If anyone can please help me get started with troubleshooting a problem on my son-in-laws Lenovo notebook (Thinkpad T series) running XP Pro SP2 , I'd be most appreciative.

Though I am not a full newbie, he presents me with a problem I had not seen before. Specifically, he is getting a c: drive full message when he tries to download new files on his PC...it contains a 92 gb c: folder which states that only has 242 mb free...but upon checking each folder on that partition, one by one, we cannot find any files/folders causing the drive to be full.

We cannot defrag the drive due to the limited remaining free space.

I am not sure where to start with this...if anyone can please either specify what, if any, additional information would help, or recommend some initial troubleshooting steps, it would be great.

BTW, we have run a couple programs which typically indicate where bloated files are located, but both Sequoia View and WinDirStat seem to show there to be quite a lot of free space.

We did remove temp files, and cleared Explorer's cache.

Thanks so much in advance for any suggestions.

Peter

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