It helped!1. To see the space allocated and used for SVI:
– Open Command Prompt with “Run as Administrator” option
– Type in: vssadmin list shadowstorage
– You will see Used Space, Allocated Space and Maximum Space for SVI
2. To see the restore information stored therein:
– Use in the same console command: vssadmin list shadows
3. To resize the maximum allocated space:
– Type in command: vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=[here add the drive letter]: /For=[here add the drive letter]: /Maxsize=[here add the maximum size]
– E.g., vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=C: /For=C: /Maxsize=4GB
– You will see a prompt confirming resize done
– You can check the status again using the command discussed in point 1 above
4. Just to get rid of the space already consumed, but sticking to the same size of max-size as before:
– Do actions as per point 3 to set the max-size t, say, 1GB
– If you check now, most likely you’ll see that used space is now 0KB
– Do the resize again and set it back to what it was before
– Check your disk space availability in Windows Explorer, you should see the reclaim is done!
I would go one step further and designate a volume for your restore points / shadow copy / pagefile so as to contain it to that space and not use space on the other partitions. Many factory default setups have system restore already configured and set on a certain pre-created volume.
Another Disk Space free-up option is if you have lots of RAM you can also free-up space setting the page-file to set max size of 8GB so that you are not using system managed which can in some situations be a huge amount of space on the System drive in many cases about 1.5X RAM GB.
In the case of laptops another option is not to use hibernation which can use up to your max RAM+pagefile of Disk space for the snapshot of your Laptop operations.
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