service pack 1: where has all the space come from?

I recently installed service pack 1 from windows update. Now, when I go to C
drive properties, I have far more hard drive space than I had before. I store
a lot of layered Photoshop images on a two terrabyte internal hard drive (
drive C ).It is the usual raid stripe array and works very well. Until the
installation I had used about a 1/4 of my drive space; now it shows only
about 1/7. I defrag regularly and keep everything up to date and clean. It is
as though I had deleted a lot of my images, but as far as I can tell they are
all still there. Could it be that windows is giving me false information and
there is less hard drive space than there appears to be? Why would sp1 do
that? Is there any way I can check? I would be very grateful for any
suggestions.

shadow copy

google it!


"vampirelover" <> wrote in message
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>I recently installed service pack 1 from windows update. Now, when I go to
>C
> drive properties, I have far more hard drive space than I had before. I
> store
> a lot of layered Photoshop images on a two terrabyte internal hard drive (
> drive C ).It is the usual raid stripe array and works very well. Until the
> installation I had used about a 1/4 of my drive space; now it shows only
> about 1/7. I defrag regularly and keep everything up to date and clean. It
> is
> as though I had deleted a lot of my images, but as far as I can tell they
> are
> all still there. Could it be that windows is giving me false information
> and
> there is less hard drive space than there appears to be? Why would sp1 do
> that? Is there any way I can check? I would be very grateful for any
> suggestions.

"vampirelover" <> wrote in message
news:7E1291B9-AF2B-4C9E-85A4-...
> I recently installed service pack 1 from windows update. Now, when I go to
> C
> drive properties, I have far more hard drive space than I had before. I
> store
> a lot of layered Photoshop images on a two terrabyte internal hard drive (
> drive C ).It is the usual raid stripe array and works very well. Until the
> installation I had used about a 1/4 of my drive space; now it shows only
> about 1/7. I defrag regularly and keep everything up to date and clean. It
> is
> as though I had deleted a lot of my images, but as far as I can tell they
> are
> all still there. Could it be that windows is giving me false information
> and
> there is less hard drive space than there appears to be? Why would sp1 do
> that? Is there any way I can check? I would be very grateful for any
> suggestions.


Could you possibly have had a few system restore points built up?

I noticed after I installed SP1, it deleted all my restore points except for
the one it created automatically prior to installing SP1.



--
Don

>
>
> Could you possibly have had a few system restore points built up?
>
> I noticed after I installed SP1, it deleted all my restore points except
> for the one it created automatically prior to installing SP1.


I think that's it. I regained 20 gigs of my 250 gig drive after installing
SP1. It could only have been deletion of restore points.

restore points AND shadow copies (old versions of files Vista retains)


"Rach" <> wrote in message
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>
>
>>
>>
>> Could you possibly have had a few system restore points built up?
>>
>> I noticed after I installed SP1, it deleted all my restore points except
>> for the one it created automatically prior to installing SP1.
>
>
> I think that's it. I regained 20 gigs of my 250 gig drive after installing
> SP1. It could only have been deletion of restore points.
>
>
>

Rach wrote:
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> Could you possibly have had a few system restore points built up?
>>
>> I noticed after I installed SP1, it deleted all my restore points
>> except for the one it created automatically prior to installing SP1.
>
>
> I think that's it. I regained 20 gigs of my 250 gig drive after
> installing SP1. It could only have been deletion of restore points.
>
>
>
I just checked my restore points---now I have just two from yesterday,
so as u said, SP1 deletes all others.

Thanks mate. That's the answer.
--
darkvampire


"Don" wrote:

>
>
> "vampirelover" <> wrote in message
> news:7E1291B9-AF2B-4C9E-85A4-...
> > I recently installed service pack 1 from windows update. Now, when I go to
> > C
> > drive properties, I have far more hard drive space than I had before. I
> > store
> > a lot of layered Photoshop images on a two terrabyte internal hard drive (
> > drive C ).It is the usual raid stripe array and works very well. Until the
> > installation I had used about a 1/4 of my drive space; now it shows only
> > about 1/7. I defrag regularly and keep everything up to date and clean. It
> > is
> > as though I had deleted a lot of my images, but as far as I can tell they
> > are
> > all still there. Could it be that windows is giving me false information
> > and
> > there is less hard drive space than there appears to be? Why would sp1 do
> > that? Is there any way I can check? I would be very grateful for any
> > suggestions.
>
>
> Could you possibly have had a few system restore points built up?
>
> I noticed after I installed SP1, it deleted all my restore points except for
> the one it created automatically prior to installing SP1.
>
>
>
> --
> Don
>
>