So I just got a used x60s and for the most part I love it. I've been spending the last couple days doing a fresh install and trying to get the thing set up just right so I can take a disk image and never have to worry about it again. I've had some trouble getting everything just right and getting rid of all the bloat and utilities I won't use, but right now I have one question --
Why is 7.8 GB of my hard drive already full?
I haven't installed any programs yet, and I've uninstalled everything that I knew I wouldn't need. I even deleted several folders from my C: drive that seemed useless (I hope I didn't need them -- one was called I386, or something, and it was like 1.2 GB of .exe's -- I figured they were just installer files). The funny thing is, when I highlight everything (Docs and Settings, Program Files, IBM SHARE, WINDOWS, etc.) on my C: drive and click properties, it says that they total 2.2 gigs, but when I go to properties for the drive, it says 7.8 gigs. What's eating up the extra 5 gigs? I tried doing the same thing with my desktop and the difference was much smaller -- 14.6 vs. 15.2 gigs.
Also, this is my second time doing a full restore b/c last time the system crashed when I was resizing the main partition and I had to start all over. Before it died last time, my c drive was 6.2 gigs, not 7.8.
Anyone know what's going on here? Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions... or links to help me optimize my ThinkPad.
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recovery partition. you can make recovery discs using thinkvantage software (will take up a couple DVDs) after that you can just delete the recovery partition during your new install. The DVDs will contain an image of the factor install.
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System restore is another that can take a lot of space which is always why I turn it off.
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Did you include hidden files and folders when you selected everything?
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I still have 4 gigs to account for and I still don't believe that this is because of the recovery partition. The recovery partition is a different partition and shouldn't take up space on my c drive. Anyone else have any ideas? -
So I'm an idiot. The four gigs are for the paging file and hibernation.
x60s - what's eating up all my hard drive space?
Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by grzzlo, Sep 8, 2007.