Says 55gb being used, but can only see 13gb used??

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I was going to clean install XP Pro on a client's computer, and as I was backing up their files (they didn't specify so it's a full C:\ backup) it shows that there is only 15gb of 70gb free. Going in, with hidden files and all admin rights, it only shows there being 13 or so gb being used? I copied all of Local Disk to a separate drive (within my computer, not theirs) and it copied just the ~13gb.
Any reason why more than 40gb of hard disk is missing? I'm sure it's just a two physical partition, 1 for C: and 1 for Restore (it's an eMachines, like a 4gb partition.)
 
Mr. Johanssen said:
I was going to clean install XP Pro on a client's computer, and as I was backing up their files (they didn't specify so it's a full C:\ backup) it shows that there is only 15gb of 70gb free. Going in, with hidden files and all admin rights, it only shows there being 13 or so gb being used? I copied all of Local Disk to a separate drive (within my computer, not theirs) and it copied just the ~13gb.
Any reason why more than 40gb of hard disk is missing? I'm sure it's just a two physical partition, 1 for C: and 1 for Restore (it's an eMachines, like a 4gb partition.)
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Well what kind of backup is this? A backup as in documents, folders, data etc. or a ghost of a drive? It could be the OS install, the programs that can't be transferred, or any games installed.
 
Well. To pinpoint where stuff was (I absolutely needed to backup the Quicken and business files) I just did Properties on the C: drive, to what type of media I could get by with (if under 4.7gb was used, or if I could just use 2 DVDs etc.) It said that there was only 15gb free, so I opened C: (well, it's on my computer now, so it's like F:) and when I'd CTRL+A and goto Properties, It'd only come up ~13gb total. Went to show all hidden files and it rose just barely. I don't need the OS or apps to be backedup, so I just copied the Docs/Settings, and whatever else was on C: (excluding the OS.)
It's not that the backup didn't copy all of the data, it's that there's 40gb of data unaccounted for somewhere.
 
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