System Restore will be making restore points on a regular basis, which will
account for a lot of that. I think by default System Restore can utilise
15% of your hard drive capacity. Older restore points will get deleted once
it hits that limit.
You can use Disk Cleanup to delete all but the latest restore point from the
'More Options' tab.
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"RAJIV7" <RAJIV7@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a 320GB P4M900M2 hard drive. I am using windows vista Home Premium.
> When I install Vista hard drive capacity came down to 298GB. Then I have
> transferred some files (MP3) from my old computer 20GB. Now my available
> space should be 278GB but for some unknown reason every time I use the
> computer (listen to music, paly DVD) the hard drive space come down. It
> came
> down from 268GB to 236GB then I have deleted all the files I have
> transferred
> 20GB and emptied the recycle bin. But still it shows as 256GB free from
> 298GB. I have done a search but can't find any big files. 38GB missing
> from
> the hard drive. Why does it do this? Is this a problem with my hard drive?
> Please help.
>