System Restore on second drive

[ugly_bob]

Is there any point in having this on?
All my applications are stored and run from primary hard drive and second one is just for storing data.
Surely the System restore on my F: drive is just using up 57GB for nothing

[ChuckFickens]

Depends, do you have a system restore CD or a windows CD?

If you don't then that system restore partition may be the only way you could recover your computer if it crashed badly and needed a reinstall.

if you have a restore CD then you could get rid of the restore partition but you would probably have to download a load of stuff to get your system back if you reinstalled from the CD

Errrrr, 57Gb seems rather large for a restore partition! are you sure it's not 5.7Gb

[ugly_bob]

System restore doesn't restore data though does it?

It is 57 GB - it was on max (12%) on a 500GB drive

The System restore is still turned on for the C: drive which is where everything runs from.

[ugly_bob]

OK. Having turned it off, seems it wasn't using any space anyway - Still same amount of free space as before. All space seems accounted for by data