Mysterious mising space

I created a 52GB partition on one of my secondary drives for win 7 and installed sucessfully. However, after the install I only have 20gb of space left. Getting combine info for every folder on the c: drive shows total of 12GB data, i just can't figure out where the missing space is!
Any ideas?

Hi,
you can use WinDirStat http://windirstat.info/ or the trial version of FolderSizes http://www.foldersizes.com/download-folder-sizes/index.htm for a full view of the space used.
Windows 7 hides quite a lot of folders from the user.
Hope it helps
Stefan

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