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June 4th, 2007 10:00

Where the HDD Storage capacity is going

I have a I6400 with 120 GB HDD. As usual with unusable 3 partitions, the only working partition i.e., C (OS) is allocated ~100 GB of the total HD. In the begining It was consuming around 10-12GB and showing remaining ~86GB free space, but suddenly it starts showing that 25GB has been consumed and 75GB left behind free and it goes on to 30/70GB. I have checked total file size including invisible folders that comes to be around 13GB So where the remaining around 17GB is going,, anybody have any idea ??

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June 9th, 2007 23:00

Let me guess: Did you got Vista?
I've heard it reserves a big junk for automatic backup of files.
.. but don't rely on getting back files from this backup. I just was reading in a magazine, that each Vista version makes backup, but the recovery function is not included in the cheaper versions of Vista.

Can't ckeck if this is true or not, since I've decided to get my 6400 still with XP Professional.

Regards,
Andreas.

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June 12th, 2007 16:00

I had a similar problem, and yes it was Vista.  Under disk cleanup, you have another tab "more options."  You have the option to clear all restore points before the latest one.  I did so, and it gave me back 8 gigs (after only having the machine up for 4 days).

June 14th, 2007 13:00

thanks buddy,,, u accuratley pin pointed the problem and i got my ~13gigs back thanks a lot
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