| Re: What is "Reserved System Space" and what can I do with it? |
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Group: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics · Group Profile
Author: Cyril N. AlbergaCyril N. Alberga Date: Mar 19, 2008 10:28
Thank you -- I think... I followed the instructions, there were 12%% of the disk
reserved, and I pushed it down to 1%% (a bit over 1 gig). But diskeeper still
thinks there is a hugh chunk. Do I have to shutdown and restart before I see
the effects?
Cyril
JS wrote:
>> I'm running XP Pro, SP2.
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>> I recently did two things.
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>> First, I took a 250 GByte FAT external harddrive, backed it contents up to
>> another drive and reformatted it as NTFS, then restored the contents.
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>> Second, I installed an incremental defrag program, Diskeeper, on my
>> system. When I looked at the newly reformatted drive Diskeeper reports
>> that over 10%% is "Reserved System Space". This is an order of magnitude
>> more than on any of my other 250 or 300 Gbyte drives, or even my one 500
>> Gbyte drive.
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>> Could this be an error in the defrag program? (The company says no.) If
>> such a large chunk of the drive is reserved does that mean that it will
>> never be used for my data? Is there any way to shrink this allocation?
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>> I hope this is the right place to ask this.
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>> Cyril N. Alberga
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