How am I missing 35 GB?

[winsev]

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]

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

 

[winsev]

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]

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

 

[winsev]

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

 

[electrotune1200]

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

 

[Carl Lawrence]

I am glad that you fixed that.