Upgrade used 40 gig

[anne]

I did a vista upgrade over xp home. It took 5 goes to get it installed, but finaly it is in and going well.
Before the upgrade the 120 gig hd read 8 gig used.
After the upgrade it reads 46 gig used.
Anyone have any idea why? It must be a false reading.

[Nix]

You say it took 5 goes to get it installed ?

Hopefully you haven't got 4 failed installs cluttering up you HD somewhere in unused folders.

[Steve R Jones]

A typical fresh install of Vista takes approx 20gigs....Odds are you have several Windows.000 type folders...Since you have pleanty of free space left, I'd leave as is till you format again..