I have an Inspiron 8200 with a 30GB hard drive.

 

Previously I had put an image of the hard drive on my machine ( not really wishing to do so) since I have an external hard drive.

 

Today I noticed that in view of the back up, I had only 5GB of free space left.

 

Thus, since I have the backup on an external hard drive, I decided to delete it from my "C" drive.

 

Alas, I received a message telling me the "bqckup was too big to put in the recycle bin - but do I want to remove it anyway?" Naturally (and perhaps stupidly) I did.

 

It now seems that the free space has not increased and I cannot find the 10GB backup file I would like to remove.

 

Suggestions would be gratefully appreciated.

 

Samyankee