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re: Two Gigabytes Missing On My Hard Drive
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 5:16 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kevinh
(232 messages posted)
Possibly the space is being taken up by system restore, the easiest way to see is
to turn restore off and reboot then check the available space again. You could also
try turning on the "show hidden files" option in folder options and seeing if any
large files that were previously hidden appear.
On Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 4:16 am, arthur brogard wrote:
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> I've got a little machine here running winXP and with a little 6Gig hard drive
in
>it. There's very little software in it at all - virtually only one thing, Powerword.
>
>When I go through all the directories and check their size and add up all the figures
>I get a total of 3gigabytes used.
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>But checking drive C: details it reports that 5 gigabytes have been used and there's
>only 1gig (barely) of free space.
>
>I've got AVG on it and Comodo firewall.
>
>Where could the missing 2 gigs be?
>
>regards,
>
>ab :)
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