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    Studio 17 hard drive question

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by AKronie, Aug 28, 2008.

  1. AKronie

    AKronie Notebook Enthusiast

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    So after a few weeks I finally have everything set up, installed and imported into my laptop. So far so good.

    I did a backup last night and noticed that I have 287 gigs used on my 320 gig drive. My personal files, Pictures, Video and Docs only have 123 gigs used. I looked at the size of the other system files on the drive and there only 2 or three gigs.

    So somewhere hidden on this drive is 190+ gigs of something. can anyone shed some light on this?
     
    AKronie, Aug 28, 2008
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  2. Ductapemaster

    Ductapemaster Notebook Geek

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    Try using this program: http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/

    It will show you a graph of how big each of the directories are on your drive. It's a bit hard to explain, but trust me, it'll help you find whatever is taking up all that space.

    Good luck!

    -Dan
     
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  3. Emsley

    Emsley Notebook Enthusiast

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    I think it comes with a 10GB Dell recovery partition on there that you will not see through Windows. I nuked mine out of the box so I don;t remember how large it was.
     
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  4. bigddybn

    bigddybn Notebook Evangelist

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    Make sure you enable "show hidden files and folders" and "show hidden operating system files"

    A typical Vista install comes in at about 15 gig just in the "Windows" directory alone.
     
    bigddybn, Aug 28, 2008
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