Re: Weird Disk Space Issue

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I found out what the problem was. The ThinkPad has a backup utility on it
that apparently ran recently. It backed up the C-Drive to a hidden folder
also located on the C-Drive. I deleted the data out of that folder and now I
am good to go. Thanks.

"Big Al" <BigAl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Corbin O'Reilly wrote:
I have a strange problem with my ThinkPad T61 running Windows XP Pro. The
laptop has a 120 hard drive, the C-Drive is 105 GB where Windows XP is
installed and there is 15 GB ThinkPad recovery partition. Here is the
problem. The other day I noticed I had only 1.5 GB of free disk space
left on the C-Drive. I knew that was impossible. I opened up Windows
Explorer for the C-Drive and added up the space used by all the folders
and files listed on the root of the C-Drive, including the hidden ones.
The total comes to 52 GB being used but Windows says I am using 103.5 GB.
I have no idea where the other 51.5 GB is. It is really strange. I have
never seen a problem like this before. Anyone have an idea what might be
going on here? Thanks for the help.
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