Windows 7 - How am I missing 35 GB?

**winsev** · 03-04-2010

Windows says I have "238 GB free of 298 GB", but I only can account for at the most 25 GB used in the C: drive.
I did a clean install of Windows 7, cleared the disk space, deleted the windows.old folder, fragmented the hard drive, and deleted that Recovery partition that I didn't need anymore.

**electrotune1200** · 03-04-2010

Did you delete Windows.old from your Disc Cleanup Utility?

**winsev** · 03-04-2010

yeah, I think that's what I did. It looked like it cleared up a lot. something like 30 GB from the old version of Windows. is there some kind of error doing it that way?

**electrotune1200** · 03-04-2010

Go into Disc cleanup and click on the "System Files" tab. Then check all your boxes. See if that makes a difference.

**winsev** · 03-04-2010

thank you, I forgot about deleting the shadow copies from the disk cleanup.

**electrotune1200** · 03-04-2010

You're Welcome. Glad everything is sorted for you.

Carl Lawrence · 03-04-2010

I am glad that you fixed that.