invisible 10 gb in windows directory

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I think you might have a 15gig partition set up for
operating system programs, and that is why it is showing
that. See if you have more hard drive letters available
in my computer. You might have to re-partition hard drive
to one if that is what you want...Good luck.
>-----Original Message-----
>ok, 1 day ago i did windows xp pro install on my new
hard
>disk. Had small problems with drive letters, fixed them
>with partition magic (but i messed up there a bit, so i
>did repair on windows xp instaliation), downloaded all
>critical updates, few other things, installed several
>needed programs, like zone alarm, etc.
>Then i noticed that my hard drive has 15 gb used space.
I
>rightclick on windows directory and i see, that it uses
>10.2 gb. i go into this directory, in folder option i
>choose to show all files and folders, then i select all
>files (ctrl+A) and then files->properties. I see that
>whole windows direstory takes up 1.28 gb.
>I ran disk cleanup ~0.5 mb space freed, scandisk - no
>errors, defragmented this disk, but nothing changed.
>
>Ok, i'd it's 40 gb hard disck, so i'm not happy with 1/4
>of its size being used up by invisible files... Any
>advices how to free it up?
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