Lost hard drive space

Summary:

i tried installing xp, and ended up going back to vista.

Lost hard drive space

BlackLeaf 1207703841|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

i tried installing xp, and ended up going back to vista and now, it says my hard drive is only 119 gigs out of 149.
i looked through my hard drive and discovered a file called windows old.
so i deleted it.
and now i have 124 out of 149.
does anybody know what i did?

Re: Lost hard drive space

sternminator 1255824608|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I have no idea what you did but if you have not already solved this prob. i suggest right clicking on computer(in the start menu)>manage>Disk Management. If your hard drive is not physically trashed or fried you should see it under the section here. If it says Unallocated or free space right click on it and assign it a path. If this does not work then your drive is most likely fried by xp