*** Unaccountable/lost disk space after installing Windows Updates

I installed Windows XP on an empty (reformatted) 6GB hard drive, installed
MS Office 2000, the MS Office updates, and then installed all the Windows
updates, service pack 2 included.

After doing that the hard drive seems to have only a little over 2GB of
space left (that's what it says when I check its properties, in MyComputer).
However, the Windows folder occupies only 2.2GB, and when I sum up the sizes
all the existing folders (no hiddens ones), I should have rougly 3.4GB of
space left.

Did any one encounter this strange phenomenon? How can I get the space the
back? How come there is a discrepancy between the occupied drive space as
per 'MyComputer' and the occupied drive space when I look at all the
contents?

Please help! I cannot account for 1.4GB, on an already very small drive!

check ur hyberfil and virtual disc size...its listed in the root directory
c:\
"Wladdy" <> wrote in message
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>I installed Windows XP on an empty (reformatted) 6GB hard drive, installed
>MS Office 2000, the MS Office updates, and then installed all the Windows
>updates, service pack 2 included.
>
> After doing that the hard drive seems to have only a little over 2GB of
> space left (that's what it says when I check its properties, in
> MyComputer).
> However, the Windows folder occupies only 2.2GB, and when I sum up the
> sizes all the existing folders (no hiddens ones), I should have rougly
> 3.4GB of space left.
>
> Did any one encounter this strange phenomenon? How can I get the space the
> back? How come there is a discrepancy between the occupied drive space as
> per 'MyComputer' and the occupied drive space when I look at all the
> contents?
>
> Please help! I cannot account for 1.4GB, on an already very small drive!
>