Vista - Regaining hard drive space ?

This is an XP question but everyone has been so helpful I thought you
wouldn`t mind . I have taken a bunch of programs off my original 60 gb drive
that came with my Dell 4550 and yet the free space still says 19 gb . Even
after I uninstalled F.E.A.R. it still said 19 gb free and before 24 gb free (
FEAR takes up 5 gb ) . So is it possible to regain disc space ? I know that
simply deleting something doesn`t mean it magically dissapears . I`ve done
disc defragments but I`ve never formatted either of my drives . Any help
would be appreciated ......... Brian

Also , I`ve been accepted into The Chubb Institute taking the year course
on Networking/Security it covers alot of stuff and I should be certified on
about 6 or 7 categories when I`m done Cysco probably being the most important
, now if I can just find $17000,00 laying around I`ll be set :~)

Perhaps your hard drive is divided into several partitions. For example, the
partition that you are looking at might be 40 GB with 19 GB free. Another
thought, have all the files that you deleted been removed from the Recycle
Bin? If not, the hard drive space is still allocated to them.

"Zomby88" <Zomby88@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1A41AAB9-9574-4E28-AEB8-B57C109EDE3B@microsoft.com...
> This is an XP question but everyone has been so helpful I thought you
> wouldn`t mind . I have taken a bunch of programs off my original 60 gb
> drive
> that came with my Dell 4550 and yet the free space still says 19 gb . Even
> after I uninstalled F.E.A.R. it still said 19 gb free and before 24 gb
> free (
> FEAR takes up 5 gb ) . So is it possible to regain disc space ? I know
> that
> simply deleting something doesn`t mean it magically dissapears . I`ve done
> disc defragments but I`ve never formatted either of my drives . Any help
> would be appreciated ......... Brian
>
> Also , I`ve been accepted into The Chubb Institute taking the year course
> on Networking/Security it covers alot of stuff and I should be certified
> on
> about 6 or 7 categories when I`m done Cysco probably being the most
> important
> , now if I can just find $17000,00 laying around I`ll be set :~)

Run the Disk Cleanup tool, shutdown/restart.
..winston

"Zomby88" <Zomby88@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1A41AAB9-9574-4E28-AEB8-B57C109EDE3B@microsoft.com...
: This is an XP question but everyone has been so helpful I thought you
: wouldn`t mind . I have taken a bunch of programs off my original 60 gb drive
: that came with my Dell 4550 and yet the free space still says 19 gb . Even
: after I uninstalled F.E.A.R. it still said 19 gb free and before 24 gb free (
: FEAR takes up 5 gb ) . So is it possible to regain disc space ? I know that
: simply deleting something doesn`t mean it magically dissapears . I`ve done
: disc defragments but I`ve never formatted either of my drives . Any help
: would be appreciated ......... Brian
:
: Also , I`ve been accepted into The Chubb Institute taking the year course
: on Networking/Security it covers alot of stuff and I should be certified on
: about 6 or 7 categories when I`m done Cysco probably being the most important
: , now if I can just find $17000,00 laying around I`ll be set :~)

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:04:03 -0700, Zomby88
<Zomby88@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>This is an XP question but everyone has been so helpful I thought you
>wouldn`t mind . I have taken a bunch of programs off my original 60 gb drive
>that came with my Dell 4550 and yet the free space still says 19 gb . Even
>after I uninstalled F.E.A.R. it still said 19 gb free and before 24 gb free (
>FEAR takes up 5 gb ) . So is it possible to regain disc space ? I know that
>simply deleting something doesn`t mean it magically dissapears . I`ve done
>disc defragments but I`ve never formatted either of my drives . Any help
>would be appreciated ......... Brian
>
> Also , I`ve been accepted into The Chubb Institute taking the year course
>on Networking/Security it covers alot of stuff and I should be certified on
>about 6 or 7 categories when I`m done Cysco probably being the most important
>, now if I can just find $17000,00 laying around I`ll be set :~)

EMPTY the recycle bin to reclaim disk space. If you also have some
half-ass undelete so-called "protection" software like Norton's
protection of the recycle bin or whatever it is called you may have to
disable that or do something before it allows you to empty the recycle
bin.

After emptying the recycle bin, defrag the disk and see what you have.

"Zomby88" <Zomby88@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1A41AAB9-9574-4E28-AEB8-B57C109EDE3B@microsoft.com...
> This is an XP question but everyone has been so helpful I thought you
> wouldn`t mind . I have taken a bunch of programs off my original 60 gb
> drive
> that came with my Dell 4550 and yet the free space still says 19 gb . Even
> after I uninstalled F.E.A.R. it still said 19 gb free and before 24 gb
> free (
> FEAR takes up 5 gb ) . So is it possible to regain disc space ? I know
> that
> simply deleting something doesn`t mean it magically dissapears . I`ve done
> disc defragments but I`ve never formatted either of my drives . Any help
> would be appreciated ......... Brian
>
> Also , I`ve been accepted into The Chubb Institute taking the year course
> on Networking/Security it covers alot of stuff and I should be certified
> on
> about 6 or 7 categories when I`m done Cysco probably being the most
> important
> , now if I can just find $17000,00 laying around I`ll be set :~)