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    Phantom Space

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by tim333, Jun 16, 2007.

  1. tim333

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    I just got an Acer 5610-4648 Laptop from Bestbuy, and so far it seems to be working great...except for one little problem. My C: drive says that It has 40GB free (out of 70GB). When It only has 16GB of material on it (went into the drive, hit ctrl+a, then properties). This leaves 14GB unaccounted for, I have tried every option in disk cleanup, and have defraged, and checked the volume for errors, yet the phantom space is still taken up. I would attribute this missing space to something such as windows installation or something, but I assume all of those files are included in the 16GB, when I selected everything inside the drive. So far I have installed: Adobe PS CS2, Guild wars, firefox, itunes, Microsoft Office Pro XP, and some drives and controls for our network printer (Brother MFC-???) But I have since uninstalled the drivers. Everything seemed to be fine and the drive had about 56GB free, up until yesterday, when I installed both office and the Drivers. Once I noticed the problem I immediately deleted the Printer stuff, as I had to download it online (for Vista) and it seemed kinda wierd anyway. So I don't know what is causing this problem, but If anyone could be of any help I would really appreciate it.
     
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    Edit: almost immediately after posting this, I went on my laptop again (I'm at a desktop) and the harddrive said that I now have 48GB free, which while better still leaves 6GB unaccounted for. Maybe it is just fluctuating in it's space reading? Or is this normal with laptop drives?
     
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    Do you have Vista, because it could be the Recovery Partition that is taking up your space.
     
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    tim333 Newbie

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    ya I do Home Premium, any way to check?
     
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    Um, I am not sure, but I am very sure that is what it is, it sounds about right size wise. I dont have my laptop yet (soon I hope) so I dont know how to access it but I know someone else will know.

    Anyone?
     
    LiveDesign, Jun 16, 2007
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    hoggie old boy

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    i had the same thing but on xp pro.i just turned the recovery down to 3% and wham my free space increased.
    i just right clicked my computer and when't into system restore and turned down the %.
     
    hoggie, Jun 16, 2007
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