I own a Packard Bell PC Intel Celeron with 2.2 Ghz using Windows XP home. My hard disk has 60Gb capacity. It uses NTFS file system.
I had only used 17 Gb up to a week or two ago when i received a balloon warning informing me that my hard disk was full. I checked the disk using "Diskview" and 79% of the capacity was filled with .BAK. This is i am told is a Backup file extension. How has this happened,and how do i recover the 43Gb lost. ?
Any info would be greatly appreciated.
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Jump to Post.bak is the extension used to identify backup files. Is this a single .bak file that is reportedly taking up the space, or multiple .bak files? If it's only a single file, that would almost cetainly point to some corruption with your filesytem; .bak files just simply do not get …
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