not sure where to put this thread but here goes ?
bought a brand new sony laptop on fri of last week vaio ns series

got it home only to find that the 250gb hardrive was actually 224gb

i knew it wouldn't be the quoated 250 but i though a bit higher than 224 anyways all was cool, set about putting a few programs onto it and doin the windows vista update's as prompted, to my suprise im now down to 170gb after a weekends use ***

all the programs ive installed are reasonably small and i aint got a lot of music or films on it to justify 34gb. ive ran cc cleaner and system mech still no joy.
all ive installed since i got it are
-sony sonic stage (6 albums in the libary)
-cc cleaner
-nero 8 and removed to replace with nero 9 basic version
-avg 8
-vlc media player
-bit torrent stable
-xilisoft video converter
any pointers as to where it could have gone ?
are the windows vista updates soooo large ?
i would like to get to the bottom of this now and do something about it before i get further down the line.
ive burnt off a set of recovery disc's if that makes any differance ?
any pointers welcome
cheers D