Missing Storage?

[diabloplayer75]

Alright, first i'm using Vista on this computer.

Anyways, when i go to computer, it says i have 350/465 Gigs of storage in my C drive, but when i open the C Drive, and highlight everything and check their properties, it only comes up to 54.5 gigabytes of storage. So where is that other 50 gigs going?

I used winrar to open up some files, so i was thinking maybe they were like temporary files somewhere in my computer that i need to get rid of, i'm not sure.

Thanks :)!

[PrOLifIC_onE]

350GB free or 350GB of it is full?

[diabloplayer75]

Originally Posted by PrOLifIC_onE

350GB free or 350GB of it is full?

350 is still free, but it should be 400-410 free for the amount of stuff i have put on my computer.. atleast according to the properties of everything in C:

[Parker]

Try doing this.
Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Disc Management

Check out the Drive, there may be another "Unallocated" 50GB there. If there is, then you can Allocate it or merge it with the maine drive if I'm correct.....

[diabloplayer75]

I still have not resolved this issue, does anybody else have some insight on where my 68 gigs have gone? right now, when i go to computer, it shows i have 335/465 gigs left, however, when i explore C: and highlight everything in the file and check their properties, it says i am only using 61.8 gigs, leaving 68gigs.. lost.. anyone have Any idea?!

[screwballl]

what are you seeing in the disk management that parker mentioned?

[diabloplayer75]

It says everything is 100% working, its all primary partition


Edit: just a side note, it seems the more i install, the larger the gap between the amount of space used, and the amount of space remaining grows.

[theburan]

Did you completely format the drive when you installed vista? If you installed over an old copy of xp, it's possible there's a windows.old file (or something like that), that will have everything from the old install.

You could also try running vssadmin Resize ShadowStorage /For=C: /On=C: /Maxsize=3GB in the command prompt, it should limit the size of the system restore file to 3 gigs.

[diabloplayer75]

Its a new rig so its a new Hard drive and everything..
You think its the system backup that is taking all the space?

[theburan]

I have no idea at this point... that was my only idea.