I have a laptop (although I'm sure these questions are universal, so I'm posting here) with Windows 7 and both a SSD C: drive and 750GB HDD D: drive. I noticed recently that the D: drive seemed to be missing about 100GB of space, and I've just found out that this is being taken up by System Restore. Before I adjust anything to free up some space, I have a few questions:
1) How much space should I set aside on each drive for System Restore? Is there a rule that you should use a certain percentage for each drive? (Currently for D: it's 15%, with a potential maximum of 104.8GB being used.) Or should I go no bigger than a particular amount of space? Should the amount I set aside be in the order of MB or GB?
2) My SSD C: drive is where I keep my OS and system files, along with most programs I use, whereas my D: drive is just for storing my saved files and all game programs (i.e. Steam). Should I bother having system protection turned on for the D: drive at all? Is there any benefit I get out of having it a part of System Restore?
3) Is there a way to delete particular restore points? At the moment I can only find a button to delete all of them. I have two system image points in the list of restore points (from when I was first setting up the computer) and I'd like to delete one of them, along with some older restore points. Will these all automatically get deleted anyway if I turn off system protection on drive D:?
4) The two system images I mentioned are actually stored on an external HDD (F: ). Are they also taking up space on my D: anyway? What the hell would happen if I delete the data off my external HDD, but the image points remain on D:?
That's all I can think of right now. No doubt I will think of more questions later.
I hope I've made myself clear and that there are simple answers to all these questions!
1) How much space should I set aside on each drive for System Restore? Is there a rule that you should use a certain percentage for each drive? (Currently for D: it's 15%, with a potential maximum of 104.8GB being used.) Or should I go no bigger than a particular amount of space? Should the amount I set aside be in the order of MB or GB?
2) My SSD C: drive is where I keep my OS and system files, along with most programs I use, whereas my D: drive is just for storing my saved files and all game programs (i.e. Steam). Should I bother having system protection turned on for the D: drive at all? Is there any benefit I get out of having it a part of System Restore?
3) Is there a way to delete particular restore points? At the moment I can only find a button to delete all of them. I have two system image points in the list of restore points (from when I was first setting up the computer) and I'd like to delete one of them, along with some older restore points. Will these all automatically get deleted anyway if I turn off system protection on drive D:?
4) The two system images I mentioned are actually stored on an external HDD (F: ). Are they also taking up space on my D: anyway? What the hell would happen if I delete the data off my external HDD, but the image points remain on D:?
That's all I can think of right now. No doubt I will think of more questions later.
I hope I've made myself clear and that there are simple answers to all these questions!