less HD space after HP system recovery?

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jay thomas

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I had a problem over the weekend on my 6 year old HP pavillion 7955 (1.5G P4, 256MB RAM,40gig HD, win xp service pack 2 -all OEM hardware except for dvd writer)I could not install photoshop cs2, and adobe tech had me uninstall all adobe products and empty all temp folders and run msconfig to turn off all non microsoft software to try to get the photoshop to install-still no luck.after a "sorry" from adobe, I tried to do "system restore" to undue changes, and system restore would not start- it kept giving me an error and telling me to restart. I must have restarted about 10 times and system restore still no go.(this computer is on about once a week) so, in a fit of desperation, I initiated HP's "system recovery" to fix this and other errors.when all was said and done, everything works again, but the available space on my HD is less than it was before( was-35gig total(less ~4gig partition for system recovery) with 10 gig used and 25gig available--now is 35 gig total (same partition size for sys recov.) now 17gig used and 18 gig available-a difference of 7 gigs available! I have searched C drive for the discrepancy(a large file?) and cannot figure out what/where is the problem with the newly used space. anybody got any suggestions? oh yeah, I had to reinstall all of my aftermarket software and XP service pack 2 too-what a pain!
 
did you format/reinstalled windows with the recovery disc? or tried to fix it with the recovery disc tool?

if you formatted/reinstalled, did you do clean one or and upgrade? if you did an upgrade, that is most likely why because it saved all your old stuff. if it was just a recovery tool that you used(im not sure how dell's recovery disc works, but..) maybe the third paragraph of this link can help.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/02/18/020218opfoster.html

dell has a sort-a faq also for it. im not sure which one is it though.
http://search.dell.com/results.aspx...psb=K&snpsd=A&ddate=False&ddays=&df=True&usf=
 
my computer has a partition that has the factory installed OS. the recovery tool reinstalled to "just bought" without removing my data
 
then thats probably why. all your old data are still stored on your hdd, taking up that extra 7gb or whichever it was.
 
but I explorered my whole C drive, folder by folder, and cannot account for the newly used space. there are no really large files that stand out like I would think.
 
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