My desktop PC has a problem about recovery. The problem is my recovery partition was 20GB out of 30GB at first (use window 7, 64 bit, ultimate), but after some days it became about 25Gb out of 30GB. And it becomes more and more day by day.
Anybody know why it happened and how to fix it?
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