The case of the disappearing disk space
By Simon Bisson & Mary Branscombe in Editorial
Posted in Windows Vista, Storage, Laptop, HP, Microsoft on
Where has 32GB of disk space gone and how do I make Vista give it back, or there’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Comment by justine - June 20, 2008 on 6:49 am
i have Windows Vista Home Basic on my home PC and from a 250GB hard drive - brand new PC before i started using it - i only had something like 232GB available. Its bugged me and if you find an easy solution. My home PC is a Gigabyte put together locally but using Intel, Seagate etc. good components. all the best,
Justine
Comment by - June 20, 2008 on 1:00 pm
Justine; I believe the VSSAdmin commands will work on Home Basic, it’s just the Previous Versions interface you don’t get. Open the command window by right-clicking as described above and type VSSAdmin /? to find out if it’s available; if it is, just follow the instructions to set the volume shadow space to the amount you want to use for it.
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