Free Agent 1 TB says no space left on the drive, but only 350 MB of files are showing

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I've been using My Free Agent as a USB file saver, etc., not using the Free Agent Software itself.

I recently used Windows Easy Transfer to port my files over from a Windows XP latop to my new WIndows 7 laptop, following the directions step-by-step. By count, I know there is less than 350 GB of known files or programs on the drive (countiing the Seagate Free Agent Go Flex software), yet the Windows 7 properties say the drive is almost full. How can this be?

 
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THanks. I'm no techie, but how would I determine whether I have hidden files, how many, etc. Than How do I get rid of them? I am only interested in the files I copied over from my laptop, not a bunch of hidden files. When I saved the Windows Easy Transfer file to the HD (that I used to transfer my Files and Settings from my XP laptop to my Windows 7 laptop), it was only about 30GB in size, but I subesequently watched the avaialble HD space shrink and shrink and shrink until there was nothing left. About 600 GB was eventually eaten up. Once I deleted the Windows Easy Transfer file, the 30 GB was freed up and stayed freed up, but whatever invisible files took all the free space are stil there.

Any ideas? Should I just save the files I want to another HD and then wipe the whole drive and start over?

 
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Thanks, I tried that, but no cigar. I had read someting about shadow files, etc, or "super hidden" files and just figured that must be what I am dealing with. So I copied everything (everything visible, that is) off the Seagate Go Flex HD. And then simply nuked everything else by refomatting the drive. Then reloaded the previously visible files that I had copied over myself. Presto! We're cooking with gas now!

Thanks for your help. I think the original culprit was the Microsoft Easy Transfer file, as it had something in there that was self replicating, probably in the User settings. Eventually it just self replicated until the drive was full.
-TBonius Maximus Pontificatus

 
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