Why is the free space on my hard drive that is grossly exaggerated amoumt?

An external hard drive

If you have posted all the files in the Recycle Bin, the rest is probably shadow copy Volume. WIndows holds 15% of the volume for this.

You can check the amount of space used with the VSSADMIN command.

Open a command prompt by clicking on start > all programs > Accessories and right click on command prompt, and then click Run as administrator.

Type the following command

vssadmin list shadowstorage

Press enter

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