Reply #6: The last 2 computers we've bought

[China_cat]

with XP on them have had a partition containing rescue files...which were pretty big. We didn't look at them but I'd bet that there was more than XP files there. We just deleted the whole thing after burning rescue disks and merged that partition with the main. Not only freed up a lot of space but things ran faster, too. Probably everything was being checked against the backups making nothing work the way you want.