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    Missing 50gb of HD Space?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by oryza, Nov 26, 2008.

  1. oryza

    oryza Notebook Enthusiast

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    So when i click on my computer it tells me my harddrive has 200gb of 300gb free, but when i total up all the files inside the harddrive itself i get only 50gb of files (this is including all hidden files and folder)


    system restore tells me i dont have any restore points so where did 50gb go?
     
    oryza, Nov 26, 2008
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    coops45 Notebook Enthusiast

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    operating system? and page file?
     
    coops45, Nov 26, 2008
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    Alex Super Moderator

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    Reduce the size of the recycle bin to 1%
    My vista op system is over 17gb
     
    Alex, Nov 26, 2008
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    mr__bean Notebook Evangelist

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    Right click on the harddrive and then click on properties and go on disk clean up, when it has finished scanning go on the advanced tab, and then click "clean all but the most recent restores" - Vista makes a restore image every time you install a new program, or changed important settings... These soon add up, After a year of not cleaning that on one of my desktops i had built up a 190 GB restore archive.
     
    mr__bean, Nov 26, 2008
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    Alex Super Moderator

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    Hey Bean

    That recovered over 6gb of space for me

    Thanks
    Alex
     
    Alex, Nov 26, 2008
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    oryza Notebook Enthusiast

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    o wow thanks i just gained back 43 gb... jesus...
     
    oryza, Nov 26, 2008
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    mr__bean Notebook Evangelist

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    no problems :)

    The other few GB is probably because of hybernate file ( uses the same amount of harddrive space as the ammount of ram you have installed)
     
    mr__bean, Nov 26, 2008
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    royk50 times being what they are

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    limit the space allocated for windows restore that will fix the issue and you can forget about the issue.
     
    royk50, Dec 31, 2008
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