WIN 7 Insallation

I just did a clean install on a 128GB SSD. I also installed the normal motherboard and video card drivers but thats all at the moment. I now show 50GB remaining out of 119 (formatted size). So first thing, to my knowledge Win 7 is big but not that big. That is confirmed when I take a look at C: and do a properties on each top level folder. This adds up to be about 15GB which I see on line as about right. So what happened to the other 55GB? Swap space, dump space? In Disk Manager it identifies Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, and Primary Partition (and 100MB system reserve). This led me down the Crash Dump path and that a large 'file' size was allocated but I haven't confirmed it. So before I move on I am wondering what happened. I've built a number of systems but this is my first with an SSD. The boot drive is usually much larger so maybe I never noticed it but with only 128GB it is obvious this time. However, I do not believe it has ever taken up so much space (several other sytems were WIN 7 as I know WIN 7 installation is larger). Any help would be appreciated. G

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