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Question

memory loss??

Apr 16, 2011 1:33AM PDT

I just got a new Samsung laptop. When I got it ,the C and D drives both had 200GB of memory. Now after amonth the C drive is only showing 99GB of memory. It shows 75GB free of 99GB. What happened????

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Simple. Windows updates are huge and
Apr 16, 2011 1:49AM PDT

There's internet content caching and more. Nothing really new here but have you tried the usual disk cleanups?
Bob

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nice joke there
Apr 20, 2011 5:37AM PDT

Bob, I never thought you had a sense of humor! Not sure where you were going with this?
From what I have seen of the new WIN7 partitions, an example for a 1.5 Terrabyte drive would be:
OS C: 1385.6 GB
Recovery E: 11.57GB
System D: 100 MB

So, I will only ask about the C partition
"The C drive had 200GB of memory. (It's GB's of hard space space, not memory). Now it is only showing 99GB of memory. It shows 75GB free of 99GB."
If the C partition truly had 200 GB of space, and it now shows 75 free, then 125GB of space was used.

The size of the C partition does not change, only the free space. We all understand that as a basic premise.

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Re: loss of space
Apr 20, 2011 5:48AM PDT

Can you tell the details of what Disk Management says about the physical drive?

Kees