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    Is my harddrive any good?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by JasonHB, Aug 17, 2009.

  1. JasonHB

    JasonHB Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a Dell XPS M1530 with a 320GB HDD. A few months back when I checked how much free space I had left it showed 295GB not 320GB in total. Currently I have 224GB out of 295GB and this doesn't seem right to me because I have nothing on my HDD except for CCleaner and and a few small programs. I figured that so much space was being taken up because when I downloaded Firefox which is 30MB, 10GB was taken off of of my HDD, same thing happens with whatever I download. I have no clue whats going on, I tried everything I know "Dell Factory Image Restore, Clean install of Windows". I ran a full virus scan with Trend Micro and other virus scanners and found nothing. Is it a good idea to replace the HDD, Dell doesn't want to fix it and you guys are my only hope, can anyone help me?
     
    JasonHB, Aug 17, 2009
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    pem69 Notebook Consultant

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    JasonHB Notebook Enthusiast

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    I know, that's not it. When I download 30MB woth of software instead of 30MB being subtracted from my disk 10" GB" is.
     
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    Fragilexx Get'cha head in the game

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    It will also be things like system restore perhaps
     
    Fragilexx, Aug 18, 2009
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    Press the windows logo key and the R key at the same time.
    Type rstrui.exe
    A few secs later after it loads it should show you all the restore points Vista has generated.

    If you don't delete them regularily they can eat up a lot of disk space.
    Well they certainly do in my case.

    Though it doesn't explain why installing firefox is taking such a large amount of space, it might explain where some of your hd space has gone.
     
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    Sorry, you're right. I read too quickly and saw "it showed 295GB not 320GB in total", which I assumed was your problem. System restore is possibly the culprit, as might internet cache (Firefox and/or IE).
     
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    Cool, thanks for the help
     
    JasonHB, Aug 18, 2009
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