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Why is Windows/NTFS stealing my disk space?

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Faust:
MULTIPLE master file tables, they have backups.  That is probably a good idea, reduces risk etc etc, but metadata shouldn't be THAT big surely?

 
quote:That System Volume Information folder that you can't access is a snapshot of your drive. It is there to protect your data if you have a power failure,
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Um a snapshot of a 15 gig drive would take 15 gig, unless it's compressed (5 gigish i guess?)

theangelofdeath69:
Metadata is stored with your files, so that isn't it.  It doesn't exist without files as it is part of the File Stream.  System Restore does NOT take a snapshot, it merely save "critical" files so you don't screw them up  ;)

Canadian Lover:
FUCK SYSTEM RESTORE!!! It's no diffrent than pressing clontrol+alt+delete Blot if I say so myself.

Refalm:
Windows System Restore takes up to 2 GB. So it's best to turn it off, and it's of course better to delete Windows, which takes up more than 4 GB.

Faust:
For that matter it's pretty funny that hibernate takes up X mb space where X = total mb ram even when it's not in use.   :rolleyes:

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