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Joleca

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  1. Little hard to do after turning off System Restore and Hibernation and deleting all restore points and Hibernation resources as I previously mentioned doing... At this time there are NO restore points to go back to, and am still missing 30GB of HDD free space. The only option I have other than a complete reformat is to restore back a System Image made just after acquiring the laptop... which is almost as bad.. Will mean re-installing and updating dozens of programs.. copying all documents, images, videos and .pst files to another drive, copying browser settings, bookmarks (approx 40-50GB of data), before attempting image restore, then reloading programs and copying everything back the way it was... In other words, not a quick or an easy task. and only possible on one of the laptops... the other one runs Vista Home Premium (so only file backup, not disc image) and was pre-Service Pack 1 when purchased.. So that means reverting back to original factory image.. re-installing all Windows updates thru Service Pack 1, re-installing all programs, data, etc (more than 1.5 years worth of info)...
  2. Already checked the troubleshooting area of the docs before I posted (after all, that is Plain Common Sense)... There is nothing there that explains how to recover 30GB of missing space... It only mentions that System Restore will create a restore point (which it DID NOT) and that it takes up space... Since this DID NOT happen... how do I go about recovering the 30GB of missing space (yes I know I just repeated myself, but). And, turning off System Restore and deleting all existing restore points, turning off Hibernation and deleting all Hibernation resources did not recover the 30GB that is now missing... Also, had this running on another computer with Vista.. It just finished about an hour ago (again, took approximately 26 hours to complete) and this 2nd computer is also now missing approximately 30GB of HDD free space... It had 134GB free before running Defraggler and now only has 104GB free.. and it too DID NOT create a restore point.. So need to know what's going on here and how to fix this.. 30GB of HDD space is not something to just be able to toss away... This is valuable and needed space that I cannot afford to loose.
  3. I'm running Vista Ultimate, checked System Restore and NO new restore points were created.. (As a previous poster was advised that Vista would create restore points with Defraggler) Before running Defraggler I had 169GB free on the laptop's HDD, after running Defraggler I now have only 139GB free... This is a total loss of "30" GB... Also, this process took "26" hours to complete.. started at 7am yesterday morning (2/17/08) and it completed shortly after 9am this morning... Is this normal??? Since no restore points were created (which would have used only 1-2GB of HDD), how do I recover the 30GB that is now missing without having to re-format the HDD on the laptop and re-install the operating system from scratch along with all data and programs... Needless to say, I'm not a very happy camper at this time... This is a new laptop and just spent almost a month upgrading to Ultimate, upgrading Works to Office, importing all Office data from another computer and installing and updating dozens of programs.... This was not an easy task and a full reformat will strip out pre-installed software and programs that are required for proper operation of many of the laptop's features.
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