That may work, but I don't speak hexadecimal so ...

You can use the "vssadmin" command from an elevated cmd prompt to change the
amount of disk space system restore and shadow storage use. See:

http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/arc...ows-vista.aspx

for more than you probably want to know. I used the "vssadmin resize
shadowstorage" command to limit the space to 10GB on my 320GB boot drive.
That seems adequate, at least for my purposes.

"Alexander Suhovey" <asuhovey******.com> wrote in message
news:F51DA2DA-97B1-43AA-9E71-672B40C285F5@microsoft.com...
> Gerry,
>
> There's a DiskPercent entry under
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\S ystemRestore\cfg
> registry key. It's value is 0x0000000f (15 decimal).
>
> You can try to change it, reboot and see if it'll lower disk space
> allocation for System Restore... or break your OS.
>
> Don't forget to post back with results.
>
> --
> Alexander Suhovey
>
> "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?
>>
>