Hi,
Probable causes of the space being eaten up include, but aren't limited to:
- System Restore
- Paging file
- Hibernate file (hiberfil.sys)
That first one especially, due to changes from earlier versions, will
quickly reserve roughly 12% of the available drive space. On a 100GB drive,
that'd be 12GB on top of the 12-14GB that the OS occupies. Add in a program
like MS Office, and it's easy to see where the 30GB went.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help -
www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts
http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
"marcusFZ6" <marcusFZ6@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a new laptop running Vista Prem with a 200GB hard drive split into 2
> 100's. I noticed last night that on the main drive "C" that I have somehow
> filled 30GB of space. The biggest program installed is Office 07. I have
> installed a few bits then removed them going through the control panel.
> How
> do I check to see that all the components have been removed and what else
> can
> I do to see what is using up the storage space.
> Ta Moocho, Marcus