Something the occupation of space on my backup drive

I have a Seagate 250 gig external backup drive.  Once a week I backup data files with the Windows backup of my hard drive on this disk.

When I look at the backup drive in the right Windows Explorer pane or in a utility graph in autonomous areas, only about 57 GB of that drive shows as being used.  (In Solution Explorer, the hidden files are set to display).

Yet when I look in properties, Camembert indicates that 207 concerts are used and only 43 concerts are free.  I had this situation for a short time after I started my backups.  It seems that something is eating about 150 GB of space on my hard drive and I can't.  I see that there are 14 GB to $RECYCLE. BIN but that is not enough to explain the missing 150 GB.  Any thoughts?

Yes, Vista will create a new folder $recycle.bin if you delete it. The Vista Forums tutorial gives more details. You may not even need to reboot, just refresh the desktop.

The Recycle folder was the trash in XP and earlier systems. So, have you used this car with the two systems? If you no longer use XP, I don't think that there will be no harm to remove it. I'll think about it and see if something happens.

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