I notice that my 45 hard drive on my laptop was 99% full even though I
only had the computer for 3 months. I used treesize utility software to scan
the hard drive. Everything looked normal except for a folder called
"RRbackups". It said access was denied for this folder so it could not
determine its size. The strange thing is that when I looked in my C:\ drive
I did not see that folder even though I have "show hidden files" turned on
nor I could see it from the command prompt.

Few weeks ago I tried to upgrade my xp, sp2, to vista. I did not go too
far before it crashed due to bad CD which I bought from over seas. Since I
new to vista, I am not sure if the "RRbackups" has anything to do with the
the failed upgrade. I really appreciate any suggestions and I realy do not
want to restore the original OS because I have many thing on my computer.


Waiting for your help.

Thanks,

Have you installed Rollback RX?
http://www.horizondatasys.com/169614.ihtml

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dooma wrote:
> I notice that my 45 hard drive on my laptop was 99% full even
> though I only had the computer for 3 months. I used treesize utility
> software to scan the hard drive. Everything looked normal except for
> a folder called "RRbackups". It said access was denied for this
> folder so it could not determine its size. The strange thing is that
> when I looked in my C:\ drive I did not see that folder even though I
> have "show hidden files" turned on nor I could see it from the
> command prompt.
> Few weeks ago I tried to upgrade my xp, sp2, to vista. I did not
> go too far before it crashed due to bad CD which I bought from over
> seas. Since I new to vista, I am not sure if the "RRbackups" has
> anything to do with the the failed upgrade. I really appreciate any
> suggestions and I realy do not want to restore the original OS
> because I have many thing on my computer.
>
> Waiting for your help.
>
> Thanks,

99 percent full
is bad news - real bad
and you will likely incur
a crash pretty soon or even
a hard disk failure if you don't
take corrective action soon.

further, installing anything
more on the disk would
be futile.

firstly, you should boot into
safemode and begin
removing some software
to bring back some disk
space.

pick any software to remove
at this time to uninstall. you
can reinstall it/them at a later
time.

secondly, be sure that
your virtual memory
is set to a max of no
more than 1152.

further, rrbackups may
be taking up the space
and the files may not be
accessible because they
are being protected.

double check at your
computers homesite and
see if this is a factory included
software that you can disable
and uninstall.

based on this:

http://search.live.com/results.aspx?...c=IE-SearchBox

it seems that the program
is designed for os2. if i
am not mistaken this is a
ibm product for a ibm
laptop,

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"Dooma" <nowhere@noway.com> wrote in message
news:uXHST08VIHA.1164@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> I notice that my 45 hard drive on my laptop was 99% full even though I only
> had the computer for 3 months. I used treesize utility software to scan the
> hard drive. Everything looked normal except for a folder called "RRbackups".
> It said access was denied for this folder so it could not determine its size.
> The strange thing is that when I looked in my C:\ drive I did not see that
> folder even though I have "show hidden files" turned on nor I could see it
> from the command prompt.
>
> Few weeks ago I tried to upgrade my xp, sp2, to vista. I did not go too
> far before it crashed due to bad CD which I bought from over seas. Since I new
> to vista, I am not sure if the "RRbackups" has anything to do with the the
> failed upgrade. I really appreciate any suggestions and I realy do not want to
> restore the original OS because I have many thing on my computer.
>
>
> Waiting for your help.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
>

I do not need to roleback since there are many programs that I installed
recently and I do not want to lose it.



"Gerry" <gerry@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:OIYxfJ9VIHA.3832@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Have you installed Rollback RX?
> http://www.horizondatasys.com/169614.ihtml
>
> --
>
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Gerry
> ~~~~
> FCA
> Stourport, England
> Enquire, plan and execute
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Dooma wrote:
>> I notice that my 45 hard drive on my laptop was 99% full even
>> though I only had the computer for 3 months. I used treesize utility
>> software to scan the hard drive. Everything looked normal except for
>> a folder called "RRbackups". It said access was denied for this
>> folder so it could not determine its size. The strange thing is that
>> when I looked in my C:\ drive I did not see that folder even though I
>> have "show hidden files" turned on nor I could see it from the
>> command prompt.
>> Few weeks ago I tried to upgrade my xp, sp2, to vista. I did not
>> go too far before it crashed due to bad CD which I bought from over
>> seas. Since I new to vista, I am not sure if the "RRbackups" has
>> anything to do with the the failed upgrade. I really appreciate any
>> suggestions and I realy do not want to restore the original OS
>> because I have many thing on my computer.
>>
>> Waiting for your help.
>>
>> Thanks,
>
>

Dooma

I was not suggesting that you should use it. If Rollback is installed it
could be responsible for the strange folder you were asking about.
Rollback can also create very large files which leave you with little or
no free disk space.

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Hope this helps.

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


Dooma wrote:
> I do not need to roleback since there are many programs that I
> installed recently and I do not want to lose it.
>
>
>
> "Gerry" <gerry@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:OIYxfJ9VIHA.3832@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Have you installed Rollback RX?
>> http://www.horizondatasys.com/169614.ihtml
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Gerry
>> ~~~~
>> FCA
>> Stourport, England
>> Enquire, plan and execute
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Dooma wrote:
>>> I notice that my 45 hard drive on my laptop was 99% full even
>>> though I only had the computer for 3 months. I used treesize utility
>>> software to scan the hard drive. Everything looked normal except for
>>> a folder called "RRbackups". It said access was denied for this
>>> folder so it could not determine its size. The strange thing is that
>>> when I looked in my C:\ drive I did not see that folder even though
>>> I have "show hidden files" turned on nor I could see it from the
>>> command prompt.
>>> Few weeks ago I tried to upgrade my xp, sp2, to vista. I did not
>>> go too far before it crashed due to bad CD which I bought from over
>>> seas. Since I new to vista, I am not sure if the "RRbackups" has
>>> anything to do with the the failed upgrade. I really appreciate any
>>> suggestions and I realy do not want to restore the original OS
>>> because I have many thing on my computer.
>>>
>>> Waiting for your help.
>>>
>>> Thanks,