Need help with my computer

[ahnubis]

So I just got a new dell xps 1730 laptop. 400 GB hd and I only have 4 games installed in the C drive 2 wow's, crisis, and some other game. When I highlight all the folders in my C drive I can only see about 35 GB in all those files, However my C drive tells me that 80 gigs have been used up. I cant for the life of me find out where the rest of the 30-40 gb are used up at.

anyway to find out where the other space went to?

[Enti]

So I just got a new dell xps 1730 laptop. 400 GB hd and I only have 4 games installed in the C drive 2 wow's, crisis, and some other game. When I highlight all the folders in my C drive I can only see about 35 GB in all those files, However my C drive tells me that 80 gigs have been used up. I cant for the life of me find out where the rest of the 30-40 gb are used up at.

anyway to find out where the other space went to?meh You have 320GB left, why worry? =P
I blame formatting!

[ahnubis]

actually only 284 :}

10 gigs for the 2nd partition for the recovery so there is only a total of about 360 Gigs total on the C drive of which 80sih are used up.

[Enti]

actually only 284 :}

10 gigs for the 2nd partition for the recovery so there is only a total of about 360 Gigs total on the C drive of which 80sih are used up.so 284 left, unless you plan on recording the next 3 straight weeks of what you're doing on your comp..
=P

[ahnubis]

damm skippy :}

I want that 50 gigs back :} i need room to fraps and save movies for my Iphone on my laptop.

[Enti]

damm skippy :}

I want that 50 gigs back :} i need room to fraps and save movies for my Iphone on my laptop.should have got a 800Gb drive then! haha, dunno m8, I've never had 50GB of space missing randomily >.>

[spannah]

lol, vista is a pig. I have the same problem sort off. Everytime you install something new, windows creates a restore point, basically a snapshot of what the OS looked like before the install. This obviously takes a lot of disk space since the setting is a % of your system drive total.

In XP you could adjust the amount of space to use through the GUI. In vista, and AFAIK, it is a command line (so much for easy of use).

Actually just did a search, and found this:
http://www.winvistaclub.com/t2.html

and this as well:
http://www.vistax64.com/vista-general/142841-changing-restore-point-settings-files.html

hope this helps

[ahnubis]

So vista takes a % of my HD and saves it for restore points?

that works I guess just wanted to make sure I did not have any big ass files hogging up the hd some where.

[MageaMageb]

So vista takes a % of my HD and saves it for restore points?

that works I guess just wanted to make sure I did not have any big ass files hogging up the hd some where.Yup, that's pretty much it.

Vista automatically creates restore points. Basically, whatever you put in, it's takes and places it in your backup files.

There are options to turn this feature off, if you'd like. I'm sure you could find it in some Vista FAQ's.

I wouldn't recommend it, though. You never know what might happen :S