you lost 30 gig ?!?
just a shot in the dark,
but are you sure that 30 gig isn't due to a different partition?
Go control panel -> admin tools -> computer management -> disk management
and see how many partitions your "disk 0" has (or whatever disk number you've lost the 30 gig on)
I have seen pre-made pc's (dell, packard bell, etc) that have a FAT32 partition not mapped to any drive letters (no idea why)
It might even be 30 gig's of completely unpartitioned space, just sitting there
other than that,
start -> search -> all files & folders
type * in the name field
expand the "more advanced options"
in file type, select "folder"
tick the hidden & system boxes
you can specify a minimum folder size, as well if you want, say larger than 1 gig
click search
then sort by size
see what you get
but chances are if you really can't account for 30 gig, it's unlikely to be a single folder
*edit*
how do you know it's 30 gig, btw
cause you never actually get the space that the disk says it has
on a 400Gb drive, for example, you only really have 370Gb (or there abouts)
it's an underhand marketing ploy (calculating the disk size in 1000's rather than 1024's)
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