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I just bought a new laptop with vista. It has a 140 gb HDD, and only 99gb available. If I go to my C: drive and highlight all the folders, it says there are only 20 gb taken. What happened to the other 20 gigs?

    
Mikea08

eaten eaten eaten

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theresthatguy

So how do I get it back/what's eating it?

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Mikea08

Vista I'm guessing? 20GB is taken up by Vista...

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oscaryu1

I'm guessing part of is a recovery partition that was put on by your company. Do you have like a D drive on there? Google spacemonger it will show you where its all at.. I use it on my servers at work.

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codeman0013

That program is pretty cool, but it just said that i had 18 gigs ofunscannable files. There is a back-up drive, but i think it is free standing because when i change the size, the leftover doesnt go onto my HDD. It's also only like 8 gb, so that still doesnt explain 10 gigs. Thanks though.

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Mikea08

The main reason for the loss of disk space is most likely because of a hidden recovery partition or similar setup. To see if thats the case, launch disk management by going to the control panel, and then administrator tools.

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[-0MEGA-]

Isn't there also the loss because of binary.... my 60GB passport only has 55, so a 140 should have 128. And then Vista takes up some.

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oregon

Yeah the MS 1024k thing will take, um a fair amount away



about 8GB i think wait thats not 20!

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Bootup05

No, I calculated, it should take 12... and Vista is 8. So that makes sense I think.

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