C Drive utilisation is very high

[David]

I have a partitioned 120GB hard disk, which originally
was converted from a single partition using Partition
Magic - having reinstalled the XP OS on C and reinstalled
all programs, data etc in other partitions, the C Drive
still shows 27GB utilisation, although adding up the
individual folders shows just 6.4GB of info stored - I
have moved temp/swap files to separate partitions, but to
no avail - I should point out that I have never
reformated the drive(s), and have reinstalled XP at least
4 times (butonly running the installation post booting,
not directly from the CD) after having botched a couple
of program loads - can anyone suggest how I might revert
the utilisation to a more normal level (I was led to
believe XP only need 4-5GB of harddrive) without going
through a complete reformat and reinstallation!

Thanks for any help

Dave

 

[Smile Extender]

Windows XP has system restore feature. I think it can use quite lot of disk
space, which is hidden. If you don't need system restore, you can turn it
off.