore files 2

[leegold2]

I disabled System Restore. Notice that there's still a huge restore partiton ( not literally but a huge area of proprietary files ). How do I manually delete and free up this area? It's not deletable by normal ways. Thanks.

 

[bcastner]

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/q309/5/31.asp&NoWebContent=1

 

[leegold2]

Yes, But the system retore will not give up the "real estate" on my hard drive it once used. When I look in a defrag prrogram that maps it out - all that area is still there and I see new files that install before or after that area. It's untouchable!

 

[bcastner]

There is no provision in the filestore to reserve space such as you describe.

 

[linney]

Are you talking about a Recovery Partition created by an OEM so that you can restore your system in the event of failure to its factory condition? Or are you talking about Microsoft's System Restore program?

 

[leegold2]

I thought it was MS sytem restore doing it. And the laptop now is faster and "smoother" since I turned off system restore. But, this is a Gateway Laptop, so it possible there an OEM thing happening(?)

But note that AFAIK it's not technically a separate partition , it's on my C:\ and it's about the same size as my usable active install ie. I asume it was mirroring my install. Is it some Gateway thing?

btw, In the system volume Information folder there's one file: called tracking.log about 20K. Thanks

 

[bcastner]

What is its name?

 

[linney]

OEM's usually have a separate partition from your main one.
Try option 4 in Fdisk (if you have an old 9x Startup Disk) and see if that shows anything. Does Disk Management in XP show anything? Ask Gateway too.

Are you running third party programs such as GoBack or other data protection programs, or a Raid setup?

Some programs for showing disk space usage.

http://www.digallery.com/diskdata/

http://www.jam-software.com/treesize/

Any tracking log in the System Restore folder is just the remnants of turning off System Restore and not worth worrying about.