Hello. I have a 80 GB Playstation 3 that came from the special "Metal Gear Solid 4" system bundle, so it's still a version of the system that is backwards compatible. My question is this: I've accounted for all of the data that I have put on the hard drive (game save info, downloaded games, installed games), and it only comes to 6.01 GB. How come my system says that it only has 55 out of its 74 GB available then? I know that you never get the full "80 GB" when you get a data storage device, but I kinda figured thats why it shows the maximum available as 74. Does anyone know where the other 12 GB of storage went? Any info would be much appreciated. Thanks.

You know when it tells you that you need to use the game with the same DS system after connecting to the WiFi the first time? How does this work with the DSi?

Wow, that sure did it alright. I set it for 10 GB and now I am back up to having 554 GB out of 596 GB available.

What are the benefits of letting it use as much space as it wants? How much do you guys allow it to use? And is there even a way to set it back to unlimited?

Thank you all for your help! I really appreciate it. I am still learning about Vista, and I really had no idea what was making my hard drive disappear like that.

Well, when I enter that command line, it gives me:

"Error: You don't have the correct permissions to run this command. Please run this utility from a command window that has elevated administrator privileges."

I'm on the only profile that I have for windows, and its the system administrator one obviously. What should I do now?

It's windows system restore taking snapshops of your files.

You can limit the amount of space allowed for this by using the following command:

vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=C: /for=C: /maxsize=5GB

Gog

Thank you very much, but I must say, I'm not to sure where to type it in. I can really find what I would consider the cmd prompt like I would use in Windows XP.

Also, if I do this, is it possible to get back the space that Windows is currently using for this? Thanks again.

Hello all,

I recently built a new rig and installed Windows Vista Home Premium (64-bit). I am using a Western Digital Caviar 640 GB 7200 RPM hard drive. It gives me 596 GB to work with.

My question is this: I have 32.6 GB of things currently installed. Its mostly games like Crysis, Half-life 2, Doom 3, and a few others from Steam. I don't have many other programs installed yet.

Every so often though, I'll notice that my hard drive space is less. It'll go down by about 2 GB every so often, sometimes multiple times a day. It tells me that 77.4 GB of space is being used, even though I can only account for 32.6 GB of it! Does anybody know why this is? Is it something that Windows is doing, like the Indexing thing that I know it is set to do? If anyone knows why this is, please help. I plan on bringing over my music library, which is pretty big. I just want to solve the mystery of my disappearing GBs first. Thanks in advance!

And if it matter, my system is as follows:

nVidia nForce 780i motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.16 (running at 3.23)
nVidea GeForce GTX 260
4 GB (2 GB x 2) OCZ Reaper DDR2
Western Digital Caviar 640 GB 7200 RPM

Oh and if it matters, my system is as follows:

nVidia nForce 780i
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.17 GHz
4 GB (2 GB x 2) OCZ Reaper DDR2
nVidia GeForce GTX 260
Western Digital Caviar 640 GB 7200 SATA
Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit

Hello all,

I built a new PC for the first time yesterday, and it was a surprising success. I intalled Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit and have had no problems. My question has to do with my hard drive space. I got a Western Digital Caviar 640 GB hard drive. Once it was installed, it told me that I have 596 GB of space available.

The thing is that it seems like every time I install something, I'm using double the space. I currently have 550 GB free out of 596 GB, and I can only account for 23.25 GB of space being used. It's like I'm using exactly double the space.

I've only installed Windows, the drivers for my various components, and Half-Life 2 with Steam. I just can't figure out where the other 23 GB went. Does Vista automatically back-up everything you install or something?

If anyone has any answers, I would greatly appreciate it. I plan on bringing over music and other stuff from my old computer, and I don't want to eat up all my hard drive space. I'm not too familiar with Vista, so if you can shed some light here for me, that would help a lot. Thanks in advance!

I got mine on launch day with Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Once I got home I also purchased Super Mario 64 on the virtual console.

And on a side note, I bought Yoshi's Island DS at the Best Buy I was waiting outside of the night before. Needed something new to keep my mind off how long I was gonna be waiting :)