Can anyone tell me why my XP system save is taking up all 5 GB's of my partition, but when i look at whats really in the folders, it only adds up to around 1.5 GB's. So where has all the space gone? 3.5 gigs? Someone please tell me how I can recover this space, and clear it up.

Eh... that's XP for ya! Well I just recently install Xp came out to 3.5 gbs Xp like to use alot of space plus if you have updated most of the files with-in XP. I'm thinking the reason that it says 3.5gbs and its only 1.5, uh... Hard Ware swaping of some kind? Sorry i'm not to much help but hope someone else can.

I had a similar problem cos the system resore was using all my space... Have a go at using the system cleanup START>PROGRAMS>ACCESORIES>SYSTEM TOOLS>DISK CLEANUP Get rid of all your temp files and use the option to delete all but your most recent restore point... this will free up loads of space if you have recently been installing your software!!! Clint

You can choose how much space to allocate to System Restore I'm on '98 just now and can't renmember the exact path but someone will soon tell you Lesley

i tryed the disk cleanup and it cleared up about 10 MB's. I am somehow missing 3.5 gb's of space. I have a 5gb harddrive and is full, but only 1.5Gb's of it is actually being used from what I can see. Where did the rest of it go? I dont feel like adding more space to the partition when its already 5 GB's and its only using 1.5 of it. Someone please help me.

To allocate the space for System Restore R.click My Computer - Properties - System Restore Tab Now press Settings and set the slider The default setting is 12.5% of HDD space - Where you put it will depend on the size of you HDD ie 5% of 60Gb is a lot more than 5% of 1.5Gb but you must have it set at least about 300Mb I think that will give you about two weeks worth of Checkponts If you do need to use Sys Rest then you want to go back as near to the present as possible, when your computer was ok -ie yesyerday or the day before - maybe one week The further back you go, the more 'work' you'll have to do afterwrds Lesley

thanks for all the hlep so far, but nothing has worked. NOTHING. man why is taking up so much space? Noone knows? its really baffling me.