chkdsk keeps stealing my hard drive space Vista Bugs and Problems Discuss chkdsk keeps stealing my hard drive space in the Windows Vista forums; Ok first off some specs Vista Ultimate 64 e6600 4 GB ram 2 400GB seagates in raid 0 on a pcix 1x raid card 500Gb seagate as a backup raid ...

[jason131974]

Ok first off some specs
Vista Ultimate 64
e6600 4 GB ram
2 400GB seagates in raid 0 on a pcix 1x raid card
500Gb seagate as a backup
raid has 5 partitions
Local Disc (C 525 MB free of 342 GB

According to TreeSize free c: is only using 49 GB which is about what I had before I ran chkdsk on a restart. Chkdsk subsequently ran multiple times after the initial time and never completed saying something about insufficient disk space for mft. I had freed up space many times and every time i did chkdsk used it up. The last time I had 40 GB free and chkdsk ran after a restart and I diddnt catch it to stop it and now I am left with 525 Mb. Unfortunately my backup image did an auto update and I still have the same problem after a restore. c: is my vista installation partition. How do I get back my lost space? On JKdefrag the lost space was greyed so it meant it was unrecognized. Thanks in advance Jason

[jason131974]

I still have the same problem withe the lost space. anyone have any ideas?? I have lost 295GB on this partition and am missing it. Thanks

[Znod]

Chk Dsk may be creating shadow copies each time it runs. You could manage this process by deleting all but your most current restore point using Disk Cleanup. You could also reduce the maximum amount of space used for shadow copy storage via this read: Reduce System Restore's Disk Usage in Vista :: the How-To Geek.