System Restore Point

[Johnatan56]

Well, I am trying to clean up some machines in my house.

I came across a settings whereby I can change the amount of space that System Restore points can take. On my laptop that was filled without me using any space (ctrl-a of all files with hidden showing was about 115GB while on computer it showed as 450GB space used of 650GB HDD). Seems System Restore was allocated 50% of the HDD wich is insane.

So, to get to the point. I had an old machine of which I put the HDD in this new desktop as a secondary HDD due to needing the info (the old desktop died). I am pretty sure System Restore is also taking 50% of that HDD. Any way of deleting the System Restores? I cannot take control of System Volume information, access is denied even though I am the admin of this machine.

Am going to check if I can boot into the machine using dual bios, will check out the answers on here after.

tl;dr Delete System Volume information of 2nd HDD from old windows machine without formatting.

EDIT: What I've tried, sevenforums tips of rmdir as elevated, powertool 64x and am trying to run the windows partition on the HDD but the bios keeps booting on the main HDD, seems there is a boot override feature I have to deal with somewhere.

 

[agentrfr]

External 2tb drive, copy all, format, copy back.

Dude anything else not worth the effort.

 

[Johnatan56]

External 2tb drive, copy all, format, copy back.

Dude anything else not worth the effort.

Photos and stuff, getting permission for it and have to do it manually. Windows 8.1 and 7 don't really like each other.

EDIT: Was doing that, just problems copying due to write/read permissions.

 

[cpu.]

What about a Live Linux CD/USB (Ubuntu for example). Boot it and delete files, no changes to your current setup.

 

[Johnatan56]

What about a Live Linux CD/USB (Ubuntu for example). Boot it and delete files, no changes to your current setup.

It thinks the HDD is in a saved state or something, doesn't let me mount it except for read only.

 

[LaraC]

Did you try to disable system restore? It will delete the data when you do.

 

[Arthur]

Do a Disk Cleanup. There is an option to clean up all restore points except the most recent.

Don't use other methods.

 

[Johnatan56]

Did you try to disable system restore? It will delete the data when you do.

Do a Disk Cleanup. There is an option to clean up all restore points except the most recent.

Don't use other methods.

Would love to follow your suggestions but having issues booting into that windows partition. It does windows loading and then just crashes and goes to the windows 8 partition. Disk cleanup is useless due to it not seeing the second HDD as a main HDD and not having rights to be allowed to delete that folder or assume rights.

Can't disable system restore on that boot partition, can't get in.

 

[Arthur]

In that case I'd image the drive with Acronis and start again. You can later pull any intact filed off the image.