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    Hard drive on XPS M1530

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by bboy1, Jul 6, 2008.

  1. bboy1

    bboy1 Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm kind of lost regarding my 320GB hard drive. It says 217 out of 295GB available for the C drive (77GB used space). But when I go in the C drive and highlight everything and then right click>properties it says 28GB.

    I don't have any other drives or partitions so why is there such a big difference? That's almost 50GB that I don't have yet it's taking space on my hard drive...

    Any ideas?
     
    bboy1, Jul 6, 2008
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  2. tumnasgt

    tumnasgt Notebook Evangelist

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    Try disabling system restore, it will take up to 15% of your HDD (about 45GB) for recovery points. I always turn it off as I back up manually so I don't need windows to do it as well.
     
    tumnasgt, Jul 6, 2008
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    Try Clearing for Temp files using CCleaner or Using Built-in Disk Cleaner
     
    vinumsv, Jul 6, 2008
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    Right clicking and going to properties doesn't count hidden files unless you have set to make them visible in the folder options panel. Hidden files take up a lot of space on your computer. The whole temporary files folder is hidden, as are half of your other system files.
     
    Bauer418, Jul 6, 2008
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    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    Highlighting the folders and clicking properties is not a very accurate way to gauge disk usage.
     
    atbnet, Jul 6, 2008
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