how do I manually delete restore points?
I have looked through the knowledge base, but cannot find any answer for my problem and I was wondering if anyone can help me manually delete a restore point? I have a restore point which appears for an old harddrive I no longer have.
Thanks so much,
Phil
Thanks so much,
Phil
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As I mentioned, this is a restore point for a disk that I do not have any longer, but used to have.
so where does this appear ?
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in the DOS window when I list the restore points (vssadmin list shadowstorage). The allocated space for that storage drive (which doesn't exist) is 140GB, and the size of the restore point is 2GB. I assume it won't be growing any larger, but am wondering how to remove any allocated space, and delete the restore point.
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I cannot remove the entry for the allocated space, but I did remove the restore point. I suppose the restore point must have been maintained on my primary drive. Once deleted, my primary drive increased available space by 2GB. As well, seems some primary table maintains information on the allocated space for system restore? I suppose once the feature was turned on, and information was written to the primary table, it cannot be erased. Probably there because I restored from an Acronis image of my primary drive, which contained the information on my previous drive. Of course, if I actually ran system restore, that restore point didn't show, since it wasn't for my primary drive in the first place.
check this article for more
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301224