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My C drive has 20 Gb space and only 12 GB of data in all files. but it shows only 4 GB free. Where is the remaining?
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∙ 14y ago
if you're using Windows Vista with 20GB space, Microsoft recommended a least 15GB of available space. so, 5GB is used for the operating system.
With XP, you only need to have 1.5GB of space available.
Hope this help.
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