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15gb being used on HD?

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Sniper82

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I have a 30gb HD partition with Vista on it. Says 15gb is being used but when I right click on all folders on the HD and going to properties they only show being 11gb. Where is the other 4gb at?
 
4GB " ASTALAVISTA" Optic Illusion instruction set:

Please, do not disassemble or put on fire.
may leak or explode if exposed to the user.
Dead is inside.
 
The files of the system inside Vista probably cannot be seem by the user's* anymore.

*Probably some hacker is correcting this right now, with some plus advanced new root/spy/virus.
 
System restore takes some space.
So do the pagefile and hibernation files. You can see those, the same as in XP, by changing the folder view options to make the system protected files visible.
 
Originally posted by: Navid
System restore takes some space.
So do the pagefile and hibernation files. You can see those, the same as in XP, by changing the folder view options to make the system protected files visible.
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Yep - system restore + pagefile + hibernation file is at least 4gb combined, and all are hidden.
 
ok thx for the explanation. Looks like I might have to make a bigger partition and redo windows sometime down the road when space starts getting tight but for now I'm not in the mood 😀.
 
ok thx for the explanation. Looks like I might have to make a bigger partition and redo windows sometime down the road when space starts getting tight but for now I'm not in the mood .
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Which is why you shouldn't waste your time, use only as few partitions as you really need.
 
If you do not use hibernation (putting your PC to sleep instead of shutting it down), you can disable it, which will delete the hibernation file. Its size is about the total size of RAM you have in your machine.

If you have a second physical hard drive in your system, you can move the pagefile to it.

These are just options. I am not saying you should do them.
 
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