IBM lenovo, vista laptop

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computetoday

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hey guys,
my IBM lenovo, vista laptop I purchased a few months ago is showing the hard drive 95% full. It's supposed to be a 120 GiG hard drive. There's no way I've filled it.
This is not right. Why would it do that ? Anyone ever see this? Is it easy for me to fix? Thanks for your insight.
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it's system restore. especially if you installed and deleted really large apps. disable it unless you find yourself rolling back many times

also, perhaps there's a hidden recovery partition. this has the manufacturer's VISTA image. if you don't need it you can delete it.
 
dznutz said:
it's system restore. especially if you installed and deleted really large apps. disable it unless you find yourself rolling back many times

also, perhaps there's a hidden recovery partition. this has the manufacturer's VISTA image. if you don't need it you can delete it.
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I wouldn't do that... You may need it.
 
perhaps. but some people made a backup disk or backed up their image onto an online storage and prefer the extra hd space.

for my sony i wiped the contents of the hidden partition and replaced it with an acronis image of a fresh install as sony puts too much bloatware on their OS reinstall disk/partition.

about system restore - i never have any luck with it. the restored programs just doesn't work right for me
 
Hey Dznuts: if I try to do this myself then what exactly would I need to back up on say, a separate hard drive. I'm trying to figure out how big of an external hd I would need to purchase. (the vista is a 105gig).
Thanks for your help, appreciate it very much.
 
I have lenovo Y400, and using it now to post it comment. I do believe that your hard disk partition is not full assign. Check with your nearly computer service if you can do it.
 
Lenovo 3000 N100
ok so I restored it to factory and now have 91 free gigs out of 105. It does have a hidden partition that's where the image is. That's how I restored it without a disk. Now in order for this not to happen again I will be monitoring to see if the restore points back up program will start filling up the HD again, if so I will disable it.
hehe thanks all
 
Ok, so it's been a few days and I've already lost 8 gigs of space but when I check restore points it says there aren't any. So what gives? help?
Anybody?
lenovo 3000 N100
 
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