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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Good advice, but playing with linux can be hard if you've never done it before. I dont know if the OP has any experience.

Start Menu -> Control Panel -> Administrative tools -> Computer Management. Then in the left window you should see Disk management click on that and it should show all the partitions of the drive. Im pretty sure that a linux partition would show up in there although it might show "unknown" under file system


Also, this program says it will recognize linux and window paritions there is a trial download just install it and see what it finds if the above doesn't work

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/partitioning.html

post back with results im curious