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December 26th, 2008 13:00
Discrepancy in amount of disk space used
Greetings all!
We recently received an XPS M1530 w/ Vista as a warranty repair for our old Inspiron (thanks Dell). After moving all of the files that I wanted to the new laptop, I noticed that when I click on "Properties" of the hard drive it says that approx 90 GB are being used, but when I click on the individual directories, it only sums up to approx 55 GB. What would cause this large difference? I don't think I'm missing anything significant when I check the individual directories.
Greg
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TheRealFireblad
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December 27th, 2008 02:00
Welcome to the forums :emotion-21:
Hidden partitions? They don't usually amount to anything like 35GB though?
The 'Restore' partition will be in the order of 10GB (although it's likely less than half that is actually used), and the 'EISA Configuration' files partition (for the diagnostics tests) is usually <50MB?
RobinBredin
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December 27th, 2008 06:00
Hi gak27, You can also look at your WINSXS folder. Click Start, Type in the search WINSXS, Right Click, Then Select Properties. You can also reduce the amount of space taken up by Windows restore.
bigbuckaroo
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December 27th, 2008 06:00
System Resore points and Shadow Copies can chew up a massive amount of disk space under Vista. Under Disk Cleanup's Advanced settings there is an option to remove all but the most recent restore point. I have done this in the past and recovered something like 50Gb of HDD space.