Where are all my files?

Soldato
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I'm currently just backing up a system image of my PC to a WD external hard drive, and I am somewhat surprised that my PC has 209GB worth of stuff on it. Baring in mind I have literally just moved 347GB of "files" to said external HD as well.

A little searching around on properties of certain files etc has shown me that I have 20.7GB of programme files, my user file has 68GB of stuff in it of which 23.4GB is music and windows itself on drive C is said to be merely 12.3GB which doesn't surprise me as I'm only using 32-bit windows 7 ultimate and 64-bit you're supposedly meant to leave at least 20GB of free space to install the OS.

What I want to know is, is there any software I can use to show me how big every file on my PC is? Or is there a way of me just searching through the OS to do this? I want to know because aside from the OS, my music and programme files plus give or take about 10-20GB for photo's etc, that still leaves me with about 80GB of stuff unaccounted for and I can't for the life of me think what could be occupying all that space.

Could it be because I updated straight from Vista Home Premium 32-bit to windows 7 ultimate 32-bit? Am I likely to still have vista files clogging it up somehow?
 
Cheers Swordfish, perfect. My lost 100GB is apparently in System Volume Information.

Is that restore points as Crowort says?
 
Ahh brilliant! I see now.

Whats a practical amount of space to allow for system restore realistically then? 20GB tops?
 
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