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hard drive full BUT i should still have 5 gigs of space

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Hi and thanks in advance for any help
I am getting a message that my hard drive is full, when i click on properties for the C drive it confirms that i am using 29.5 GB of my 30 GB hard drive. BUT when i add up the sizes of all the files on the C drive (including hidden files), it only comes to 25 GB.
Any ideas on why I can't find that missing 5 GB?

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Thanks .... it freed 933.367 Mb for me .... I was looking at 19.07 total available of a physical 20GB drive, of which select all files > properties showed 14.6GB in use (actual), but explorer showed 16.8GB in use ... I'd already purged all the caches, cookies, and temp internet files I could find for both IE and Firefox, so who knows what it found. Glad I looked here, though, that extra gig free is enough to finally defrag. :p
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