Where's mah space?

I've been using my desktop (Windows XP) for about 3 1/2 years; I got it from a renter place, so it's really about 4 years old.

The computer runs well enough, but I'm constantly running short of space (anime and porn addiction). I look at the statistics, and the computer can hold about 53 GB. I'm using about 25 GB, counting everything in My Documents and on my desktop (everything I download and make goes in one or the other). I should have about 25 GB of free space, but I only have 10 GB free.

I'm no computer whiz, of course. I just want some answers as to what is taking up all my space and what I can do to get it back.

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that space is used for the ofrmat optins of the hard drive. either that or you have a 15 GB partition that windows isnt reading
(the format might a linux-swap)
just download Knoppix & see if you can see the partition.
www.knopper.net