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post #1 of 5
10/30/07 at 2:15am
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I am totally new to vista and as a result I am just setting up the apps that I have. I have an HP Pavilion tx1210us Entertainment Notebook PC with a 160GB hard drive. The problem is that when I use the explorer to report the drive information, I see that I have used up just about 55gb. When I check the directories individually, they sum to just under 25gb.

Why is there such a huge difference in space consumption calculation? Could it be that the drive is mirrored or something?
Is there a vista tool that can report in detail about the drive usage.
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post #2 of 5
10/30/07 at 8:51am
restore files, volume shadowing, indexing, recovery partition ... these can take a bunch of disk spaces away from what being reported

turn on view of hidden files, u might have a better view

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post #3 of 5
10/30/07 at 10:20am
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Thanks. I have since learnt that what they call a gb is not necessarily a whole gb. This is a good example of people playing the numbers game.

Thanks again.
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post #4 of 5
10/30/07 at 4:23pm
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Originally Posted by henrybg View Post
Thanks. I have since learnt that what they call a gb is not necessarily a whole gb. This is a good example of people playing the numbers game.

Thanks again.
this decribes best the "numbers game"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte
scroll down to "consumer confusion" section

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post #5 of 5
11/15/07 at 3:31pm
Even though all is now well i would recommend a little program called windirstat. It will show you graphically whats taking up what space and combined with Unlocker you can get rid of a lot of annoying stuff.
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