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    Hard drive size decrease after Vista 64 bit update.

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by POS1737, Sep 6, 2009.

  1. POS1737

    POS1737 Notebook Guru

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    Recently my brand new studio 17 updated, about a week later I noticed that 50GB had gone missing! I of course called tech support to see if they could help (good luck) after spending hours on the phone they could not really solve the issue, asides from doing a factory reset.

    Now again I am having this issue again, once Vista updated it is slowly eating away hard drive space. There is currently 31.4GB being used (yes, this includes all hidden files) on a 450GB hard drive, yet the system reports only 402 GB free space. Each day it decreases about 2-4 GBs.

    Tech support is blaming the OS, yet they have no soultion for the issue and refuse to call me back at several stated times. It seems to me that Dell has their thumbs up their asses on this one and just puts a band aid on the problem 'Sir you should turn off Vista Updates' ? That is no solution to the problem!

    The computer hasn't been used in a few days, yet it constantly loses GBs each day I check it!
     
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    ATG, Sep 6, 2009
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