Richard

Well Richard there are not many MVPs who support Symantec software.
Is it just Ghost?

I have some sympathy with your views regarding System Restore in that
it should only monitor the system drive but does not. Removable drives
often cause grief for users. However, doesn't Ghost create enormous
hidden folders? Users can suddenly find themself running out of disk
space and have no idea why!

--

Regards.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Richard Urban wrote:
> I am honestly not an expert on system restore. Since XP came out, I
> always turned it off after installing a decent imaging program,
> whether it be Ghost or TrueImage. My stored system images have
> always
> taken care of any cases where I have to go back to another point in
> time, and I can control when the images are created.
>
> There is no sense of creating an image when the system is in an
> unknown state. System Restore knows nothing of the state/stability
> of
> your computer. It just creates a restore point. Now, you go back to
> that restore point and you are in an instable condition, one that
> you
> may have previously rectified by further work and adjustments to
> your
> system configuration.
> System restore just doesn't seem like a good thing for me. I want
> the
> control.
>
>
> "Gerry Cornell" <gcjc@tenretnitb.com> wrote in message
> news:Oq6aY4MPHHA.4172@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Richard
>>
>> What is the procedure for viewing the contents of the System Volume
>> Information folder? Is it true that the default setting is 15% of
>> volume? Can the default be decreased? If so how?
>>
>> Setting default disk allocations based on a percentage of volume
>> has in many quarters for a long time been felt to be a misguided
>> approach. Are there any better ways for calculating a reasonable
>> allocation? Is a consensus of opinion on this issue emerging?
>>
>> abcd please note 15% of 75 gb is 11.25 gb i.e your missing space!
>>
>> --
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> Gerry
>> ~~~~
>> FCA
>> Stourport, England
>> Enquire, plan and execute
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> Richard Urban wrote:
>>> Your apparent lost space is in the same locations that it was with
>>> Windows XP. These are hidden/system files and System Restore files
>>> (System Volume Information).
>>>
>>>
>>> "abcd" <abcd@abcd.com> wrote in message
>>> news:%23jT81WMPHHA.3944@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>>> I have 75GB on hard disk. I have installed Vista,SQL Server, MSDN
>>>> library. It shows 28GB is consumed. If I count the total of all
>>>> the
>>>> folders it comes to around 16GB. Where is 11GB?