Re: How did this happen??!!

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Not sure of what Disk Cleanup will do. Please explain

"riverdogs05" wrote:

> The operative word is non-destructive which I believe makes a new copy of
> things without overwriting the original. Try Disk Cleanup.
> "eepp" <eepp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:9B9E5AE3-9C54-4B7F-B89C-F295ADD6D322@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >I had to perform a system recovery (non-destructive). Everything appears
> >to
> > be fine but now my 150g hard drive is nearly full! I know it was only
> > about
> > 40-50% before I had the crash.
> >
> > How did this happen? How can I get rid of the files that probably got
> > doubled?
> >
> > Thanks for the assistance.
> > HP 370n MCE 2004 XP
>
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