Help, what's caused this ?

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I have just installed Windows 7 professional on my new built machine. This morning I have been copying over files and documents from my old OS (win XP on a different drive), to my current OS.

I have another version of windows 7 professional on another hard drive in this machine, but decided to do a clean install on a seperate drive, (the one I am using) after building my computer.

Two things I have noticed.

1) All of the files and documents that I copied to my win 7 OS on this hard drive (C:) were duplicated on my other win 7 OS on drive D: and the documents that were on that OS have disappeared.

2) I was astonished to find that my free hard disk space on C: had suddenly depleted to just 24 GB (on a 250 GB drive with virtually nothing else installed on it.

Then I found this (picture below)

My user profile is using up almost 73 GB of space :eek: . Any ideas what has caused this, and how to reduce the size back to normal please.
 

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My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Self build
OS
Windows 7 professional X 64
CPU
Phenom 11 X 6 1090t 3.2 GHz
Motherboard
Asus Crosshair III Formula 790FX
Memory
8 gb Corsair 1600MHz C9 DDR3
Graphics Card(s)
2 X Saphire HD5770 Vapour X in crossfire
Sound Card
SupremeFX X-Fi
Monitor(s) Displays
Samsung 24" full HD
Screen Resolution
1920 X 1080
Hard Drives
1 X 1Tb Sata HHD
PSU
Corsair TX 650 watt
Case
Antec 902 ultimate gamer case
Cooling
Zalman CNPS 9900
Update:

I have noticed that the documents I have copied has been copied at least 5 times to 5 locations.

Desktop/Libraries/Documents/My Documents
Desktop/Gra/My Documents (twice)
Computer/Local Disk C:/Documents and Settings/Gra/My Documents (twice)

Also all of my downloaded programs have also been copied to two locations.

Desktop/Gra/Downloads
Computer/Local Disk C:/Documents and Settings/Gra/Downloads

The downloads probably take up about 30Gb each so this will be a lot of my used space.
 

My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Self build
OS
Windows 7 professional X 64
CPU
Phenom 11 X 6 1090t 3.2 GHz
Motherboard
Asus Crosshair III Formula 790FX
Memory
8 gb Corsair 1600MHz C9 DDR3
Graphics Card(s)
2 X Saphire HD5770 Vapour X in crossfire
Sound Card
SupremeFX X-Fi
Monitor(s) Displays
Samsung 24" full HD
Screen Resolution
1920 X 1080
Hard Drives
1 X 1Tb Sata HHD
PSU
Corsair TX 650 watt
Case
Antec 902 ultimate gamer case
Cooling
Zalman CNPS 9900
Umm... "C:/Documents and Settings/" is a junction there is nothing there. And Libraries is just a view it doesn't store anything. Did you alter the permissions of the drive or folders in anyway?
 

My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Alienware Aurora ALX R4
OS
Windows 10 Pro (x64)
CPU
Intel Core i7-3930K (3.2GHz - 4.5GHz)
Motherboard
Alienware Aurora-R4 x79
Memory
4x Samsung 4GB PC3-12800 DDR3 (16GB 1600MHz)
Graphics Card(s)
Nvidia Geforce GTX 690
Sound Card
SteelSeries Siberia Elite
Monitor(s) Displays
Dell UltraSharp U3011
Screen Resolution
2560x1600
Hard Drives
Samsung 850 Pro 256 GB, Seagate 1TB Desktop Hybrid HDD, 2x Western Digital 4TB Green HDD
PSU
875W Some Dell PSU <.<
Case
Alienware Aurora ALX
Cooling
Custom Liquid Cooling (EK CPU & GPU blocks) dual EK 480RAD
Keyboard
Logitech G710+ Mechanical
Mouse
Logitech G700s
Internet Speed
Verizon Fios (50 mbps average)
Other Info
Server: Intel NUC D54250WYK: i5-4250U, 16GB, 256 GB mSATA, Windows Server 2012 R2
No permissions were changed, I just changed ownership of certain folders to me so that I could access them.
 

My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Self build
OS
Windows 7 professional X 64
CPU
Phenom 11 X 6 1090t 3.2 GHz
Motherboard
Asus Crosshair III Formula 790FX
Memory
8 gb Corsair 1600MHz C9 DDR3
Graphics Card(s)
2 X Saphire HD5770 Vapour X in crossfire
Sound Card
SupremeFX X-Fi
Monitor(s) Displays
Samsung 24" full HD
Screen Resolution
1920 X 1080
Hard Drives
1 X 1Tb Sata HHD
PSU
Corsair TX 650 watt
Case
Antec 902 ultimate gamer case
Cooling
Zalman CNPS 9900
No permissions were changed, I just changed ownership of certain folders to me so that I could access them.

That is changing permissions. No doubt you opened junction points. Like Documents and Settings.
 

My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Alienware Aurora ALX R4
OS
Windows 10 Pro (x64)
CPU
Intel Core i7-3930K (3.2GHz - 4.5GHz)
Motherboard
Alienware Aurora-R4 x79
Memory
4x Samsung 4GB PC3-12800 DDR3 (16GB 1600MHz)
Graphics Card(s)
Nvidia Geforce GTX 690
Sound Card
SteelSeries Siberia Elite
Monitor(s) Displays
Dell UltraSharp U3011
Screen Resolution
2560x1600
Hard Drives
Samsung 850 Pro 256 GB, Seagate 1TB Desktop Hybrid HDD, 2x Western Digital 4TB Green HDD
PSU
875W Some Dell PSU <.<
Case
Alienware Aurora ALX
Cooling
Custom Liquid Cooling (EK CPU & GPU blocks) dual EK 480RAD
Keyboard
Logitech G710+ Mechanical
Mouse
Logitech G700s
Internet Speed
Verizon Fios (50 mbps average)
Other Info
Server: Intel NUC D54250WYK: i5-4250U, 16GB, 256 GB mSATA, Windows Server 2012 R2
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