Thank you Mike, Noel!

Thanks, guys! That was exactly it! I had over 10GB of System Restore files!
I booted into DOS with a floppy and was able to delete about 3.5GB of them,
but even in DOS it takes about 4/5 of a second per file to delete... so I'm
going to be deleting for the next couple of nights, hehe. Is there an
option to disable System Restore anywhere? If so, where is it? (Amazing
side note: The System Restore space slider is still greyed out, but it
moved to the right since I last looked at it. Three notches to the right.
How obnoxious!) I would just like to disable it for a bit until I get this
fully under control. Thanks for your help!

Mike
Mon Dec 01 12:19:28 CST 2003

Thanks for the feedback but why delete from DOS?

My post explained how to solve the problem by renaming the _RESTORE folder
after which you can boot back into Win Me and delete the files from there. I
would recommend you follow those suggestions. Until you do so there is no
point in worrying yourself about system restore not working since until you
have removed the folder you won't get system restore working again.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP
mcmaltby@hotmail.com


Zinguvok <zinguvok@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, guys! That was exactly it! I had over 10GB of System Restore
> files! I booted into DOS with a floppy and was able to delete about 3.5GB
> of them, but even in DOS it takes about 4/5 of a second per file to
> delete... so I'm going to be deleting for the next couple of nights,
> hehe. Is there an option to disable System Restore anywhere? If so, where
> is it? (Amazing side note: The System Restore space slider is still
> greyed out, but it moved to the right since I last looked at it. Three
> notches to the right. How obnoxious!) I would just like to disable it for
> a bit until I get this fully under control. Thanks for your help!

masterprometheus
Mon Dec 01 14:09:24 CST 2003

And if you insist to do it from DOS this time run smartdrv.exe before
starting to delete. But it's easier to do it from WinME.

Good luck
MP
"Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message
news:%2386VveDuDHA.684@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Thanks for the feedback but why delete from DOS?
>
> My post explained how to solve the problem by renaming the _RESTORE folder
> after which you can boot back into Win Me and delete the files from there.
I
> would recommend you follow those suggestions. Until you do so there is no
> point in worrying yourself about system restore not working since until
you
> have removed the folder you won't get system restore working again.
> --
> Mike Maltby MS-MVP
> mcmaltby@hotmail.com
>
>
> Zinguvok <zinguvok@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks, guys! That was exactly it! I had over 10GB of System Restore
> > files! I booted into DOS with a floppy and was able to delete about
3.5GB
> > of them, but even in DOS it takes about 4/5 of a second per file to
> > delete... so I'm going to be deleting for the next couple of nights,
> > hehe. Is there an option to disable System Restore anywhere? If so,
where
> > is it? (Amazing side note: The System Restore space slider is still
> > greyed out, but it moved to the right since I last looked at it. Three
> > notches to the right. How obnoxious!) I would just like to disable it
for
> > a bit until I get this fully under control. Thanks for your help!
>
>

Noel
Mon Dec 01 14:14:45 CST 2003

The website also explains how to rename/delete the _Restore folder, so I'm
not sure where the idea to delete manually comes from?
Whatever - glad to point you in the right direction, Zinguvok!


--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

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"Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message
news:%2386VveDuDHA.684@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Thanks for the feedback but why delete from DOS?
>
> My post explained how to solve the problem by renaming the _RESTORE folder
> after which you can boot back into Win Me and delete the files from there.
I
> would recommend you follow those suggestions. Until you do so there is no
> point in worrying yourself about system restore not working since until
you
> have removed the folder you won't get system restore working again.
> --
> Mike Maltby MS-MVP
> mcmaltby@hotmail.com
>
>
> Zinguvok <zinguvok@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks, guys! That was exactly it! I had over 10GB of System Restore
> > files! I booted into DOS with a floppy and was able to delete about
3.5GB
> > of them, but even in DOS it takes about 4/5 of a second per file to
> > delete... so I'm going to be deleting for the next couple of nights,
> > hehe. Is there an option to disable System Restore anywhere? If so,
where
> > is it? (Amazing side note: The System Restore space slider is still
> > greyed out, but it moved to the right since I last looked at it. Three
> > notches to the right. How obnoxious!) I would just like to disable it
for
> > a bit until I get this fully under control. Thanks for your help!
>
>

Adrian
Mon Dec 01 23:55:04 CST 2003

To disable System Restore go to Control Panel>System>File
System Properties>Troubleshooting and tick the Disable
System Restore box. You will then need to restart. All
checkpoints up to that point will be deleted
automatically, which will take many minutes in my
experience. You can then uncheck the box and restart to
get system restore going again.
>-----Original Message-----
>Thanks, guys! That was exactly it! I had over 10GB of
System Restore files!
>I booted into DOS with a floppy and was able to delete
about 3.5GB of them,
>but even in DOS it takes about 4/5 of a second per file
to delete... so I'm
>going to be deleting for the next couple of nights, hehe.
Is there an
>option to disable System Restore anywhere? If so, where
is it? (Amazing
>side note: The System Restore space slider is still
greyed out, but it
>moved to the right since I last looked at it. Three
notches to the right.
>How obnoxious!) I would just like to disable it for a bit
until I get this
>fully under control. Thanks for your help!
>.
>