Studio 17. I am in such a mess !

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Hi, I’d never used a Dell before until my son got himself a Dell vostro. I loved it so much that I decided to get a Dell too and got a very good deal on second hand studio 17, with Windows Vista operating system.

The problem is that the seller has overwritten windows with a new version leaving all his old software on the computer taking up over 10gbs of memory plus various Trojans and other problems so I decided to try a clean install in order to take off all the rubbish.

I couldn’t do it by restarting and pressing F8 as the repair option was not offered so I tried from the reinstallation disc provided.

I’m the first to admit that I don’t know the first thing about computers and I should have left it well alone

I selected partition 1 for the placement windows .

Everything seemed to go according to plan, both the old versions of windows had gone to be replaced by a fresh new version of windows.

The problem is that now my C drive is showing ; 3.96gb free of 9.99gb

And my D drive ; 166gb free of 287gb

Where did all my memory go and is this permanent??

I’d be very grateful for any advise + feel free to give me a verbal slapping