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26gb of spaced lost after upgrade
Recently, I upgraded my hdd from 320 to 500gb. I made the mistake of installing aconis which did NOT properly clone the drive, but did create an error with the screensaver starting up. And this error was cloned over to the new drive when cloned with EaseUS Disk Copy. I am now unable to access the original drive cause I tried to find out why I have 10gb less space used then the original drive did.
I tried to repair the screensaver issue (missing msvcr71.dll) by using scannow, chkdsk, virus scans, and a registry cleaner. Found a article for the issue which said to "repair" the OS by upgrading to the SAME version as I have installed. I did so, and it used up an additional 30gb of space on my drive. Does anyone know what would cause this and how I can get that space back? I ran the disk cleaner, and cleaned the system files, but that only cleared out maybe 4gb taking the wasted space down to 26gb.
If it helps, my original drive had Windows 7 Home, and I used the online upgrade to go to Win7 Ult.
The upgrade I did on the new drive I used a Windows 7 Ultimate ISO from digitalriver.