I finished my first build a couple of months ago and now that I am over the initial thrill that it booted, my baby is sleeping better and since I have finished SC2's campaign mode I am starting to nitpick and tweak a bit.
My boot drive is a OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTX80G 2.5" 80GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
It works fine as far as speed goes but I am wondering were the space has gone.
Explorer claims I have only 28.6 gigs free
a) Windows 7 says there is 74.4gigs total (I know you lose some space but this seems like a lot of space from 80g)
b) Windows 7 is taking up 15 gigs. I have set my windows protection to only take up 5% which is about 3.7 gigs and is only half full now
c) other than starcraft and some recording software (not big) There is nothing else on this drive
So whats going on here. If I add up all the folder sizes I get from looking at Right click Properties I am not sure what is taking up almost 46gigs. Is there something wrong with the drive, how windows is calculating free space, some hidden files. and why is windows 7 so chunky. I remember years ago in older versions I could go in and erase useless stuff like the japanese language utilities and AMD drivers I didn't need but I wasn't sure what I didn't need in windows 7
thanks all
adam
My boot drive is a OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTX80G 2.5" 80GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
It works fine as far as speed goes but I am wondering were the space has gone.
Explorer claims I have only 28.6 gigs free
a) Windows 7 says there is 74.4gigs total (I know you lose some space but this seems like a lot of space from 80g)
b) Windows 7 is taking up 15 gigs. I have set my windows protection to only take up 5% which is about 3.7 gigs and is only half full now
c) other than starcraft and some recording software (not big) There is nothing else on this drive
So whats going on here. If I add up all the folder sizes I get from looking at Right click Properties I am not sure what is taking up almost 46gigs. Is there something wrong with the drive, how windows is calculating free space, some hidden files. and why is windows 7 so chunky. I remember years ago in older versions I could go in and erase useless stuff like the japanese language utilities and AMD drivers I didn't need but I wasn't sure what I didn't need in windows 7
thanks all
adam