Remove back up of defunct PC on external HDD

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  1. Barman58
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    One other thing to check is that there are no partitions on the external drive without an assigned drive letter - these will not show in windows until you assign a letter using Computer Management - Disk management
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  3. Gadgety
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    DavidE, thank you. Yes, it showed that the remaining 142.5 GB was the WindowsImage backup of the current PC. Which was showing as 9GB in Windows Explorer. Thank you Strollin, Barman58 and DavidE for the assistance!
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  4. DavidE
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    You're welcome and glad to hear you figured it out !
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