If you??™re having trouble getting shadow copies to work, try
disabling any ???fix-it??? utilities on your PC until you track down the culprit.
Choose how space is allocated for restore points
Restore points can consume as much as 15% of your hard disk??™s total capacity;
on a 320 GB drive, that means up to 48 GB can be sucked up by previous
versions of your files, hardware drivers, and other detritus.
To find out how much space restore points are currently taking up, open a
Command Prompt window in administrator mode (see Chapter 8), type this
command:
vssadmin list shadowstorage
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and press Enter to produce a report that looks like this:
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
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Shadow Copy Storage association
For volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{3b5ab54e-c86b-11cb-a2d6-306f6f6e7963}\
Shadow Copy Storage volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{3b5ab54e-c86b-11cb-a2d6-
306f6f6e7963}\
Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 11.706 GB
Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 12.286 GB
Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 13.83 GB
Here, restore points and shadow copies consume about 12 GB. The files
themselves are stored in the \System Volume Information folder, which is
hidden in Windows Explorer unless you turn off the Hide protected operating
system files option covered in Chapter 2. (Regardless of the setting,
Windows will never let you view the files therein directly.
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