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Main Forum => Tweaking.com Support & Help => Topic started by: PeterPotus on September 01, 2015, 03:53:11 pm
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Windows Vista - 2.99 Meg RAM- MSI Laptop - Pentium 2 Dual T2410 2.0GHz
Yesterday I had a problem of Free Disc Space mysteriously disappearing.
So I bought Windows Repair Pro and ran it in Safe Mode. I ran only 13 of the repair items as recommended by Spybot.
Now I still have my original problem but I cannot work around it as I can no longer create a restore point and therefore cannot do a Disc Cleanup which I have been doing every few days for weeks.
Having bought the Pro edition I selected the 2 options to run after I did the 2nd Repair run.
The Pro Disc Cleanup inclusion promises a lot but I can't actually get it to do anything.
When I emailed Shane he said to do a full repair in safe mode. Sect 5 will not NOW create a restore point so that is not an option.
Finally I gave up and did a restore of the registry back-up but I still cant create a restore point or do a disc cleanup.
Yesterday I ran ComboFix but its log does not say if it was able to create a restore point. Anyway, I still have my old and new problems.
I need help please. (Sorry I put my first post in the wrong place. Newbie confusion!)
Regards
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Don't worry fellas. The losing free disc space was caused by some damaged clusters triggering auto back-up attempts.
Surprising that chkdsk did not report the problem.
The other problems which started straight after windows repair ran will live on in this computer while I buy a new one.
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hmmmm if you want you can type in this in an administrative command prompts
vssadmin delete shadows /for=C: /all that will delete all restore points
but before you do that try this first so you can view how much space it's taking up on your hdd vssadmin list shadowstorage