Windows 2008r2 sp1 cleanup

Cleared nearly 3 gigs. Thanks a million! I moved that folder to another partition. My server is Windows R2, and is DC. Here's the steps: 1. Logon as administrator. Drive Z is on a different partition.

Create a link for the new folder. Restart the server with Winodws R2 Installation Disk. It will pop up the System Recovery Options window. Select the option "Use recovery tools that can help fix problems starting Windows".

It lists the OS installed on this server. Write down the drive letter. Your C drive may not be C at this time. Mine is drive G. Then click Next. Use Command Prompt. Go to the drive that your OS was installed. And go to Windows folder.

Exit the command windows, and restart the server. Take ownership. And grant administrator to have full control. Restart the server again. And then check which folder has been updated. That means the OS is using the new location.

I get the below error. Please advice. Thanks a bunch! Service Pack Cleanup can't proceed: No service pack backup files were found. Thanks for this! I was searching in vain for compcln. It took close to 20 minutes on my install.

When i try this says same error 87, not recognized in this context. How can i do this then? Ive try to delete some of folder just like that, but didnt work Any suggestion? Last year I wrote a post where I explained what the Winsxs folder was and which were the possible solutions to contain its bad habit of eating free space on your hard drive.

This tool is DISM. Cool news isn't it? Personally I am happy to know that someone at Microsoft has finally decided to make it possible to reclaim a few GBs on the system partition and to partially solve this major bug.

Install Windows Service Pack 1 then Start and elevated command prompt run 'CMD' as administrator and Normally you should have been able to reduce the Winsxs folder size by 1 or maybe 2 GBs, sometimes more. Saved space may vary a lot. I hope this helps. Please let me know how much disk space you were able to free up using the given command. Donations from Plus members keep this site going. You can identify the people who support AskWoody by the Plus badge on their avatars.

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Topic New Reply. November 10, at am Reply Quote. Viewing 2 reply threads. November 10, at pm Monday, September 25, PM. This one might help. I have already gone through that process with no luck. You didn't mention the partition size but it may be too small. I usually do 60 gB Regards, Dave Patrick And that is one of the things that concerns me the most. These systems were provisioned with 80GB drives which seems a bit small to me. They only have basic software installed, i.

This seemed to free up at least a 2GB of space. Edited by sapper12 Monday, September 25, PM. Hi, Just checking in to see if the information provided was helpful.