8.1 install eating hard drive space

I just completed a Boot Camp install of Windows 8.1 on a 45gb partition.  I figured this would give me a little extra room to play with.  Immediately after the install I had about 16gb free which was less than I was expecting.  Now, roughly an hour later, it's showing 20mb free.  I haven't installed anything, the space just disappeared.  Any ideas about what's going on?
Thanks

sgginc wrote:
What's this 20 GB all about?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/system-requirements
System requirements
Windows 8.1
If you want to run Windows 8.1 on your PC, here's what it takes:
  Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2 (more info)
RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit) 
Hard disk space: 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit) 
It's wildly inaccurate.
If you wish to check for yourself install 8.1 in a 20GB partition install it with 1 or 2GB of Ram and see how it runs. Then you will 'know', as opposed to 'have read'

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