Why would one partition automatically back up to the other?
Check out a product (free) called CCleaner (ccleaner.com). Use it carefully (though it's hard to mis-use).
SteelAttack said:Why would one partition automatically back up to the other?
I think it's part of Samsung recovery solution, every week or so it auto-backs up one drive to the other. I just don't understand how its managed to take up nearly all of a 250gb drive and how most of the files apart from 10gb are invisible to me.
aspro said:Check out a product (free) called CCleaner (ccleaner.com). Use it carefully (though it's hard to mis-use).
I'm a little wary of using something like that. I have a feeling that this is the result of an official program on the laptop and I don't want to mess with it with another program.
I just read this in the help pages:
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How is this taking up over 200gbs? I just viewed hidden files and there is 54gb so add that to the visible 10gb and it still comes nowhere near 200gb.
- Backing up, your backup software probably saves a history of changes
- If you're backing up the entirety of the C drive, those changes include system files
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Tell me to get back to rewriting this site so it's not horrible on mobileWTF? This is intolerable that a 500gb laptop has 240gb I can't even use.
I just tallied up all the stuff I have on saved, it's about 30gb. So I should have 470gb space free.
I have 117 gb free.
So account system files and what is visibly and invisibly backed up on both drives totals 353 gb? 
What kinda crap is this?
Just found on my big laptop with windows 7 that the backup had eaten up all of the second drive too. I have used 4 gbs of the second drive yet nearly all of the 70gb is used up.
Windows backup is consuming massive amounts of space.
Finally worked out what was eating up the hard drive.
Windows 7 back up finally told me what was going on. Basically it saves, back up image, after backup image, after backup image. I was under the impression that it automatically deleted the older ones but no. It kept stacking them up one by one on one drive till there was no more room and it told me why.
This has happened on two separate windows 7 pcs and if you are using Windows 7 it's likely to happen to you too unless you manage and delete older backups. So, to free up room on your hard drive here is what you do:
- Click the START BUTTON > HELP
- Search for 'windows back up settings'.
- Click that, then 'manage settings/space'
- Choose the option which only keeps the latest back up image and also find the menu on the same page which lets you delete all the old backups at your choosing.
^ That is another reason why Vista is better! 
Good article on windows 7 . I like it. Thanks for sharing this imporatnt information about windows 7.
Glad it helped someone.
EDIT:
Scroll down to my last post. I finally cracked this problem.
I have windows 7.
One of the laptops I have used has a 500gb hard drive split over two drives, 250mb each.
I have never used drive D the second drive. The PC periodically backs up the C hard drive onto the D hard drive. Only now it says that nearly all of the D drive is taken up. When I look at it in Windows explorer the properties say the files on the D drive add up to 10gb, yet on the My Computer page it says that 200gb is used up and that its nearing its limit for data storage.
Even if it was backing up the whole of drive C to drive D, drive C is only 100gb so it doesn't even make any sense.
Help?