System Volume Information?

Surfer · 14 Feb 2015 at 12:06

Hi i was using treesize to check what is taking up space on my ssd.

I noticed that "System Volume Information" apparently takes up 9.3 gigs! :eek:

(3 files in the folder with weird long character file names.. one is 8.7 gig and the others are a couple of hundred mb)

Is this normal? (ssd size is 238 gig)

Also Windows 7 takes up about 21 gigs this is about standard right?

My pagefile is 7.9 gigs.

Just trying to see if i can free up more space on my ssd.

John24 · 14 Feb 2015 at 12:09

That's where the System Restore points are kept. Disabling system restore will remove them and stop them being recreated.

Surfer · 14 Feb 2015 at 12:11

ahh whoops that explains it

thanks! I just reconfigured the system restore usage size to sort it thanks.

ED209 · 14 Feb 2015 at 12:22

I don't use system restore, mines disabled and all restore points deleted

John24 · 14 Feb 2015 at 12:23

obvious when someone say it isn't it but not at the time

You can save a bit more space with the windows update cleanup option in disk cleanup. If you've just installed windows there won't be a lot unless you installed from an RTM disk then SP1, but it's something you can run every 6 months or so to free up some space.

ED209, nor me, just create a backup image instead with Paragon Hard Disk Manager.

ED209 · 14 Feb 2015 at 12:27

John24 said:
obvious when someone say it isn't it but not at the time

ED209, nor me, just create a backup image instead with Paragon Hard Disk Manager.

i keep nothing i cant re download or i have on my external hard drive to get back from so doesnt matter if my OS dies or needs a re install

John24 · 14 Feb 2015 at 12:35

I do it for convenience, PITA setting up windows to my liking and reinstalling all my apps. Don't keep a backup of my netbook though, that doesn't take much setting up.