where has 15gb gone?

sueH

I have an Acer iconia W510 that has 64gb.  When I first had it I checked the remaining space on the disk, and allowing for the apps etc being on there, there seemed to be around 15gb that I can't find what is used for.  I do not partition for another user and now, after downloading some other programmes i.e. MS Office and Thunderbird and Firefox I seem to have less than 20gb free space left.  There is no way that I could have used over 40gb of disk space and have worked out that it must be around 15gb unaccounted for.  Can someone explain please thanks.

sandys

That sounds about right, your 64gb drive will loose about 4-5Gb for formatting the rest will be the OS, recovery and what ever you had put on, not loads of space but been using mine for a few months and still have a good amount free, using cloud services for storage etc you should fine.

sandys

It has all the recovery data on the machine, you can back this up to disc/usb drive once you do this you get an option to delete the data from the drive to free up space.

 

You can also try windows disc clean up, to find this press windows key and then type fre, then click settins on right pane and in the list you should see 'free up disc space by cleaning unessesay files' or something like that, click on that, there will be a list of stuff you can probably clean up with no detrimental effect, just check mine and I have a few  GB of temporary files that can go.

 

Also if you click on the clean up system files in  that tool another tab will appear once it is reloaded with more options, with this you can clear up the windows restore points and shadow copies upto all but the latest.

 

just did mine started with 24.5gb free of 57.5Gb (I guess that is the formatted size)

 

delete shadow copies brought me to 25.2 free

 

and deleting the temporary stuff brought me to 27.8Gb free. Worth doing, you can also uninstalled software and apps you don't use.

sueH

Thank you for this, tho as I said I checked the amount available more or less as soon as I got the new machine and was surprised that that there was only about 25gb of space free.  i thought it might be some sort of recovery partition but that seems to be a lot.  What you suggest is sensible though I haven't had it long enough to have a lot of temporary files etc., etc.

sandys

That sounds about right, your 64gb drive will loose about 4-5Gb for formatting the rest will be the OS, recovery and what ever you had put on, not loads of space but been using mine for a few months and still have a good amount free, using cloud services for storage etc you should fine.