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Old 09-14-2008   #1 (permalink)


ultimate 64 bit
 
 

guest account took up 60 gb of HD

When i turn on the guest account i lost around 60gb of my hard disk space,when i turn it off,i dont get it back,what can i do to get it back?

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Old 10-06-2008   #2 (permalink)


vista
 
 

Re: guest account took up 60 gb of HD

I just descovered the Guest account is the source of my lost disk space. 39 gig is not available and the system indicates it is in the Guest account. But looking at the details, there is nothing of any magnitude stored in the Guest account.

I'm looking for solutions on how to recover that 39 gig of space.
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Old 10-06-2008   #3 (permalink)


home premium vista (64bit)
 
 

Re: guest account took up 60 gb of HD

not sure if this will help but did you try disk cleanup?

scrooge
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Old 10-06-2008   #4 (permalink)


vista
 
 

Re: guest account took up 60 gb of HD

Yes I did - no luck. Thank you.
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Old 10-06-2008   #5 (permalink)


vista
 
 

Re: guest account took up 60 gb of HD

I discovered that if I delete the folders in the Guest account that I got the space back. Even though the folder did not claim to be that big - when I said delete it recongnized it was much bigger and recovered all the space.
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Old 10-06-2008   #6 (permalink)


ultimate 64 bit
 
 

Re: guest account took up 60 gb of HD

i got fed up i just reformatted my comp.

sigh
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