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Hard Drive- 48 GB gone missing! In Any Forum Excluding Discu

Sep 18, 2010 2:57PM PDT

I have a HP Pavilion DV6700 laptop with a 160GB hard drive, running Vista Home Premium SP 2. I received a message that the disk was getting full. When I check in explorer by right clicking Computer and selecting properties I see: Local Disk (C) 2.61 GB free of 100 GB and HP_RECOVERY (D) 1.98 GB free of 11.6 GB. Windows Disk Management confirms these totals as do the freeware programs WINDIRSTAT and SPACESNIFFER. My question is: I expect the sum of (C) and (D) to be close to 160GB, but I am only seeing a total of 111.6 GB; what happened to my remaining 48 GB and how can I get it back?

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Try disk clean up,...
Sep 19, 2010 1:26AM PDT

... including the option to remove all restore points except the last one ...

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What does Disk Management ...
Sep 19, 2010 2:46AM PDT

say about the drive and partition sizes?

If you are not familiar with Disk Management go to Run (Windows key + R) and type diskmgmt.msc -- This command will open the Disk Management tool directly.

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Sep 19, 2010 9:01AM PDT

Thanks Papa Echo and Edward ODaniel- It seems that the Hard Drive is actually a 120 GB model, so it is in fact at capacity. I was under the impression that the drive was larger, but someone pointed out my error. (The PC belongs to my daughter- downloaded iPod videos are the culprits.)

Again, thanks for trying to help and I apologize for for posting needlessly.