60GB HD, but I only have 9 GB Left?!?

[dcllee]

I have a x41. I have a 60GB HD, but when my computer came, it had about 30GB worth of stuff already installed. Should I reformat the laptop to get rid of all the extra lenovo/ibm software? What do you guys recommend. I have an external drive, but its only to backup stuff.

[Grey Area]

30GB sounds like an awful lot of stuff, there was not nearly as much on my X41, bought in September (but made in May 2005). I mean, the preinstalled software is the same that is stored on the hidden recovery partition, and that one is "only" about 4GB. Or has Lenovo changed/bloated that much in the last months - my software set is still pure IBM?
Maybe you habe a lot of backups on the disk, created automatically by R&R? If so, then that's something that can be cut down a lot, I think.

Björn

[Rovers3]

Check your Rescue and Recovery I bet you have several backups there.
I have alot of Data on mine including several Virtual PC's (yes on a tablet no less) and i still have 19 gigs free out of 60.
Oh and i am running the Lenovo/Thinkvantage software on mine.
Full MS Office Suite, including Visio and One note, Autocad, Solidworks, a SQL server (i leave that off untill i need it) and MS .NET with the MSDN. so go figure....i do not use rescue and recovery myself.

[dcllee]

Thanks guys. That was exactly what was wrong. I deleted the backups and now i have 32gb free!! vs. 9gb. This forum rocks!