SHERLOCKHOLMES
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Hi Folks:
I hope someone can help me out there. I have Windows Xp installed on my computer. But the trouble is that it occupies almost 11 gigs of space on the 20 gig portion my partitioned hard drive. When I open explorer to check this out; it says that Windows is only occupying around 3.5 gigs of space. Can anybody please tell me what is occupying the missing 7.5 gigs of space and how can I recover this lost space.
I suspect that I may have lost this space over time due to ongoing updates from Windows. Does this make sense to anyone?
When I try to defrag this drive I get a flag that says I only have 11% of free space to work with when I should have around 50%.
I hope I have provided enough information for somebody out there to help.
Thank-you in advance
SHERLOCKHOLMES
I hope someone can help me out there. I have Windows Xp installed on my computer. But the trouble is that it occupies almost 11 gigs of space on the 20 gig portion my partitioned hard drive. When I open explorer to check this out; it says that Windows is only occupying around 3.5 gigs of space. Can anybody please tell me what is occupying the missing 7.5 gigs of space and how can I recover this lost space.
I suspect that I may have lost this space over time due to ongoing updates from Windows. Does this make sense to anyone?
When I try to defrag this drive I get a flag that says I only have 11% of free space to work with when I should have around 50%.
I hope I have provided enough information for somebody out there to help.
Thank-you in advance
SHERLOCKHOLMES