External hard drive and Vista

My 360G Seagate external HARD drive appears with 89G exhausted. I haven't saved anything yet and the only things about it are the installation files accompanying matching a few hundred KBs. I should have near the available 360 G set.

What is the problem and how do I do about it?  Thank you

georgesart

I think I can find some possible reasons. Through each file in the drive installed for herself, I came across a huge amount of redundant junk - I call it junk because there are 9 'levels' of history, each with a kind of mirror for the C: drive, but with only random selections nonsense. For example, each level has C:/programfiles, but there maybe 3 files, another 10, etc.. Most is not the story of used recently.

Yesterday, I used Cleanse Uninstaller to uninstall AllMediaGrabber in C:\. He was earlier listed in one of the program files on drive H: so I clicked it and it opens as if I had never uninstalled. I ran Cleanse again using the path H:, he completed the uninstall, I come back and AllMediaGrabber is still there.

I never activated or whatever it is set up so far, so I guess I find better Seagate how to reformat - what happens if a virus gets in there and is the same as tenascious as the simple AllMediaGrabber, I think that would be a bear to manage. I did not sign for all this, I wanted only to additional disk space.

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