X230t with 128SSD, but only 96.1 GB available (and 41.7GB free)??

Hello,
Like the title says, I have an x230t with 128SSD (only programs installed are norton and microsoft office/student ed.) and out of the box only 96.1 GB available. Even worse, of that only 41.7 GB is free.
I have close to 7GB of personal data on here... so what is taking over 50GB of space? also.. how come around 30GB isn't available? (doesn't this seem like too much?)
Thanks

Sorry for my late reply. I just configured a X230t with 128GB SSD and here are my findings about it:
1. the SSD is actually only 119.24 GB due to marketing BS where they claim 1GB is 1 billion bytes instead of 1.074 billion bytes. The end result is that the SSD capacity is actually 7.4% less than advertised. This is something that the HDD/SDD vendors do in their technical specs, and I don't know why.
2. 1.46 GB is reserved as a System Partition, which contains things necessary to boot Windows, do System Restores, and also Factory Recovery.
3. 13.67 GB is reserved for the Factory Recovery partition (Q drive). As I mentioned you can easily recover this space by clicking on the Q drive (after creating your recovery media).
4. 8 GB is reserved for a hibernation partition, for the purpose of 30-day standby. I can help you recover this space if you want.
This leaves 59.9 GB free (of 96.1 GB) on the C drive, which means 36.2 GB of the C drive is in use without any personal data or apps on the system:
a. the "C:\Windows" folder is 15.2 GB
b. the "C:\Program Files" folder is 1.34 GB
c. the "C:\Program Files (x86)" folder is 3.10 GB
d. the "C:\swtools" folder is 4.94 GB
e. the hibernation file (c:\hiberfil.sys) is around 6 GB (assuming you have 8GB of RAM)
f. the pagefile (c:\pagefile.sys) is around 8 GB (assuming you have 8GB of RAM)
a-f adds up to about 38 GB and due to how Windows adds up in-use HDD space, everything is accounted for.
Here are some things you can do to increase free space, if you want to:
1. click on the Q drive, create your recovery media, and then recover the drive space (13.67 GB reclaimed)
2. delete the "C:\swtools" folder (4.94 GB reclaimed)
3. turn off Windows hibernation if you don't use it (6-8 GB reclaimed)
4. delete the hibernation partition if you don't care about 30-day standby (8 GB reclaimed)

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