Windows 10: Change System Protection Max Storage Size for Drive in Windows 10

How to: Change System Protection Max Storage Size for Drive in Windows 10


Information system restore that takes your PC back to an earlier point in time, called a system restore point. This can be handy if your PC isn't working well and you recently installed an app, driver, or update.

Each restore point contains the necessary information needed to restore the system to the chosen state. Restore points are automatically generated when you install a new app, driver, or Windows update, and generated when you Restoring won’t affect your personal files in your %UserProfile% folder, but it will remove apps, drivers, and updates installed after the restore point was created.

You can adjust the maximum disk space per drive used for system protection. As space fills up, older restore points will automatically be deleted to make room for new ones.

This tutorial will show you how to resize the maximum shadow copy storage space used by system protection for a drive in Windows 10.

You must be signed in as an administrator to be able to change maximum shadow copy storage size.


Note Restore points are stored in the hidden protected OS System Volume Information folder in the root directory of each drive you have system protection turned on.

CONTENTS:

• Option One: To Change System Protection Maximum Storage Size for Drive in System Protection Settings
• Option Two: To Change System Protection Maximum Storage Size for Drive in Command Prompt

OPTION ONE [/i] To Change System Protection Maximum Storage Size for Drive in System Protection Settings
1. Do step 2, step 3, or step 4 below for how you would like to open System.

2. Open the step 5 below.

3. Open the step 5 below.

4. Open the step 6 below. (see screenshot below)



5. Click/tap on the System protection link on the left side. (see screenshot below)



6. If prompted by UAC, click/tap on Yes.

7. Under Protection Settings, select a drive (ex: C: ) that you want to change the maximum storage size for, and click/tap on the Configure button. (see screenshot below)



8. Adjust the Max Usage slider to the percentage you want, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)








OPTION TWO [/i] To Change System Protection Maximum Storage Size for Drive in Command Prompt
1. Open an elevated command prompt.

2. Copy and paste the command below into the elevated command prompt, and press Enter. This will show you the current maximum usage size for all drives that have a shadow copy storage space. (see screenshot below)
*Arrow vssadmin list shadowstorage




3. Type the command below into the elevated command prompt, and press Enter. (see screenshots below)

*Arrow vssadmin resize shadowstorage /for=<ForVolumeSpec> /on=<OnVolumeSpec> /maxsize=<MaxSizeSpec>




Note Substitute <ForVolumeSpec> in the command above for the actual drive letter (ex: C: ) that the shadow copy storage is for. This will be the For volume in the results from step 2.

Substitute <OnVolumeSpec> in the command above for the actual drive letter (ex: C: ) that the shadow copy storage is on. This will be the Shadow Copy Storage volume in the results from step 2.

Substitute <MaxSizeSpec> in the command above for the actual size you want.

• The MaxSizeSpec value must be 1 MB or greater and must be expressed in % percentage or one of the following units: KB, MB, GB, TB, PB, or EB. If no unit is specified, MaxSizeSpec uses bytes by default.
  
• If no value is specified for /maxsize, there is no limit placed on the amount of storage space that can be used.

For example:

vssadmin resize shadowstorage /for=C: /on=C: /maxsize=12GB

OR

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









4. When finished, you can close the elevated command prompt if you like.

That's it,
Shawn


Related Tutorials

• How to Enable or Disable System Restore in Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10
• How to Turn On or Off System Protection for Drives in Windows 10
• How to Create a System Restore Point in Windows 10
• How to See List of All Available System Restore Points in Windows
• How to Do a System Restore of Windows 10
• How to Undo a System Restore in Windows 10
• How to Delete System Restore Points in Windows 10
• How to Create System Protection shortcut in Windows 10
• How to Change System Restore Point Creation Frequency in Windows 10
• How to Add System Protection Context Menu in Windows 10

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WINDOWS 10 UPDATE DELETED MY RESTORE POINTS

Hi,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft community.

This issue can be caused if the maximum storage size limit is set to low

for your shadow storage.


To resolve this issue, adjust the maximum shadow storage allocation. To do this, follow the steps listed below:

1.Click Start, type System in the Search

box and then click System from the list under Control panel

2.Click System

protection in the task pane

3.Under Protection Settings click to select Local

Disk (C (System) and then click Configure

4.Under Disk Space Usage, move

the Max Usage slider to the right to increase the disk space usage for System

Restore points

Note: If protection is turned on for additional drives you might consider

increasing the Max Usage for those drives as well.

Thanks.

 

My restore points are being deleted??!!

Hi,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft community.

This issue can be caused if the maximum storage size limit is set to low

for your shadow storage.


To resolve this issue, adjust the maximum shadow storage allocation. To do this, follow the steps listed below:

1.Click Start, type System in the Search

box and then click System from the list under Control panel

2.Click System

protection in the task pane

3.Under Protection Settings click to select Local

Disk (C (System) and then click Configure

4.Under Disk Space Usage, move

the Max Usage slider to the right to increase the disk space usage for System

Restore points

Note: If protection is turned on for additional drives you might consider

increasing the Max Usage for those drives as well.

Thanks.