80 GB of HDD space gone

Hi,

I'm having an issue with my C disk space. I scanned every folder in my C disk even the hidden one's and it ended at 71,4 GB. However my computer says I used 147 GB.

I have upgraded from vista to 7 recently, but that's not the problem because I had the space loss with vista too. When I used this computer for the first time there was some space loss too, is it something the manufacturer used for restoring files?

How can I regain the lost space? and if i can't... knowing what causes it, is good also.

Thank you in advance.



(I'm new to the forum so i didn't know where exactly to put this)

I probably forgot those (mainly because i don't know how to get them).
But I really doubt that those files take up 80 GB of space

Don't forget shadow copies of all changed fiiles.....

Issith said:

Hi,

I'm having an issue with my C disk space. I scanned every folder in my C disk even the hidden one's and it ended at 71,4 GB. However my computer says I used 147 GB.

I have upgraded from vista to 7 recently, but that's not the problem because I had the space loss with vista too. When I used this computer for the first time there was some space loss too, is it something the manufacturer used for restoring files?

How can I regain the lost space? and if i can't... knowing what causes it, is good also.

Thank you in advance.



(I'm new to the forum so i didn't know where exactly to put this)

Do you have a folder called windows.old??????

Do you have a defragger that permits you to visually monitor it's functions? The reason that I ask is because when I had a bad harddrive, it showed a lot of fragmentation that shouldn't have been, and this fragmentation consumed all of what should have been freespace.

If you don't have such a fragger, I would recommend downloading and installing O&O. It's not free but does have a trial period that would permit you to use it in this fashion.

Try this program... CCleaner - Home

Disk management may show you the hidden recovery partition. If you are sure you don't want it and will never use it you should be able to delete it and reallocate the space in there. Run disk cleanup and it will show you the space system restore etc is taking up and will let you free it up.