Unaccounted for used hard drive space.

G

Guest

I've got what seems to be an odd issue with my Vista install.

I'm running Vista Home Premium as an "Upgrade" to an XP Pro machine.

My C: drive shows up in Windows as 69.2 GB with 28 GB free. This is after I
went on a rampage deleting and moving data because I was almost out of space
on this drive.

After getting to this point, I was wondering where all the space is, since I
don't have a lot of apps installed, and I keep almost all of my data on two
other drives. So I started looking at each folder at the root of C: and
can't find nearly 30 GB that windows reports as "full".

Here's what I'm seeing:

C: 69.2 GB

Folders:

Drivers 415 KB
EPSONREG 3.43 MB
NVIDIA 54.1 MB
Program Files 5.04 GB
Program Data 126 MB
pwercmdr 3.03 MB
Users 4.73 GB
Windows 9.20 GB


By my math challenged figuring, there's about 22 GB of space on this drive
that I can't find what it's been dedicated to.

Why? And how can I reclaim that space?
 
C

Cal Bear '66

Is there a windows.old folder (perhaps hidden) from the upgrade?

It can be deleted (after you retrieve any data you want to keep) by using Disk
Cleanup.


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G

Guest

System Restore is off, the paging file is 2.3 GB, and Hibernate should only
be 2 GB since that's all the RAM I have. That still leaves 18 GB unallocated.

The Windows.old folder is on a seperate drive as well.
 

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