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10-28-13, 08:38 AM #3
Re: ... you figure it out to late.
To prevent this in the futute, you can get fancy and after a fresh install, boot into another os (e.g. live boot into linux). Make a new partition (e.g. D:\) and move everything thats not C:\windows to it... Then just make junctions in C:\___ to the correlating folders on D:\) This way when you format you just format the c and the junctions (and not actually the files they point to). This way, the only thing that affects your free space is windows updates (which until recently (microsoft finally released a patch that clears up old update installers), did occupy a very large amount of diskspace).
You can always just do the "C's my system drive" without the junctions approach, but there are so many programs that are programmed shitty and forcefully install to C, or programs that make and use temporary files on C and give you no control over this.... So your drive ultimately ends up shrinking in size.
Or Skip all of that and next time you do a fresh install, always grab your ENTIRE C:\user\ME\ folder. Really dont need program files.... most of your actually stuff should be in your user folder...
If you did a quick format though, you can probably recover the files using a program like recova (i think thats it, look on filehippo.com for it).
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