GDay All,

I made a backup of my Vista installation to my G: drive. This took 40gb of
space which I needed temporarily, so I deleted the windows backup folder
from my G: drive.

Now, I'd like to make another backup to my G: drive, but 'Backup and
Restore' insists that I don't have enough space on the drive, even though I
do. It seems that 'Backup and Restore' has marked the space as used by the
previous backup and it won't give it back!

I have tried doing a 'cleanup' of all restore points/shadow copies on all my
drives, but the problem persists.

How do I resolve this issue?

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Regards
Andrew Mackie

How much free space do you have on your G drive and your source drive(s)?
Also, can you give the exact error message you receive? To my knowledge
Backup does not reserve disk space. I think something else is likely going
on here.

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"Andy" <trumpy81@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:B021DBE8-BC76-4F98-9D98-2F4482742865@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> GDay All,
>
> I made a backup of my Vista installation to my G: drive. This took 40gb of
> space which I needed temporarily, so I deleted the windows backup folder
> from my G: drive.
>
> Now, I'd like to make another backup to my G: drive, but 'Backup and
> Restore' insists that I don't have enough space on the drive, even though
> I do. It seems that 'Backup and Restore' has marked the space as used by
> the previous backup and it won't give it back!
>
> I have tried doing a 'cleanup' of all restore points/shadow copies on all
> my drives, but the problem persists.
>
> How do I resolve this issue?
>
> --
> Regards
> Andrew Mackie[/color]