Help.. Running out of hard drive room

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This morning I took my son's advice and used the Consolidate feature of
iTunes to copy my songs just for iTunes so it could always find them. It
just wouldn't stop. It filled up my hard drive. I have a 80GB internal
hard drive, use WinXP Home, and it normally works fine.

I couldn't even get Windows to load so I used the Safe Mode to delete some
stuff to make room for a normal boot. I rebooted in normal mode and moved
over 11GB of mp3s to my external hard drive. Somehow it only gave me around
8GB empty space. I tried moving my Art folder (about 1.5GB) to my external
drive but it hung up on a file "FW_FW_Bill Gates tribute...". It was of 0
size and wouldn't delete. I was finally able to manually copy that folder
minus "FW_FW_Bill Gates tribute...". to my external drive and in DOS was
able to use remdir/s/q to delete the entire folder on my hard drive. But
that didn't increase my useable internal hard drive space.

I have manually gone through Explorer trying to find too large folders to
delete them but they all seem rather normal.
I have used Properties to monitor my hard drive space and it has
progressively reduce the free space at about 500MB/hour.
My Norton virus scan shows no viruses present.

Help!!

--
Darrell R. Schmidt
B-58 Hustler Web Site URL (below)
http://members.cox.net/dschmidt1/


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