Recovering lost GBs or sorting folders on Windows XP Home edition

[Guest]

I downloaded a bunch of video over the last few weeks each time deleting it
after burning it to a DVD. Suddenly my hard drive has gone down about 10 GBs
of free space. I'm wondering if some of the data I downloaded or transfered
to my hard drive is hidden somewhere where I can't find it. I've tried
opening up the folders with the largest amount of MB/GBs like My Documents
but cant find anything unusual. I was wondering if there was a way to sort
files or folders by size or some other way to determine where the extra 10GB
went. I've already down the usual stuff like Disk Clean-up and defrag but
that doesnt even come close.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I downloaded a bunch of video over the last few weeks each time deleting it
after burning it to a DVD. Suddenly my hard drive has gone down about 10 GBs
of free space. I'm wondering if some of the data I downloaded or transfered
to my hard drive is hidden somewhere where I can't find it. I've tried
opening up the folders with the largest amount of MB/GBs like My Documents
but cant find anything unusual. I was wondering if there was a way to sort
files or folders by size or some other way to determine where the extra 10GB
went. I've already down the usual stuff like Disk Clean-up and defrag but
that doesnt even come close.

Defragging a disk does NOT free up space - it merely re-arranges
the various fragments of each file.

Here are a couple of tools that help you find what you stored
on your disk:
DriveUse:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/index.html
Bullet Proof Folder sizes: http://www.foldersizes.com/