HUGE system volume Information

External Since: Jun 24, 2008 Posts: 2

Do you have a legal copy of Window Vista Ultimate?

"ACiD GRiM" wrote:

>
> Ok, I solved it thanks to a lucky post here mentioning vssadmin briefly.
> That's all I needed to start trying out the command operators and
> figured it out on my own. So for anyone who is having a similar problem,
> much better than backing up your drives lol.
>
> open up your command line and type
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> vssadmin resize shadowstorage /for=<driveletter> /on=<driveletter> /maxsize=500MB
> --------------------
> 500MB is the minimum, if you are using vista, disabling system restore's
> shadow copy feature may delete all of the files (not just resize it),
> and for server 2008 uninstalling the "server backup feature" may do the
> same thing.
>
> An example execution would be:
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> vssadmin resize shadowstorage /for=x: /on=x: /maxsize=500MB
> --------------------
> the drive letter should be the same for both, and you can't leave one
> operator out. after doing this, I gained over 80GB of HDD space back!
> YEAH!
>
>
> --
> ACiD GRiM
>

External Since: Jun 11, 2008 Posts: 13

why the hell would it matter?

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ACiD GRiM