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    Weird HD space issue

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Jake Brown, Mar 12, 2007.

  1. Jake Brown

    Jake Brown Newbie

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    Hey guys,

    I seem to be losing hard drive space when I install and uninstall a game. I had something like 97GB on my E1705 when I installed Titan's quest which was something like 6GB, it took my computer down to an expected 90-91GB. Once I uninstalled the program though it read that I had like 94GB left, these are just rough examples btw I dont remember the exact #'s. So to test I did it again installed it, uninstalled it, did a disk clean up, and had like 89 or so GB left...It seems like Im losing HD space everytime I install and uninstall something and it really concerns me. I have a 120GB HD and have 2 games installed Oblivion, and Dungeons and Dragons Stormreach and it reads that I have 76GB free and of course the 9.99 on my partition....somethings not right?
    Would it be beneficial to completely reformat and get rid of the partition so I know exactly whats going on?
    Also my partition reads 2>9.99 GB...Does that mean I have 2 partitions of 10GB? That would make sense seeing as on first start up when I got my lappy 2 weeks ago the main drive read 99.99GB

    Thanks and I hope you can follow this I dont have exact #'s or examples to go by I just hope someone knows from my vague description whats going on.

    Jake
     
    Jake Brown, Mar 12, 2007
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  2. gusto5

    gusto5 Notebook Deity

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    my computer -> 'right click' on hard drive to properties -> Disk Cleanup
     
    gusto5, Mar 12, 2007
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